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the physical toughness to put every- thing as one." fensive end Kapron Lewis-Moore … On the defense giving up its first Notre Dame fifth-year senior de- offensive touchdown since Purdue: "You've got to believe in the system, and everyone does believe in the system. Everybody is 100 percent in. People are going to get their points in, you just have to stick together. We've got great leadership on the sidelines, and we just stuck together and got the win." On the defense's performance: Notre Dame senior tight end Tyler Eifert … On relationship with junior quar- terback Tommy Rees: "He trusts me that I'm going to get open, and he'll throw the ball on time. I was open so he was throwing me the ball. I don't know what the reason is [for being targeted by Tommy]. I like it. I like being targeted more. I'm just happy we got the win." On helping the team: "You have "We've got to stop shooting our- selves in the foot. We had a defen- sive holding and some other stuff that kept the ball moving forward. Nobody panicked, we just kept the energy up." Notre Dame fifth-year senior cen- ter Braxston Cave … On the performance in the first to do whatever you can to help the team win. Whether it's throwing and catching passes or blocking, you have to do your job the best you can. You have to do what you got to do to get the win." half: "We needed to execute and quit stopping ourselves, because that's all that was keeping us out of the end zone." On Notre Dame's offensive line: "Those guys bared down, gutted it out and grinded through it. We knew it was on our shoulders whether we were going to win the game or not. Guys just made it happen." On the performance of senior running back Theo Riddick: "When you've got a guy out there that is grinding out every inch, doing what he can for his team, that gets every- body going." touchdown for BYU: "Our defense is full of people who have stamina. We're like dogs out there. We just keep going and going and going un- til we can't fight any more. We just kept going and kept fighting for each other. We kept believing and making plays for each other and came home with a victory. "We had to fight through adversity. had a really good game plan … BYU is a good team. They've won some- thing like 20 games in the last two years. That's crazy. A lot of people think, 'Oh, it's just BYU,' but BYU is a really good team." On the defense after the first sive end Stephon Tuitt … On defending against BYU: "They Notre Dame sophomore defen- BYU scored on us, the first in a long time. We came out pretty sluggish, and they capitalized on it."