“I think it’s critical to stay in the fight,” Houston the second-year coach said of the challenge his team faces against the No. 13 Knights’ rapid fire offense. "We’ve been kind of equating it to Mike Tyson in the early ’90s, late ’80s. He knocked out so many opponents early in the match. It was really until Buster Douglas took him into the later rounds that he finally lost.
“It’s kind of that mentality that you’ve got to compete and go at them from the get-go, not get behind like we did last year, which you’ve seen so much.