WATCH: Sherrone Moore press conference following Michigan football loss to Oklahoma

NORMAN, Okla. — Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore met with the media following his team’s 24-13 loss to Oklahoma Saturday night at Memorial Stadium. Watch video of his press conference below.

Head coach Sherrone Moore

Moore opened up with his general thoughts on Michigan’s performance.

“I thought on defense, the adjustments in the second half were really good,” Moore said. “We’ve got to tackle better on defense. I thought there were some missed tackles we made. Offensively, some over execution. When you play offensive football, one person misses here, one person misses here, you have an unexecuted play. So, we’ve got to be better at that.”

Freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood made his first road start.

“As far as handling the crowd noise, atmosphere, all that, he handled it fine,” Moore noted. “It was just the execution. And that’s everybody. It’s not just him. I think everybody wants to put the pressure on him, but we’ve all got to our jobs. That’s O-line, Receivers, running backs, whoever it is in those situations to make it easier for him.”

Underwood and Michigan junior running back Justice Haynes got in a heated argument on the sideline, which was picked up by the ABC broadcast.

“Right after that happened, they talked it over and they were fine,” Moore revealed. “It’s competitive. They’re competitors. They just both want to be right, both be on the same page. Handle it right and make good plays. 

“Just a communication error. They just both want to be right. They’re both competitors, both want to be right, and at the end of the day they figured it out, and we got it handled.”

Michigan didn’t get the job done in its first road game of the year.

“Being away is always a factor, but I thought our guys did a good job,” Moore noted. “I don’t know if we had any pre-snap penalties, things like that. We handled the noise well, but the atmosphere is the atmosphere. Being somewhere different is different. I thought the kids handled the atmosphere and the noise well. We just have to execute.”

The game was a homecoming for the Michigan coach, who played O-line for the Sooners from 2006-07, but he didn’t focus much on it.

“Like I said, it was a big time game for two big time programs,” he said. “It wasn’t me vs. Brent or me coming back to Oklahoma. It was really about the players. Always is about the players, always will be about the players, never going to be about me and my experience or anything. So, it’s about us being better as a program. That’s what it’s about.”