So what did we learn from the first week of college football action in 2009?
BYU proved that Hawaiians and 26-year old white men can still comprise a quality college athletic program, and Boise State now has company at the front of the line to crash the B(C)S party. Casual observers will cite the injury to Oklahoma's Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford as the reason for
BYU's 14-13 upset Saturday, but the Mormons were already giving the defending national runner-up plenty of trouble before Bradford went down in the second quarter.
BYU turnovers were all that kept the
Sooners in the game in the first half, with a fumbled punt inside the Cougar 10 setting up Oklahoma's
first TD and a fumble inside the Sooner 10 sabotaging a certain
BYU scoring drive.
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