Cal Head Coach Justin Wilcox
Thoughts on the game's final play (two-pointconversion):
"I felt like it was the best chance for us to win the game. Based on what was happening, that was the best chance for us to win. We had a good play and we had been doing good things offensively, really most of the night other than the turnovers."
 
If the two-point conversion shows your belief in the team:
 "Yeah, I do believe in them. I told them, if it was a different style of game, it might have been a different decision.  Based on the overtime, I love our team,  how they compete. We didn't play well enough, especially on defense to win the game today. We had our opportunities and battled back. We were down at half, went and battled and found some stops. Our offense did a nice job all night, really staying in rhythm. The turnovers were huge, but I thought they [the offense ] did a nice job. At the end of it there, that was our best chance to win. You can dispute it, but I would do it again."
 
General thoughts on the offense's play-calling:
 "I think they did a great job of that. I think it was execution and being in good rhythm. Great job by the offensive coaches preparing them and those guys understand the looks. I think they did a nice job running the ball, throwing the ball, having balance and guys making some contested catches. There's going to be some plays on offense that we look at on the tape and one play here or there can make a huge difference in the game.  Obviously on defense there is a lot of those too. But I was proud of how the guys on offense competed and played hard -- they do every week. We just have to play better."

Cal Players
Ross Bowers, QB
On Two-Point Conversion Attempt:
"We had a little pump and go to our third receiver. I thought I could maybe get around the edge and run, and at the last second I threw it. It was just unfortunate that they made more plays than we did. On that play it kind of showed what the whole game was like.

"I liked the match-up I had. It's something we work on. Looking back, I wish I probably would have thrown it a little sooner and give [Jordan Duncan] a better chance instead of having him try to make a crazy catch. But the linebacker made a great play. It's just unfortunate."

"If I throw a perfect ball and he catches it, we're celebrating."

On Matt Anderson's Field Goal:
"That just shows you how much we trust our kicker. It was a far kick. It was unfortunate we didn't get that conversion on third down. We were rolling so I was ready to go for it if Coach wanted to, but he obviously made the right decision. He kept giving us more chances to win and we just didn't capitalize on it tonight."

Patrick Laird, RB
On his play at the end of the game, after trainers helped him on the field:
 "I just had the wind knocked out of me pretty bad, so I decided to stay on the ground and catch my breath. The trainers came and got me and after a couple of minutes I was good to go."
 
On his number of carries in the game:
"We never have a set number of carries or targets that we discuss before game in our game plans. You kind of feel things out during the game and see what's working and I think that's what we did today."
 
On how do the players feel when your coach shows confidence in the offense (two-point conversion)
"I'm glad that he has a confidence in us. I think that's just a decision that we were going to have to go for two on the next one, so strategically it's just smart to go for two right away. I appreciate it as an offensive player that we have a chance to win the game."

Vic Enwere, RB
On the touchdown run in the second overtime:
"It was mainly just a will play. They brought everyone down. They knew we were going to run it. We knew we were going to run it. It was one of those things, playing for each other, playing with all the guys around me, all week, all game, they do it all for me, so I wanted to return the favor. On Coach Wilcox being aggressive and going for two in the second overtime: I'm a player and I let him make that decision. But I do like it. That says he has confidence in us. As a player, you can respect that. He can look you in the eye and say I believe in you. That's a lot and I appreciate that."

Jordan Kunaszyk, LB
On Arizona QB Khalil Tate:
"He's a really good player, really fast, really explosive. We missed a couple of plays on him and he made us pay for it. Credit to Arizona. Credit to him. They're a really good team and unfortunately we came up short. On the Cal defense's improved play in the second half: We didn't make many adjustments. In the first half, we just gave up some big plays. It was nothing that they really did. It was more so what we did, missing assignments, missing tackles, eye discipline, little stuff like that. He made us pay for it. That's what good teams do. The second half, we stuck with the game plan. We made a few minor adjustments."

Arizona Head Coach Rich Rodriguez
General Comments:
"We've had some crazy games against Cal. I had a feeling this was going to be another one, this being their homecoming and two teams that are trying to get some respect and get noticed a little bit. There were a lot of different things going on tonight when you talk about guys going down, going into overtime. But the difference at the end just came down to making plays. Getting those three stops before [the final play] was huge. It's a different philosophy whether you go for two or not. They had a good play called. We just had a freshman step up and make a big play."

On Cal's Third-Down Conversions:
"I was frustrate lot of those were third-and-sevens, third-and-eights. It was really frustrating and we'll watch the film. Those third down conversions were just killer. We need to be better than that."

On Khalil Tate:
"Khalil is a great competitor. He made some big time plays but there were also some plays where his inexperience showed a little bit. He'll grow from this and there are people that are going to run plays differently and play Khalil differently.  As we grow in our offense with him, he'll get more comfortable doing certain things and I've got to help him calling plays too that aren't always the same."