Lots more to come, but here are some quotes from Jim Leavitt's postgame press conference after Saturday's 49-16 loss to Rutgers, the most lopsided home loss in USF history:

"We didn't play very well. That's obvious, and Rutgers played very well. At halftime, I thought we really had a shot in there. I thought we were playing with great emotion, playing hard."

"What happened in the second half? I'll be honest with you, I don't know. They drove on our defense right away, all the way down the field. ... That just popped our defense. Even when it was 28-16, I really felt OK, we had two scores, and then our defense just couldn't stop them. That's all there is to it, they couldn't stop them.

"Our football team is certainly down, about as down as you can get. ... We'll rise up. I don't have any doubt about that. We have to see if we can get together and find our football team a week from tomorrow on national TV against Connecticut. That will be a real interesting deal to see what happens in the next seven-eight days, about the character of this football team.

"The most disappointing thing was the second half. That's the first time I've seen our team do that in a long time. I've been here a number of years, and if you look at our football team, that doesn't happen often. Why, again, I don't know. We'll try to figure it out."

(Asked why the team has underachieved from high expectations:) "We didn't earlier. The last few games we haven't done as well. I think injuries have hurt us a lot. We've lost a lot of players, and the continuity. I think the continuity really has hurt a little bit. We don't have the same team we had the first five games. We've had a number of guys out. I don't like to say that, really, because I don't want it to sound like excuses. So I didn't really want to answer that questions. But if I'm going to be honest, really honest, that's what I really think is a big part of it. See, coaches don't like to make excuses, because people don't like to hear them, but the truth of the matter is we've got a lot of guys banged up, a lot of guys hurt, and we're not a real deep football team. We've lost a bunch of continuity because of that."