The Oklahoma Sooners must improve by leaps and bounds on offense in 2025 after their 2024 offense was the worst we’d seen in Norman since 1998. OU had the best defense they’d had in a long, long time last season, but the offense was so broken that the Sooners went just 6-7. Head coach Brent Venables can’t survive a third season in Norman that fails to meet expectations.
Jackson Arnold led the Sooners with just 1,421 passing yards. That was the lowest number to lead an Oklahoma team since Jake Sills threw for 502 passing yards in 1998, the final year of the John Blake era. Bob Stoops took command the following season and set the Sooners on a run to take back their rightful place among college football’s elite. Arnold’s passing totals were also dead last in the Southeastern Conference, as he threw for just 142.1 yards per game.
Quarterback certainly wasn’t the only part of the offense that wasn’t good enough last year, but OU upgraded in a big way in 2025
John Mateer arrives from Washington State to replace him, after leading the FBS in total touchdowns last season. He’s the single most important player to Oklahoma’s success or failure in 2025, and he was the top available player in the transfer portal when the Sooners secured him in December.
J.D. PicKell, a college football analyst for On3 Sports, believes that the addition of John Mateer could make the Sooners much improved on offense in 2025. He broke down some of the things he expects to see from the OU offense with a new player under center.
“Last year, Washington State averaged 9.6 yards a pass; number three in America,” Pickell said. “Translation: push the ball downfield a little bit. That’s a very stark contrast to what you weren’t able to do last year at Oklahoma. I totally get some of that is personnel driven whether it be the receivers being dinged up as much…
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Author : Sooners Wire
Publish date : 2025-02-12 18:16:00
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