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Oklahoma coach Brent Venables talks with Oklahoma Sooners defensive lineman Damonic Williams (52) after a penalty during 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.
It’s no secret that the 2024 college football season hasn’t gone the way the Oklahoma Sooners have hoped. With a 3-0 nonconference start, OU was a bit shaky, but undefeated heading into Southeastern Conference play. A tough loss against Tennessee hurt, but a thrilling comeback win over Auburn sent the Sooners into the bye on a high note.
Coming out of the bye week, Oklahoma has dropped back-to-back stinkers against Texas and South Carolina to drop to 4-3 overall on the season and just 1-3 in SEC play. Though their first loss to Tennessee was by just ten points, the Sooners have been blown out each of the last two weeks, failing to even make the games competitive.
Now they face the Ole Miss Rebels on the road, a very good team capable of embarrassing the Sooners once again. They’ll get a reprieve next week against Maine before a gauntlet of the final month of the regular season. That four-week stretch includes a game at Missouri, a bye week, a home game against Alabama, and a road game against LSU to close things out.
Simply put, Oklahoma is in serious danger of missing a bowl game for the first time since 1998. They’ll have to find a pretty big upset on their schedule somewhere and take care of business at home against Maine just to get to 6-6.
OU’s season has many folks around the college football landscape concerned for the program’s future, including FOX Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt. Klatt wrote an in-depth article detailing his thoughts on the rough seasons going on right now at Michigan, USC, and,…
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Author : Sooners Wire
Publish date : 2024-10-25 23:30:45
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