USC Head Coach Steve Spurrier:

Opening Statement:

"The headline in the Florida paper should read, "Guess who's pulling for Auburn now."

"We got some extremely good breaks. Every long pass the other team makes goes off their fingertips. Tucker's interception."

"I'm just proud of the guys, proud of the way they played. It was like all the other (wins) except we were ahead at halftime."

"I knew it would be a tough second half. Florida was tough running the ball. They just about ran out the clock in the fourth quarter, helped us out."

"One of our goals was to beat one of the big three, and we've beaten two of the three. To beat these guys for the first time is neat."

"I love the Gators, I always will. But I am with South Carolina now."

"I told you we had a lot of history we could set here. I didn't think we would set this much this year."

"It was not a lot of coaching today. Just a lot of good running, blocking and tackling."

"Sidney's catch was a huge play. It got us down to the one after they had cut it to one point. That's just the way it's been going for the Gamecocks."

"It's more fun (winning) when your team is not a dominating team. It's neat the way our guys are winning. We are defying logic. We are not good running the ball and we are not good stopping the run. But the defense has kept guys to kicking field goals."

"We tried to low key it, tried not to overhype it. We are not going to overhype next week. I hope we can play batter than today."

"They didn't want to man up on Sidney. They played a lot of zone."

"Mike had some good solid runs."

"Florida is good at knocking the ball out, and we played with no fumbles. We did a good job of taking care of the ball."

"They played a lot of two-deep stuff with six or seven on the line of scrimmage, so we felt our best chance was to run and not throw."

"I left (Florida) to go somewhere else. I didn't leave to come here. Three years later, this was the best place for me. I hope they will see it that way. Twelve years is enough."

"We gave up some rushing yards, but our guys toughened up."

"We got fortunate on that last call. Who knows what Leak could have done in the last minute."

"I'm not worried about any bowls. We're just going to play Clemson. They are a very good team."

"We love playing here. We are undefeated in garnet jerseys, so we will be wearing garnet jerseys next week."

USC Player Quotes:

Josh Brown:

"It is the biggest win since I've been here. It's just great to be able to look back in a few years with my teammates and know we won we beat Tennessee and Florida and we are going to a bowl game - that's history. You can look back on it later in life and have those great memories."

Chris Tucker:

"Dustin (Lindsay) tipped the ball and it fell right into my hands. I thought I would just go and see how far I could get with it. I just kept running because I knew that Ko Simpson and Lance Laury were in front blocking for me. I then cut back to the left to try to score, but then I ran out of breath.  We practice that in practice, but as far as running that far - I wasn't really prepared to run that."

"After we started playing a month ago we started getting more confident with each game. We beat Tennessee and that was a big win. But beating both in the same year - that's a really big win. Coach Spurrier makes us feel more confident. We play all four quarters because we believe."

Blake Mitchell:

"I knew coming in today we could win this game if we came out and played. I knew we had a chance, but we had to keep it close. If things fell our way, we thought we could get the win. Not many quarterbacks that played here can say they beat Florida and Tennessee. That's a good start to things."

"This win is part of the foundation of what we are building on. In the future we are going to have some pretty decent teams. We continue to work hard and believe in ourselves and believe we can do it. We knew if we had some close games we could pull it out and we have."

Florida Head Coach Urban Meyer: 

On the game-"I think the one drive where we had second down-and-one and we had two back-to-back penalties it knocked us out because we were moving the ball fairly well. I think it's the first time all year we have not created a turnover and we had one. Obviously that's a credit to them to take care of the football like that."

On Sidney Rice-"We think he's an excellent player. He still had his catches but like other teams did, Arkansas did a decent job putting two guys on him. We zoned off against him and also had some bracket coverage for him."

On South Carolina Rushing-"We think he's an excellent player. He still had his catches but like other teams did, Arkansas did a decent job putting two guys on him. We zoned off against him and also had some bracket coverage for him."