Video of Bradford’s injury has on emerged on the YouTube, and Yahoo! Sports’ Matt Hinton (nee Dr. Saturday) pairs it with some analysis:
Video: Bradford Goes Down
Even before the hit that knocked Bradford out for the foreseeable future with a sprained shoulder, BYU was using a variety of blitzes to hit him, probably more often and definitely more directly than Bradford had been hit in any short period of time in his career. The end result, on OU’s last offensive play of the first half, is the worst-case disaster you see above.
The narrative will focus on Bradford’s absence in the second half, which isn’t entirely fair to the Cougars: BYU was outgaining the Sooners in a tie game when Bradford left, and finished with a nearly 100-yard advantage in total yards on a half-yard more per snap. Realistically, the score could have been worse, given the opportunities the Cougars left on the field with a missed field goal, a fumble inside the Sooner red zone and two punts with the ball in Oklahoma territory.
Read the rest of his analysis here and panic! as he explains that BYU (along with Thursday’s big winners, Boise State) is now officially a “BCS buster”--meaning we will either have to endure a. an inferior team playing in the title game and getting slaughtered by a Florida-like team or, more likely, b. a bunch of fans bemoaning the status quo in college football and pointing to a team like BYU as an example of why college football is rigged.
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