ORLANDO, Fla. - Postgame quotes following Maryland's 30-24 win over UCF.

Maryland Head Coach DJ Durkin

Opening Statement:
“To go on the road in college football and win games is not easy. I mean, how many upsets were there today elsewhere? We talked about it all week, we believe that was how this game was going to go; not double overtime, but we thought it was going to be a close game. They are talented. They're pride was tested last week. Coming off of that, obviously, their focus was on high alert.

“I'm just so proud of our guys. There were so many times when they had to dig deep. The offense had to pick up the defense and the defense had to pick up the offense, special teams and everything. There was a lot of swings [of momentum] in that game. I think more than anything, when you look at our team we held strong through all of that, to me that's a great sign for us. To me that's not been indicative of what we have done. So that's our first sign of adversity and how we were going to respond and we responded the right way.”

How crazy and bizarre was the finish?
“It was wild, that's college football. I think (Tyrrell) Pigrome has ice in his veins. There's nothing big about the moment for him. He stood in the huddle and said 'ok what do we have here? Let's run it.' I'm sitting there talking about ball security and he's probably looking at me like, don't worry about that, because I'm going to score. Then, he just went and did it. He's calm and cool about it and did a great job. The guys blocked quite well for him. That's us and that's our team.”

Senior Running Back Kenneth Goins Jr.

On Pigrome's TD Run in 2OT:
“No doubt at all. He's a great player. Whenever he gets in, I have faith. There's no dropoff. Next man up. You've got to be ready.”

On the Second-Half Adjustments:
“Just run. Just keep our heads down and keep running. Whatever Coach [Walt Bell] calls, just execute as best we could.”

On the Environment:
“We were ready for this type of game, the adversity. We just stuck together. We believed we were going to win from the beginning. We just had to make adjustments and execute.”

Junior Linebacker Shane Cockerille

Thoughts on win:
“It feels great. Coach [Durkin] always talks about sticking together and fighting through adversity with all of the work we put into the offseason. We prepared for everything and we're proud of the way everyone played offensively.”

Thoughts on containing UCF's running backs:
“He's a great athlete the big thing for us was staying in our rush lanes and later in the game I thought we did better.”

Thoughts on Pigrome coming in to win the game:
“It was huge. I don't think anyone over there thought he was going to come in there and do that. Busting off a huge gain and scoring the touchdown.”

Thoughts on UCF's Milton getting first start:
“It was nothing out of the ordinary for us. We were prepared for anybody to be in the game. He's a tremendous athlete as you can see, but we stuck together and played our hearts out as a team.”

Thoughts on watching Milton's high school tape before game:
“We talked about it. We didn't know who was going to start until earlier this morning. Coach told us he was an option kid in high school, obviously a dual threat guy, came out and surprised us early, but everybody did their jobs and covered it.”

Senior Defensive Back William Likely III

Impression of Tyrrell Pigrome at the end of the game:
“We've seen him in practice all the time so when he got in everybody was comfortable and everybody knew what he could do.”

Defensively was it a bend but don't break type of approach?
“They made some plays, and we knew they were going to make some plays and they are a great team. They have a great coach, so it was just more of displaying our defense and as long as we stop them from scoring then we'll win.”

What happened in the play during overtime when it looked like you took a shot in the face?
“The receiver ran out of bounds and I don't know if they reviewed it or not, but he ran out of bounds when I forced him out. So my understanding was that he was ineligible, the quarterback threw it out there and going for it the safety came and hit me. So it was kind of a friendly fire.”

What kind of win does this do for the program?
“Feels good. You want to win every game especially going 3-0 that's pretty good. We have a bye week so we can get healthy and get ready for the next team.”

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