Chris Petersen
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"Christopher Scott "Chris" Petersen" is a college football coach, currently the head coach at the Washington Huskies football/University of Washington, hired on December 6, 2013.

Previously the head coach for eight seasons at Boise State Broncos football/Boise State University, Petersen guided the Boise State Broncos football/Broncos to two Bowl Championship Series/BCS bowl wins, in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and the 2010 Fiesta Bowl. He is the first and only two-time winner of the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award, which he won in 2006 Boise State Broncos football team/2006 and 2009 Boise State Broncos football team/2009. Petersen also won the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award in 2010 Boise State Broncos football team/2010.

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We're going to have to go out there and earn it, though. We had a lot of guys coming back this year. It doesn't matter how few guys you lose, the chemistry always changes. Talent only gets you so far. Chemistry ... has to come with it.

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Because of that (relationship), we've studied the Utah situation a lot.

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The best way to get better is to study yourself. Our players and our coaches are always studying. We have that attitude. When you study, you know what to do, and when you understand your assignment, you play faster because you don't have to slow down to make decisions. We like to play at full speed.

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We call it a chameleon offense. We just kind of blend in and look one way one week, a different way the next.

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We play a lot of people. That way not everyone has to know everything we're doing, except for the quarterback. He has to know everything. Some teams have a tendency to play three, four receivers. We'll play seven or eight. Some teams play one or two running backs. We'll play five.

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We're planning on business as usual.

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One or two plays can make or break you at that position. ... He's learned some hard lessons. (Wednesday's) lesson may be as difficult as anything we've learned yet. If he's learned from it, he will be much better down the road for it.

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They were at a different level physically than we'd seen.

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Those guys, they're having growing pains and that's to be expected. As much as we tried to get them in there in the summer and get them prepared, there's just nothing like being in a game. You just can't simulate that situation.

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