Two-Minute Drill: Justin Blalock

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Sophomore Justin Blalock has been a starter at offensive tackle for UT since last season as a redshirt freshman. He's been able to create holes for back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons and he is doing everything he can to help Cedric Benson continue his climb up the NCAA rushing lists. The Plano, Texas native spoke to MackBrown-TexasFootball.com about the comeback versus Oklahoma State, the game against Kansas and how roommate Rodrique Wright has helped him in this edition of the Two-Minute Drill.

On scoring touchdowns on seven-straight possessions:
It seemed almost like no matter how hard we tried, we couldn‚t fail. It definitely seemed like everything was clicking in the second half against Oklahoma State. We said at halftime that they played a career half and we didn‚t think they could duplicate it in the second. We didn‚t do anything different schematically; we were just the aggressors in the second half.

On the comeback:
I've only seen a comeback like that once in my life. My high school, before I played there, came back from 31 points in about five minutes thanks to four on-sides kicks or something. But, that‚s high school. I‚ve never even heard of anything like this happening in college. It was faith by the whole team and I think you could have gone into that locker room at half time and they all would have said we were going to win.

On having six 300-yard rushing games this season:
Basically, people prepare for Cedric (Benson) and Vince (Young) to run the ball and more often than not, we are successful in doing that. It is great to know that we can dominate the line of scrimmage even though we are seeing eight and nine men in the box on every play. I think if we run our offense and are disciplined that we can keep going.

On guarding against a letdown against Kansas:
It starts with preparation during the week. We were really prepared last week or we wouldn't have been able to come back the way we did, if we weren't prepared. Being behind 35-7 at one point is a good enough reminder that we need to come out running on all cylinders or something like that can happen.

On playing in colder weather:
I don't really like it because everything hurts more (laughing). It‚s an 11 o'clock game so I don't think it will be a big deal. I like playing in cool weather, but cold is not good. But, the weather really doesn't have anything to do with how we play.

On his relationship with Rodrique Wright:
I think living together has helped us both out a lot. He‚s seen a little more than I have, so he's been clueing me in on what people like and don't like. It's kind of like having a spy in the other position group.