""It may not feel like it when you're in this moment right now and what happened today, but I can tell you it's a fine between being here and being at the top," DeBoer said. "We got to put the work in, you got to believe, you got to be consistent, you got to have discipline and we'll get back to work and start all over again.""
""They led with a trigger man, made the throws, third-down conversions, just kept them on the football field," DeBoer said. "They continued to wear us down at the end of the game with the run game. They just execute at a high level, and everyone feeds off each other on both sides of the ball. It's not just one thing.""
Alabama lost 38-3 to Indiana in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl, marking the most lopsided postseason defeat in program history and the first time the team trailed by 35 points since 1998. Coach Kalen DeBoer described a narrow margin between this result and achieving top status, stressing the need to rebuild with the right personnel, discipline, consistency and commitment. DeBoer credited Indiana's balanced execution, praising quarterback Fernando Mendoza, the running game and Coach Curt Cignetti's alignment. Receiver Germie Bernard acknowledged that coaches prepared a strong game plan and placed responsibility on players to execute.
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