I'm really comfortable at either position. The guard and the center communicate every play. They basically have the same blocking schemes. Regardless of which one I play, I feel comfortable and ready to play.

(The offensive line) is responsible for the (defensive) line and linebackers,

The special thing about it is it's a prime-time game. You get so many vacation days, so you might as well use one on this game. It's as good of a reason as any.

We feel like the guys we have out there all can play, so we can rotate them in and out, keep them fresh line our defense does,

What happened last year is State made great plays and we made a lot of mental errors and helped them make great plays. We can't help them. We know they are going to make plays, we just can't aid them in the process.

What Ohio was doing to bother us was nothing we haven't seen before. They had a nice timed blitz with the free safety that led to a couple of the sacks. There was no panic at halftime, but I think we all knew it was time to get it together.

We have a guy hurt, but I think we also have some young guys who are ready to play who haven't gotten the nod yet.

My memories were of our offense kind of being in disarray.

If a free safety hits the line on the run, we're not necessarily responsible for the free safety. Sometimes it was good defense, but there may have been a few plays here or there where we missed a guy or something.

Man, I'd like to lose about 50 pounds.