Coming out of the 2024 season, the Oklahoma Sooners faced several questions as a program. It was a football team that faced incredible adversity due to injuries, which derailed the season and the development of their former five-star quarterback. It could have been very easy for the coaching staff and administration to simply chalk up the issues to injuries and hope things improved in 2025, but they didn’t. They were aggressive in the portal and in their offensive coordinator coaching search to help rebound an offense that left the defense hanging in a number of games. Brent Venables believes this is a team that has a chance to win every game on their schedule.
But there’s a lot of optimism surrounding the Oklahoma Sooners, not just locally, but at the national level as well. Bill Connelly over at ESPN believes that if a few things fall the Oklahoma Sooners’ way, they could be a team that contends in a wide-open SEC. Here’s what he had to say in his SEC season preview.
Even against a schedule featuring nine projected top-25 teams (!), the defense will give the Sooners a chance in most games. The offense’s improvement will determine whether they can actually win a few… The ridiculous schedule will put a ceiling on the win total, but the bar for improvement isn’t particularly high. – Connelly, ESPN
Connelly considers Alabama the favorites followed by Georgia, Texas, LSU, Ole Miss, and Tennessee. Oklahoma is in the second tier of contenders that are “a couple of breaks away from a run.” That group includes Texas A&M, South Carolina, Auburn, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
By every metric, the Oklahoma Sooners face one of the toughest schedules in the nation in 2025. But a lot of that is based on recent success and recruiting over the last few years. It’s not fully taking into account the turnover that a number of teams are…
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Publish date : 2025-07-27 19:43:00
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