Postgame with Mike McNeill:

“Yeah, it's pretty obvious, eight turnovers. ... I don't want to say that because that would discredit against the effort (Iowa State) put forth. They did what was necessary to win the football game.”

— NU coach Bo Pelini on if NU beat itself

“It's coaching and want to. We didn't get it done. We got beat.”

— Pelini on how to explain eight turnovers

“We didn't make plays. We didn't finish off drives. We had plenty of opportunities to win the football game, and we didn't get it done. I am very disappointed.”

— Pelini on the offense

“I think Zac was the least of our problems today.”

— Pelini on NU's quarterback play

“We had a chance to have a boatload of points on the board, and we put the ball on the ground. We were lucky to be in the football game. Eight turnovers? We could have gotten run out of the stadium. I don't know if I've ever been around that in my coaching career. You can't win a football game like that.”

— Pelini

“No, you just have to roll with the punches. It's something, that's the name of the game. You never know what's going to happen, but you have to learn how to deal with it at any point and time what happens.”

— NU defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh on if he's frustrated

“It's not meshing together just yet and I don't know why it's not, but we're definitely going to figure it out.”

— Suh on putting the loss into words

“They've got an outstanding defense. Are you kidding me? Eight turnovers I think we gained, and the final score of this game was 9-7. Anybody else that had that kind of turnover advantage would've won by 30 or 40 points. Credit Nebraska.”

— ISU coach Paul Rhoads on NU's defense

“Strange. Who knows why we get all those balls out like we do. We didn't do any extra strip drills or anything like that. Strange, strange day. Maybe somebody thought 32 years was long enough and we needed to come out of here victorious.”

— Rhoads on NU's fumbles

“Yeah, whacky game, but that's how it goes sometimes. That's college football.”

— ISU defensive tackle Nate Frere

Postgame with Bo Pelini: