The Buckeyes' QB said neither team should be thinking about the national title game eight years ago.
What did Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor think his best play was Thursday night in the Buckeyes' 45-7 win over Marshall? A 7-yard pass to backup fullback Adam Homan.
"I was dropping back and I scanned the field through about four checks," Pryor said after the win, "and I looked to see if it was open and I threw it all the way across the field to a checkdown. I think that was my best play."
Bigger throws, like his 65-yard touchdown to Dane Sanzenbacher for instance, Pryor felt he'd done before.
"The long balls, I made them plays a bunch," Pryor said. "But I think the consistency and the throwing the ball accurately, I didn't think I could do that [earlier in his career.] It takes a while to mature and grow into a position."
Pryor showed that by completing 17 of 25 passes for 247 yards and three touchdowns.
Here were some of his other comments after the win.
On the team's progress
"I wouldn't be too happy yet. Let's see what we do next week. I'm looking forward to the chance to play Miami, because I want to see how good we really are."
On a rematch of the national title game from the 2002 season
"I wasn't that big an Ohio State fan, I didn't really watch it. I wasn't really a fan of anything really. ... I'd be lying if I said I watched it.
"If that's what they want to use for revenge, that's eight years ago. Times have changed. You come and play this game. You can't look back, you've got to look forward. ... I don't know how they're feeling, maybe they are, but I doubt they are. I think they want to come in and make a name for themselves. Why would they want to come back from eight years ago and try to pick up from they should have won? It's a game of inches, it's a game of mistakes. So whatever happened, happened then. I think coming next in nine days we've got to make something happen and they've got to make something happen, so neither of us should worry about the 2002 game."
More on Miami
"It's a major statement for both us and them. It's a big confidence builder. I think they'll come in fired up, we'll be fired up, Coach Tressel will have us ready. I'll have the offense ready and I know the defensive guys will make sure the defense is ready.
"We're going to be ready to go, I promise you that.
On the offense against Marshall
"We didn't run many of the plays, really. We were very vanilla. There wasn't a lot of plays that we ran, [it was] a lot of the same plays, very vanilla plays, very easy plays that we practices. We didn't use everything that we needed to use so we could use them on Miami."
On the left knee brace he wears after getting that knee scoped in the offseason
"I don't know how long I'll wear it. As of now it's not holding me back too much at all. Running it obviously slows me down though. But it's nothing I can't handle."
On a showdown of Heisman candidates with Miami QB Jacory Harris
"I mean, I can't speak for him. I'm going to play my heart out. Every time I get on the field I want to win for the seniors on this team. I know when I'm a senior next year I wouldn't want to lose either. That's how I'm looking at it. My time is coming soon, too, someday.
"We want to be talked about for a long time. [Miami is] going to be good. It's going to be a fight, it's going to be a brawl, we're going to have to scratch, we're going to have to claw, but if that's what we have to do to get a yard or an inch, that's what we've got to do."