No one, and I mean no one could have dreamed Sam Bradford would have a debut against North Texas like he did. Sure the OU coaches thought he was playing well in practice. But what was he could to do before 80,000 fans?

Now Bradford has confidence and the Sooner staff has a lot of confidence in him. That means a bunch.

But was this fool’s gold? Was his performance all about going against a very bad defense with not a lot of very good athletes? Sure, part of it was.

However, when you’re hitting 21 out of 23 passes and you’re completing your last 18 tosses, you’re doing something special. Oklahoma looked good, really good. The Sooner coaching staff has been very confident about this team. Now maybe we know why.

Let’s not get too excited though just yet. Miami is coming to town this week. The Hurricanes will probably have the best defense Bob Stoops club will face this year. If OU can win this game, then that means there’s cause for a lot of optimism for the remainder of the season.

The same can’t be said about Oklahoma State. The Cowboys performance at Georgia was a huge disappointment. Everyone knew this was not a vintage Poke defense.

When OSU faces good teams, it’s going to have to score a lot of points. This was supposed to be one of the best offenses in the country. It didn’t play like one against the Bulldogs.

Oklahoma State had been talking about this game for the entire off-season. It had put so much time and energy into it. Mike Gundy and his staff knew how important it was to his program.

Now he has to have his team regroup after just one game. What the Cowboys have to get right now is a big dose of confidence before they open their Big 12 season against Texas Tech later this month is Stillwater.