Everything Steve Sarkisian said following the Double-OT Peach Bowl win

Texas beat Arizona State on New Year’s Day in a heartstopping double-overtime thriller, 38-31. After the game, a relived Texas Longhorns Head Coach Steve Sarkisian addressed the Media.

Here is everything Sark said after the double-OT win in Atlanta in the Peach Bowl.

Opening statement:

“First of all, hats off to Arizona State, Coach Dillingham. They showed a ton of fight, ton of resiliency. It is a really good football team. And we went up 16 in the fourth quarter and their ability to come back and take this thing to overtime was very impressive. So congratulations to them on a heck of a season and a game played today. As far as our guys go today, not our cleanest game of the year. And that’s okay to say that. But the one thing that I know about our group is when our backs are against the wall and when our best is needed, our best shows up time and time again, and the resiliency that these guys showed today was something as a coach makes you really proud, you know, that we weren’t at our best and felt like an NCAA March Madness basketball game with the swings of emotions and things. But fourth and 15 in overtime to score to come right back and score again, two-point conversion and then a great play by Andrew Mukuba, just proud of these guys, because not every game is going to be pretty and not every game is just going to go exactly how you want it to go.

And there’s going to be plenty of stuff that we’re going to look at this tape and say we gotta do better and be better, but the one thing I won’t have to say is our toughness and fight doesn’t need to be better. And if there’s one thing that you want as a calling card for your team is just that.

So I think it’s a tribute to these guys up here and their leadership and the culture that we have and their ability to stay calm through the storm and execute when like I said when our best was needed.”

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