McCoy has a tip for Bradford<br/><span class='hl2'>Don't get too fancy, Texas QB warns</span>

Colt McCoy likens playing quarterback to teenage driving.

"Your freshman year, it's like when you start driving a car, you stop at every stoplight, put your blinker on, you never go above the speed limit,” the Texas quarterback said. "In the second year, you have your driver's license, it's a little tempting, you pass on the double yellow line, you do some crazy things.”

Most TD passes by a freshman in a season

Player	Year	School	TDs
Sam Bradford	2007	OU	36
Colt McCoy	2006	Texas	29
David Neill	1998	Nevada	29
Chad Henne	2004	Michigan	25
Kevin Kolb	2003	Houston	25
Ben Roethlisberger	2001	Miami (Ohio)	25
Philip Rivers	2000	NC State	25
John Denton	1996	UNLV	25
Trevor Vittatoe	2007	UTEP	25

Tale of the tape: Bradford vs. McCoy
A look at how Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford and Texas QB Colt McCoy measured up during their freshman seasons:


Bradford	vs.	McCoy
2007	Year	2006
36	TD passes	29
8	INTs	7
3,121	Yards	2,570
69.5	Completion %	68.2
176.52	QB efficiency	161.82
1st	Rank	8th
11-3	Record	10-3
1st	Big 12 South finish	2nd
Fiesta Lost 48-28, West Virginia	Bowl game	Alamo Won 26-24, Iowa

As a freshman, McCoy was spectacular, tossing 29 touchdowns to just seven interceptions.

But following a reckless sophomore year in which he threw 18 interceptions and took 24 sacks, both tying Big 12 highs, McCoy has advice for Oklahoma's sophomore quarterback, Sam Bradford.

"It's super easy in your second year to feel comfortable, to feel you know everything, to feel you don't have to do as much as you did your freshman year,” McCoy said. "But in reality, you have to do that much more. That's what I've learned.”

That's the challenge for Bradford, coming off a brilliant freshman season.

Bradford led the nation in passing efficiency and shattered McCoy's NCAA freshman record for touchdown passes with 36 while only throwing eight picks.

"After his game against us, I kind of jumped on his bandwagon,” McCoy said, referring to Bradford's three-touchdown performance against the Longhorns. "He was doing the same thing I was doing the year before, playing great.

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