Here are a few of the most important quotes of the day from the assistant coaches:

AKRON HEAD COACH TERRY BOWDEN

"(I am) anxious to play this game. Like I said, Tuesday press conference, we have kind of put the last one behind us and been working on this one for a couple of days. You can't start too early when you are going down to play Tennessee. This is a really good football team. They have a much improved football team from last year. They played their biggest rival in a critical game where they lost (eight) in a row and they lost a tough game in the second half. Things just went wrong, back-to-back-to-back, and it got away from them real quick. With 3 1ÂŽ2 minutes left in the third quarter they were winning the football game. They are a very talented team. We have not illusion; we believe always that we could win this football game. You don't have to talk about once in a decade or once every ten years - it is every week. Whether it be Louisiana-Monroe or Western Kentucky, a team beats another team that they are not. We'll get them ornery, and that's how it's going to be. We just have to take them the way we get them.

"Everything was going well until the third quarter, they were up by seven with about 3:30 left and they had some defensive breakdowns, Florida had some skill people that made some big plays and (Florida's) quarterback did a great job as well and made a huge play on a touchdown pass that was just phenomenal and got them back in the game. Will Muschamp was one of my graduate assistants at Auburn, so I am always anxious to watch him go."

"There's just too many cases to show guys. We're not talking about being the one big win this decade. We're talking about the one upset this week. There will be one. If we go do our jobs, everything else would have to fall into place."

"He really gives (Tennessee) a chance. He has that NFL arm and size. He really gives them a chance to get very good on offense, when they mix that play-action pass and running attack."

CORNERBACKS COACH DERRICK ANSLEY

"That starts in practice on Monday. We are putting guys in a position to make plays and giving everyone an opportunity to go out there and compete during the week. So whoever comes out of the week making the most progress and are the best at those positions, those are the guys that are going to see the bulk of the reps. But there is a good chance that a lot of the faces we haven't seen, we will see this weekend."

SPECIAL TEAMS/TIGHT ENDS COACH CHARLIE COINER

"I wouldn't say common things. Something here, high snap here, maybe the ball's not down fast enough here, head pulls up here. It's a three-man operation, and when they're all good they all reap the benefits, and when one of them is bad, it's not good enough. "

"I don't know that the confidence is ever going to be there until they get out there on Saturday night or Saturday afternoon and they do it. It all goes back to the beginning. When you turn the lights on and you go out there and perform the way you're supposed to perform, whether you did it in practice or not, that's when the confidence will come. They've got to go through that out here, and they have to get good enough, and do it the right way enough, and make sure they get to the game, that they are out there. When they get to that point, where they are out there during the game and all that other stuff doesn't matter, they'll make kicks. As they make kicks, they'll become more confident and it'll be a cycle of going that way, instead of the way it is right now. It ties into what I just said. I've been a baseball player before and I've had the `yips' before and you wonder why you can't throw the ball from second to first. It starts here, it's obviously not a physical thing. I go back to if it's the `yips' and it may be, how do you get out of it? You get out of it by blocking out everything except the technical stuff that makes you good. You do it over and over and over again. Then once again, you go back like a golf swing, you start seeing the results, and then you get in the main theater, and they turn the lights on and you do it that way there. That's where the confidence comes from. If you want to get out of the yips, you have to block out the negative and get the positive. Before you get the positive in your head, is by doing it right out there."

"It's hard to say. The quarterback position and the kickers and guys that are out there, in a role to where everyone thinks they know what they do. It's that one guy that you don't notice, you don't notice the left guard or the two techniques quite as much, and all you see is a result there. But when the quarterback takes the ball and drops back, you're like `I know what's supposed to happen here, I've seen the good happen.' Kickers do the same thing. I believe that with the public knowing or feeling like they know exactly what should happen here, it's a lot of pressure on them. But once again, how do you handle that? You have to block that stuff out. They're in a very magnified, very specific thing, that people are looking at them and evaluating them every time they step out there. That's not how good we are."

SAFTIES COACH JOSH CONKLIN

"You've got to adjust some things. You have to keep it, maybe a little more simple. You have to simplify things, or at least you have to simplify how you teach it. You use less words, make sure what you're giving them are correct words. Get them out there and make sure they understand what they are going to see. Like you said, [Akron] has a very explosive passing attack. It's going to be controlled, it's going to be short, but they do a great job of getting the ball out and they do a great job of running routes. It's clean. It's crisp. We're going to have to be right on this week when we get out there."

"They have to be exclusively interchangeable. They have to be, like I've said before, you have some body types that have to adjust to the strong safety or the free safety a little bit better, but you have to be interchangeable and they have to be exclusively interchangeable, so we put those two guys out there, left and right, and there's a formation when they play on either side."

RUNNING BACKS COACH JAY GRAHAM

"I think we did some things good, but there are still things to work on. We could still be more physical and punching and doing those things. The IDs were good, I thought for the most part we got better with pass protection than the second week. We just have to continue to improve."

"They have some linebackers that will get after you. They play a defense where they have a lot of guys in the box, they are aggressive and you can see the effort is there. They will chase you down and pursue you from behind. They have a good defense."

WIDE RECEIVERS COACH DARIN HINSHAW

"Not doing anything different. The ball was a little awkward on one of the drops. The ball was a little low on the other. It was right in that area down here where you have to flip your hands quickly. The ball was on him fast, he dropped the ball and it would have been a big play in the game."

"It's really tough. I was really proud of the guys on Saturday. Justin Hunter, Cordarrelle Patterson and Zach Rogers played a lot of snaps and they went out there and did a good job. The bottom line is I have to roll guys during the game and get young guys in the game, get them in there and trust them."

DEFENSIVE LINE COACH JOHN PALERMO

"I thought what McCullers did the other day was outstanding. I thought he handled the middle real well for us. He made two or three big tackles and probably the most impressive play was down the field when he caught the quarterback from behind. So he is headed in the right direction but he still has a long way to go."

"I don't think there is a big drop off. To be honest, the way the game went, particularly early, our guys had plenty of rest because our offense was on the field. So we really didn't have to substitute very much in the first half because our guys were pretty fresh. As far as drop off, I don't really know because those guys haven't really had a chance to play in the base defense. Like Corey Miller, he plays mostly in the nickel, but he has not been in base very much. Marlon Walls has done a good job in base defense and I think Dan Hood has done a good job in base defense. They just haven't had an opportunity to play as much."

OFFENSIVE LINE COACH SAM PITTMAN

"They're a good team. They're a good front and their linebackers are good. I was proud of how physical we played. I was proud of the way we protected the quarterback, but you're right, in the fourth quarter, we didn't do the things we needed to do to win the game. That comes with maturity, that comes with coaching by me, a lot of things need to get better."

"You could kind of feel it a little bit on the sideline. You could kind of feel that we were wondering a little bit and Coach Dooley had even talked about it this week. We have to finish that stuff. You could feel it about us `come on, come on, come on,' where the first three quarters it was `we're going to win the football game.' So, we have to do a better job as coaching of doing that, or I do. I don't know about the rest of the coaches, but I have to do a better job."

"You know we've got good players. We would do a little better of getting them in the right positions, which we thought we did on Saturday. We're a physical offensive line. In the past, people say we haven't been, but I say we're pretty physical. I think we played a physical team the other night, and we're only going to get better. It was a hard one to swallow, but it's over now and we have to go beat Akron."

"We pulled really well. We got on their linebackers really well. Their gap schemes were better than our inside zones. We ran the inside zone away from Sharrif and he made three plays on us. I mean, he's going to make three plays on a bunch of people. He's a good player. Then, we ran the gap schemes to him and we had success."