Oregon coach Dan Lanning felt the identity of his team showed itself Saturday night as the No. 6-ranked Ducks delivered a thoroughly impressive 36-27 win over USC while leading by as many as 22 points in the fourth quarter.

“Our team, our DNA is something we thought would show up in the game. I think they did," Lanning said. "There was never any panic, never any relax in our guys. When they are able to execute at the level we are able to perform at, I think we have a really, really special team. I think all those things showed up. It’s not about want to, it’s really about who’s willing to do more. Our guys were willing to do that little bit extra against a team that is really talented.”

Watch Lanning's full postgame press conference here and scroll down for a complete transcript of his comments ...

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Opening Statement:

“How about that crowd? Absolutely electric group. Made that really special. It was fun to sit out there and watch two elite quarterbacks battle it out. Obviously, we’ve got a really special one on our sideline. I think that’s a Heisman-worthy performance from Bo (Nix) and fun to do it in front of the fifth-largest crowd ever here in Autzen Stadium. We knew that they were a talented team. We knew they were dangerous and had the ability to come back, so I don’t know if anybody ever felt relaxed. I’m disappointed a little with our finish because I think that we are a much better team than what we showed down the stretch, but we got some good experience for some guys. We got dinged up a little bit. The penalties are something I know you guys are going to ask questions about and we have to address it for us to be the team we want to be. We have to become more disciplined. I’m not sure that I agreed with every single one of them, but that being said, it is something we can certainly fix.

"Some of those are ones we can attack. I thought we were physical tonight. I thought that showed up consistently and we knew we had to eliminate some explosive plays, but we gave them life with a couple of those explosive plays they hit late.”

On how the defensive line played:

“I thought there were some really great moments. I think we’ll go back and look at some of the explosive plays and look at how we gave them a little more opportunity than we needed, but we have a defensive line that can create havoc. We’ve got some guys who are talented players. That was a good front, they have a good offensive line. I thought our guys were able to mess up some of the timing there on the back end because they have some really talented wideouts. Good job, but we have to eliminate the explosive plays.”

On being aggressive to start the game:

“We saw what we were capable of. It is still about players making plays. A guy made a great catch, broke a tackle, and turned it into a huge play. I think that’s what football really is about. We have to be a great tackling team. We have to be a great team at breaking tackles. We will go back and see some fundamentals that we could have done a lot better on tonight and that’s what practice is for. They did some things that we thought we could take advantage of. I thought our coaches did a good job of attacking that, but there are still some finishing pieces that we can certainly clean up.”