California head coach Justin Wilcox
On Marcel Dancy:
"He's a tough guy to tackle and he's built low to the ground. It was nice to see him get in there and get some opportunities because he's been doing that in practice.
 
On experimenting with player positions
"It was nice to see Ian (Bunting)  make a couple nice catches. Chase threw the ball 8 or 9 feet in the air and he  just jumped up and caught it. I give a lot of credit to Idaho State, they played really well and were tough. We were bigger than they were and had more speed. It's going to get harder and harder as we move into the schedule here and get into Pac 12 play. Ian making some catches and Nikko (Remigio) with the punt return, it's good to see that. We just have so much that we need to clean up. It's apparent."
 
On Jordan Duncan and Jeremiah Hawkins
"We had some opportunities in the past game where we didn't catch them and it's nice to see them finish that. Jeremiah can do something with the ball once he catches it. He's strong and we see him make those plays. Same with Jordan, he's worked hard. He's had a good offseason, changed his body. In fall camp, he was moving a lot better than he did a year ago.
 
On the impact of mistakes
"The better the team you're playing, the harder it is going to be to recover from those. Fifteen-yard penalties, pass interference, facemask on a third down, third down pass interference, fourth down pass interference that they end up scoring on, running into the punt return. We scored a touchdown, and then the ball comes back and then we are out of bounds. We can't have that. If it's 10 out of 11 guys doing it right and one not. They're trying, doesn't mean they aren't trying. No one on our team overlooked the opponent today, we just have to play better. It's technique, it's focus, and it's training. We have to be better across the board, starting with me.
 
On Ashtyn Davis' interception
"It was nice, he went up and got the ball. He's been playing well. He's gotten better and better since he has been playing a lot for us last year and now. He's a talented athlete. He ran through a tackle and beat everyone on the sideline. He plays fearless."
 
On Jake Ashton's touchdown
"It was awesome. Jake's worked hard. He's put a lot of time in here so it was nice to see him go in today and make that play."
 
On the punting
"Huge. Field position in general, a  punter can have a massive impact on that. Steven (Coutts) has done a nice job this year. We will go back and look at each one of those punts individually, but hang time and placement are critical and he's done a great job with it."
 
On starting Pac-12 play
"It's going to get harder. We have a tough Pac 12 schedule and we have a lot of work to do in order to give ourselves a chance to win those games."

California players
Chase Garbers, QB
Thoughts on offensive balance
"Our game plan going in was to be very balanced and run the ball. We just executed our game plan."
 
On Jordan Duncan and Jeremiah Hawkins
"Those two are playmakers. Jordan had two touchdowns and Jeremiah is explosive wherever he can get the ball."
 
Ashtyn Davis, S
On his touchdown
"We always look back on film and see one blocker, one cut that I could have made and so we were kinda due for one. It was exciting to finally get it."
 
On his interception
"I saw the quarterback hit his back foot and look one way and just took off. The D-line got a lot of good pressure and kinda tossed it up and just went for the goal."
 
On what stands out the most from the game
"I'm not sure. I always love getting a takeaway  because I don't know if I could put any in front of the other that kick return just opened right up and ran right through it."
 
Jordan Duncan, WR
On other players successes during today's game
"It was fun, those guys worked hard today. I know sometimes they don't get in cause of the level of competition etc. but it was good to see those guys out there today.
 
Nikko Remigio, WR
On being out there/being on the field
"I've been waiting for it and finally get that moment and that shot to do what I've been waiting and preparing for."
 
On his punt return
"I just saw a lot of open field and really, to be honest, I was pretty nervous the first few plays going in, I just told myself 'you just gotta run and get out of there.' Once I convinced myself to do that, it all worked out.

Idaho State head coach Rob Phenicie
 
General comments:
"One of the big things we wanted to do was not give the game away. We did not make it easy on the Cal Bears. We wanted them to earn whatever points they got. Unfortunately we had an interception that led to a touchdown, a kickoff return, and we had a couple busted coverages. Give credit to the Cal Bears, they took advantage of those opportunities when presented to them.
 
They have great defense; very stout. We couldn't get any first downs unless we got a deep ball or a penalty. It took us a while to get going. They present a very difficult defensive problem. Coach Wilcox and Coach DeRuyter are awesome with what they've got going.

We need to not give the game away like that. Giving up big plays for touchdowns is unacceptable."

On play of quarterback Tanner Gueller:
"He was pressing a little too much. He finally settled down but the game was pretty much decided by that point. We stress with our kids that we're going to compete until the end of the game. He had his eyes in the wrong place a few times and got sacked four times. He did a good job of stepping up against their pressure but he just wasn't accurate with his throws. His job is to manage the game. There will be some thing's we'll go back and look at that we need to fix a little bit.

On status of wide receiver Ty Flanagan:
"The trainers will take a look at him tonight and we'll see where he is, but it didn't look like anything serious."

On things to take away from the game:
"We'll build on the fact that our guys didn't quit. We had almost half our team making their first Division I road trip and to a Pac-12 environment against a really good team. I thought they handled themselves very well.

We stress fight and don't quit. We stress fourth quarter and that was good to see.

In my opinion, in the four years I've been associated with Idaho State, this was one of our best Division I games. In the past, there have been a lot of blowouts but we came out and played hard.

We lost. First and foremost, we lost. No moral victories. We lost. But we won the turnover battle against one of the best turnover teams in FBS. That's awesome. We came out and we protected the ball, we held onto the ball. That's something to build off of, but it's still a loss. We need to go back, regroup and go into another nasty defensive environment next week in North Dakota."