LAS VEGAS — Can major college football really be as easy as Rodney Bradley has made it seem for the University of Hawai'i?

Convention would seem to say "no" but Bradley's eye-opening introduction to Division I has, so far, said something else entirely. After all, you're not supposed to be able to go straight from a junior college to Mr. Touchdown in no time flat. Especially when the transition is from a JC that hardly threw the ball to the Warriors' intricate, read-based run-and-shoot offense.

But, somehow, Bradley has.

For all the receivers the Warriors counsel to be patient and things will happen eventually, Bradley is the overnight success story. For all the JC transfers that need the benefits of a red shirt year just to know where to find the ball, the 6-foot, 190-pound Bradley has been the Readers Digest quick read to the end zone.

Tomorrow, the Warriors could use another Bradley moment — or two — at Nevada-Las Vegas where they are a touchdown underdog on the casino betting lines.

Because if Bradley has been confounding custom, it is nothing like what he has done to opposing defenses. In his first Division I appearance, he grabbed the game-winning pass in the back of the end zone to beat Central Arkansas. In his second, he ran through Washington State's defensive secondary as if he owned them money, daring them to catch him. They couldn't.

Bradley has 10 catches and three of them are for touchdowns. He has the Warriors' longest reception this season, 73 yards, a grab and run that had WSU players colliding with each other like something out of a movie crash scene.

When UH recruited Bradley out of Navarro (Texas) JC, on the advice of one of UH head coach Greg McMackin's former players at Texas Tech, they had high hopes for him as a potential difference maker. They just didn't imagine it would be so soon.

Even Bradley, who has put in overtime work into preparation this season, acknowledges he is surprised at the speedy turn of events after being lightly recruited. "I felt I could play and when I came here had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder to show what I could do," Bradley said.

He is, offensive coordinator Ron Lee says, "quite a blessing." And, in his next breath, Lee says, "he's only going to get better."

That would really be something to see.