By Eric W. BolinArkansas News Bureau • [email protected] — Arkansas wide receiver Dominique Reed suffered an upper-body injury in the second quarter of Arkansas' Liberty Bowl win over Kansas State on Saturday.Reed caught a pass from Brandon Allen on a slant and while turning up field was hit in the head from the side and slightly behind by a Kansas State defender making a tackle. The impact jammed Reed's neck backward and as he was falling, the crash into the ground jammed it again.He was motionless on the field for several minutes. Medical personnel initially brought out a back board and eventually had to bring a stretcher. ESPN reported Reed was smiling and talking as he was loaded on to an ambulance for the hospital.Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said Reed was waiting for his team in the locker room after the game, smiling, talking and walking. Bielema said he thinks Reed took a hard shot to the head and it was not a neck injury."I think he's got a heck of a headache, but he's alive and well," Bielema said.It was the second time an Arkansas player had suffered a scary injury this season. Freshman running back Rawleigh Williams III had a similar incident against Auburn in the middle of the year. His was a neck injury he did not return to the team the rest of the season and his status for 2016 is unknown.Reed, a junior-college transfer, finished his first season at Arkansas with 28 catches for 535 yards and six touchdowns.SEC DominanceThose S-E-C chants so common in games this bowl season were loud inside Liberty Bowl Stadium on Saturday, too.And the Razorbacks, Bielema especially, love them. The Arkansas win moved the Southeastern Conference to 8-2 in bowl season.The average margin of victory by SEC teams over their opponents was 16.1 points entering the Arkansas game. That number is lowered most significantly by a 34-point Florida loss to Michigan and a six-point Texas A&M loss to Louisville.Those numbers have helped reinvigorate the notion that the SEC is the best conference in college football. And Bielema thinks anyone who dogs that notion is borderline crazy."What people have to realize is it's pretty obvious. We play each other. Somebody wants to find out, come play all seven of us in a year and see what you think. It blows my mind that people can't wrap around the concept. It's really mind-blowing the fact that people can't grasp that simple concept," he said.Quarterback Brandon Allen seconded that."You see us (the SEC) playing all these other teams and it's not really even close," he said. "The SEC has always been and I think will always be the toughest conference to play in."The Liberty Bowl margin of 22 points was only the sixth best by an SEC team this bowl season. Arkansas' 45 points total in the game were the most the team has ever scored in a bowl game in school history. The previous record was 34 in the 1980 Hall of Fame Bowl.History MadeArkansas' most common bowl in school history has been the Liberty Bowl. Saturday's win over Kansas State, though, was just the team's second in five trips to Memphis.The previous win came on the Razorbacks' last trip there. Arkansas beat East Carolina in overtime in 2009, 20-17. The other trips were in 1987 (loss to Georgia), 1984 (loss to Auburn) and 1971 (loss to Tennessee).