Paul Finebaum thinks the Sooners are on their way back to the top

The toughest conference in college football only gets more difficult in 2024. The Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns officially became members of the SEC on July 1. The SEC has long been the sports’ strongest league and now adds two of college football’s top ten programs of all time. The Sooners and Longhorns join an already impressive list of teams that the Southeastern Conference has under its umbrella.

Some national analysts believe that Steve Sarkisian’s Texas team is more “SEC-ready” than Brent Venables and Oklahoma. Sarkisian has been in Austin a year longer than Venables has been in Norman. He’s had more time to build the program his way than his rival has. Texas went to the College Football Playoff last year and won the conference title, while OU settled for an Alamo Bowl berth, missing the conference championship game.

While not everyone believes that Oklahoma is lagging behind, most of the national media has the ‘Horns in the driver’s seat heading into the SEC.

ESPN College Football analyst Paul Finebaum is one such media member. The SEC expert and host of “The Paul Finebaum Show” thinks the Longhorns are in a better spot than the Sooners at this point in time. However, Finebaum said on his show Monday that he thinks OU will turn the tide. One of his callers asked if the Longhorns were ahead coming into the season, and Finebaum agreed, while also praising the job being done at Oklahoma.

“In this moment, it’s accurate,” Finebaum said. “I say this after having spent a couple of trips to Norman, but I don’t think it’s going to remain this way. I really like what I’m seeing out there.”

There’s a sense that Texas is trending upward, improving significantly each year under Sarkisian, following the Charlie Strong and Tom Herman debacles. There’s also a sense that Oklahoma…

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Author : Sooners Wire

Publish date : 2024-07-24 23:00:10

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