Boise State senior quarterback Joe Southwick, 15-4 straight up as a starter, suffered a fractured right ankle on the first play from scrimmage in the Saturday 34-17 win over Nevada and is out.

Backup quarterback Grant Hedrick, a junior who has not played an entire game since his final year of high school, 2009, was spectacular in relief, completing 18 of 21 passes for 150 yards and rushing eight times for 115 yards. So why are we fading him?

We have seen so many times teams rally short-term to adversity but now BUY can scheme against him.

BYU chalked up a season-high 681 yards and 41 first downs in the one-point win at Houston. Taysom Hill passes for 417 yards, four touchdowns and rushed for another 128, which includes losing 66 yards on sacks. Yes the last two games were very close, but in both cases it was Boise as the better team. Now it is the Charles Atlas theory. BYU is in a rare case of being the better team and they will kick the sand in the face of the non-BCS bully.

Though Boise holds teams to .1 below their normal yards per play average, BYU does by an impressive .8. Boise State has just one road win all season and it is their toughest test since getting destroyed by 32 at Washington.