Each week, Adam Rittenberg takes you inside coaches' conversations in Inside Access , but we can't fit everything everyone said in one place. So here are some nuggets that didn't fit in the column, but are too good to be ignored. In today's notebook: Brett Hundley's growth, BC's defense, Missouri's Shane Ray and Colorado State's Rashard Higgins.

Hundley’s continued growth at UCLA

You don’t hear Brett Hundley’s name in the Heisman Trophy conversation, while his primary preseason competitor, Oregon’s Marcus Mariota, is the favorite to win it. Hundley’s numbers are excellent -- 72.1 percent completions, 24 touchdowns (17 pass, 7 rush) and 3,111 yards (2,547 pass, 564 rush), but there’s a perception that he leveled off this season.

Bruins offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone doesn’t buy it. Just because some of the more common Hundley images this fall show him harried or on his back -- he has been sacked 29 times, tied for 12th most nationally -- the junior has continued to develop.

“You hear he’s holding the ball, he’s taking too many sacks,” Mazzone told Inside Access