Assorted press conference quotes, notes

UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince on…

On back-dooring into the Pac-12 championship game:
“It’s a little weird. Obviously things didn’t go the way we wanted last night. We would’ve preferred to make the conference championship game by winning it outright. But the situation turned out that we have the opportunity to redeem ourselves. We’re still excited about the opportunity. Definitely not the way we wanted it to go down.”

On moving the ball but scoring zero points:
“Lack of execution when we got down to the red zone. We got it down within 10 yards three different times. We just weren’t able to put it in the end zone. That comes down to me. It comes down to me not executing when I needed to. We had a chance to run a couple in that I didn’t take advantage of. I’ll take responsibility for that.”

On working with a short week:
“When we had two weeks to prepare it didn’t work so well, so hopefully short week helps us a little better.”

On regaining confidence:
“Just have a couple solid days of practice. Sit down, team meeting tomorrow, just refresh and go over what went wrong in the SC game. Just to have a solid day of practice would go a long way in going to help get our confidence back.”