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Juice has to produce

"He's on the normal course you would expect of a guy who's getting ready to start his third year," coach Ron Zook said. "We've kept a lot of pressure off him the last two years. I told him, 'It's time for you to take it over. We've protected you.' "

Williams is getting the message.

"Coach Zook is trying to install in me to have the mind-set that it's my team, this is my year," Williams said. "That's an added role for me, to be a leader and think of this as my team."

"I'd like to see him up around 70," Zook said. "That might be a little higher than it has to be. But if you complete 70 percent of our passes you have a chance to be pretty good."

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