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Oklahoma coach Brent Venables walks off he field after the Red River Rivalry college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Texas Longhorns at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. Texas one 34-3.
The Oklahoma Sooners take the field once again this week, as they’re back at home against the South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday. OU is 4-2 overall this season, but just 1-2 in SEC play.
After a 3-0 start with wins over Temple, Houston, and Tulane, Oklahoma lost to Tennessee, defeated Auburn, and got beat by Texas.
With a brutal schedule in the SEC still awaiting them, the Sooners have very little margin for error, a fact compounded by a lackluster offense that OU has trotted out for much of 2024.
Brent Venables’ team has already had one of their two bye weeks for the regular season, so there won’t be much extra time to fix things from week to week.
The Gamecocks are fully capable of coming into Norman and defeating the Sooners on Saturday, especially with as bad as the offense has been for Oklahoma. Shane Beamer’s team nearly defeated LSU earlier this season and almost beat Alabama last week. One ESPN college football analyst thinks that a loss against South Carolina would be dangerous for OU.
Greg McElroy, the host of “Always College Football” for ESPN, and one of the network’s top college football color commentators, thinks the Sooners would be trending to miss bowl season with a loss this week at home.
“Had I told you that when this game was approaching in the middle of October this game would determine bowl eligibility, potentially, would you have believed me,” McElroy said. “Just being honest. You look at Oklahoma: ten wins a year ago, a ready-made defense, a potential star at quarterback, all this hype coming into the season, and now they lose this one? Let’s be real, I mean…
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Author : Sooners Wire
Publish date : 2024-10-18 22:28:01
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