Here’s an idea.

Just throw it.

Throw it short, throw it long and throw it medium. Throw it wide, dump it off, throw a screen. Throw it till the cows come home. Throw it till the first of Octember. Throw it until it makes you sick. Then throw it some more.

Throw it until, well … throw it until you can pick 4 yards any other way.

See, football’s not so tough.

It’s really very simple.

Is there a better throwing quarterback in the college game than Sam Bradford? Is there a better group of receivers than Manny Johnson, Juaquin Iglesias, Ryan Broyles and Jermaine Gresham? If so, not many on either count.

So why not do more of what you do best.

It’s a simplistic view, but one Oklahoma should consider.

Unaware (because he was answering a question on the difference between running with the quarterback under center and running out of the shotgun), Bob Stoops actually made the case for abandoning the run Tuesday.

“The bottom line is, when you’re up there with six blockers and they have seven defenders, they’ve got you outnumbered no matter what formation you’re in,” he said. “And basic football says, if they have you outnumbered, then you throw the football. And we’ve been highly effective throwing the football.”

So why not do it every snap.

Until you quit getting outnumbered.

There Stoops was, sort of defending his running game, because so much of the time the Sooners were trying to establish it against clear imbalance. Well, that may mitigate the personnel in question, but it indicts the decision to run in the first place.

Yes, it’s hard to accuse a team of running too much when of its 67 plays from scrimmage, 41 were passes and three more were supposed to be passes but were sacks instead. On the other hand, if it’s not working at all, it’s not, you know, working at all.