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Oklahoma football looked in prime position to keep a local talent home. One four-star from Norman had the Sooners on his short list. Washington claims the college football recruiting victory, however. Wide receiver Mason James opts for the Huskies over OU, with James announcing Thursday afternoon. Recruiting insider Hayes Fawcett of On3 revealed James listed […]

The Oklahoma football team continued its momentum on the recruiting trail on Tuesday with another commitment as three-star 2026 cornerback Derrick Johnson announced that he will play for the Sooners. Johnson had previously narrowed his list of college options down to four schools, and Oklahoma, Washington, UCLA and TCU were the teams still alive. At […]

Oklahoma football head coach Brent Venables has had a roller coaster of a start in three seasons with Oklahoma. He has two 6-7 seasons and a 10-3 season sandwiched in the middle, proving he’s shown his potential as a coach, but an ability to sustain that momentum has been far more difficult. This upcoming season […]

Oklahoma football’s second season in the SEC will be a pivotal one for head coach Brent Venables, who enters his third year at the helm with pressure mounting. Under Venables, the Sooners are 22–17 and have posted just one winning season. That track record won’t be tolerated in Norman much longer. Last season, Oklahoma navigated […]

Brent Venables is getting ready for his fourth season as the head coach of the Oklahoma football team, and it’s a crucial one. Venables was the defensive coordinator at Clemson before coming to Norman in 2022, and his tenure hasn’t seen a lot of success. The Sooners did win 10 games in 2023, but after […]

After a disappointing first season in the SEC, Brent Venables and Oklahoma football are gearing up for a major improvement in 2025. The Sooners have redone their backfield with the additions of star quarterback John Mateer (Washington State) and running back Jaydn Ott (California). However, Oklahoma knows that in order to compete for championships in […]

Brent Venables is no stranger to calling a strategic and strong defense. After Venables was hired by Oklahoma football, the program has been a bit fickle. They’ve had some success, but nothing that could be sustained. However, he made an interesting decision this offseason. Venables announced he would call the Oklahoma football defense once again. […]

The college football landscape is constantly changing in this current era, and in order to adapt, a popular strategy for teams has been hiring a general manager. The Oklahoma football team decided to go that route as they hired Jim Nagy to be their new GM. Nagy has been the executive director of the Senior […]

Brent Venables is about to enter his fourth season as the head coach of the Oklahoma football team, and outside of a decent 2023 season, his tenure has been disappointing. The Sooners did go 10-3 with a win against Texas in 2023, but that season is sandwiched between two 6-7 years. Meanwhile, the Longhorns have […]

Oklahoma football head coach Brent Venables is making a major play-calling decision ahead of the 2025 season. The Sooners have had a successful offseason, which has led some experts to believe they could be a dark horse College Football Playoff slot. Hopefully, those predictions are correct, as the fourth-year head coach needs a much better […]

The Oklahoma football program had an up and down 2024 season, concluding with a tough loss against LSU in Death Valley but also including some huge wins, including most notably a blowout victory over Alabama. Oklahoma ultimately finished the season at 6-6 in their first full campaign as members of the SEC, and are now […]

Oklahoma football quarterback Jackson Arnold might already have a new school in mind only a few days after putting his name in the transfer portal. The Sooners’ starter for much of the year is leaving head coach Brent Venables after a disappointing season in Norman. Despite the struggles, Arnold is a very talented quarterback, and […]

Oklahoma football fans are getting excited about the Sooners’ future on offense after the hiring of Ben Arbuckle. The former OC at Washington State is set to bring new life to Brent Venables’ team, which struggled offensively under first-year starter Jackson Arnold. Based on recent speculations about the Sooners’ quarterback situation, the former 5-star recruit’s […]

Oklahoma football pulled off the unthinkable on Saturday, absolutely dominating College Football Playoff hopefuls Alabama by a score of 24-3. It was definitely one of the biggest Week 13 upsets and after the game, head coach Brent Venables revealed the key to the Sooners taking home the victory. Venables said Oklahoma was the “more physical […]

Oklahoma football is rounding out the final stretch of a lost season at 5-5 and 1-5 in the SEC. As head coach Brent Venables continues balancing the hefty duties for the Sooners’ current roster and the potential talent that could be arriving in the offseason, there was a bit of a hiccup on the recruiting front […]

Oklahoma football coach Brent Venables says his wife’s cancer has returned, per On3. Venables’ spouse had surgery in recent days to remove a tumor. She had found out about the return of the cancer in May, before the college football season. “Last Monday she had surgery to remove her lymph nodes and her tumor, and […]

Oklahoma football head coach Brent Venables just got a strong endorsement from OU president Joseph Harroz Jr. While the Sooners have had a tough first season in the SEC, concerns about the head coach’s job security have seemingly been shut down. According to On3 Sports OU reporter George Stoia III, Harroz Jr. clarified his support for […]

Nobody expected that life would be easy for the Oklahoma Sooners as they made the transition from the Big 12 to the SEC. But in Norman, you would’ve been hard-pressed to find anyone who thought that a season that would end without an appearance in a bowl game was on the horizon. But that’s exactly […]

Oklahoma football head coach Brent Venables provided an injury update on a pair of Sooners players on Monday ahead of the team’s upcoming matchup against the Missouri Tigers. And it is an optimistic one for those rooting for the Sooners, via George Stoia III of On3 Sports. “When asked about the chance of Deion Burks […]

Oklahoma football suffered another tough injury break ahead of their huge clash against No. 18 Ole Miss. Head coach Brent Venables’ embattled program is looking to snap a two-game losing streak following lopsided defeats to Texas and South Carolina. Unfortunately, the 4-3 Sooners will most likely be without wideout Deion Burks. The junior receiver, who […]

In Oklahoma’s last two games, they’ve combined for a dismal 12 points—an alarming offensive slump that has prompted head coach Brent Venables to turn back to Jackson Arnold as the starting quarterback for Week 9 against No. 18 Ole Miss. Arnold was touted as the future of Oklahoma football, the next great quarterback in a […]

Oklahoma football has dropped to 4-3, and 1-3 in the SEC with the 35-9 blowout loss to South Carolina in Week 8. Head coach Brent Venables gave the real reason behind his team’s struggles in the 2024-25 season. The Sooners have posted just 12 points in their previous two games, with only one touchdown. “We’ve […]

In front of 83,331 fans at Memorial Stadium, the Oklahoma Sooners suffered their worst home loss in a decade on Saturday afternoon at the hands of the South Carolina Gamecocks. A 35-9 defeat, in which the Sooners turned the ball over four times, prompted Sooners head coach Brent Venables to proclaim after the game that the […]

In just over five minutes of action on Saturday afternoon, the Oklahoma football team was staring down a 21-point deficit thanks in part to a pair of turnovers — a fumble and an interception — that the South Carolina Gamecocks took back for touchdowns. Down in Columbia, South Carolina, folks will tell you that’s just […]

Oklahoma football was forced to make a quarterback change early this season. True freshman Michael Hawkins Jr. replaced Jackson Arnold during the Sooners’ loss to Tennessee after Arnold had struggled mightily to move the ball. The results for the offense as a whole with Hawkins Jr. at the helm have been mixed, but the youngster […]

When the college football season started, fans had their eyes on week seven because of the loaded slate. Almost every conference had big games featuring ranked teams, and we had a good amount of top-25 matchups all around college football. One of the biggest games of the weekend was a rivalry game between the Oklahoma […]

On Saturday afternoon, the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners will face off on the gridiron for the 120th time. While it may not be the sport’s longest-running rivalry, it would be awfully easy to make the case that the Red River Rivalry defines college football as much, if not more, than any other. Everyone involved is surely […]

Oklahoma football redshirt sophomore wide receiver Nic Anderson (quad) is expected to miss several more weeks, according to 247 Sports’ Matt Zenitz. Anderson entered the season dealing with this injury and attempted to return during Oklahoma’s 25-15 Week 4 loss to the Tennessee Volunteers. He could only play two snaps before heading to the locker […]

The Oklahoma football team and Texas are both on bye weeks right now, but they will meet in the Red River Rivalry for their next matchup on October 12th. This is one of the most bitter rivalries in all of college football, and both the Sooners and Longhorns know that it means more than other […]

Brent Venables hasn’t necessarily had the smoothest start to his tenure as the head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners. Venables went 6-7 in his first year in Norman, coaching the Sooners to their first losing season since 1998. Last year, he got Oklahoma back on track, winning 10 games which included an upset victory over Texas […]

Oklahoma football is taking a new direction. Quarterback Michael Hawkins will start in Week 5 against the Auburn Tigers. Hawkins gets the green light at the expense of Jackson Arnold, who started for Oklahoma in their first three games. In response to benching Arnold, head coach Brent Venables was sure to point out he still has […]

Oklahoma football and quarterback Jackson Arnold struggled in Saturday’s 25-15 loss to the Tennessee Volunteers in the first half. Sooners head coach Brent Venables opted to bench Arnold after a string of poor play. Michael Hawkins came in and steadied the offense, completing 11-of-18 passes for 132 yards and a touchdown. After reviving the offense […]

This past Saturday, Oklahoma football (3-1) got the “welcome to the SEC” treatment from one of the league’s more unlikely members. Offensive juggernaut Tennessee (4-0) went against type and dished out a dominant defesnive showing on the road, winning 25-15 in Norman’s Gaylord Family- Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Beyond what the scoreboard illustrated, the evidence of […]

Oklahoma football head coach Brent Venables shared a dispiriting injury update on one of their key defensive players. Senior cornerback Kendel Dolby, who was carted off in the team’s Week 4 loss to Tennessee, has suffered a dislocated ankle. The injury will reportedly require surgery, per Dan Morrison of On3 Sports. “Lost some guys early […]

Jackson Arnold’s first appearance on the big stage as Oklahoma’s full-time starting quarterback went about as badly as it could have. The former five-star recruit completed just 7-of-16 passes for 54 yards and one ugly interception, and he lost two fumbles as well. Head coach Brent Venables benched Arnold for Michael Hawkins Jr. late in […]

The biggest game of Week 4 on the college football slate will take place on Saturday night when No. 15 Oklahoma hosts No. 6 Tennessee in an SEC matchup with big implications. Before the game, Brent Venables and the Sooners are getting some helpful tips from an experienced source. Nick Saban used to be the […]

The battle between the Oklahoma football program and the Tennessee football squad is surely going to be intense. Both are ranked teams with the Vols placed at sixth and the Sooners ranked at 15th. But, some are more excited about Josh Heupel’s return to his alma mater than the actual football that will go on. […]

Oklahoma football coach Brent Venables is giving a ringing endorsement to a new SEC foe. The Sooners head coach thinks that Tennessee is one of the best teams his squad will face all season. “It’s hard to say anyone is playing better in the country right now than Tennessee,” Venables said, per On3. The Sooners […]

Oklahoma football fans thought their days of being worried about Big 12 teams like Houston were behind them once they left for the SEC this season. However, Saturday’s game against Houston proved otherwise. The No. 15 Sooners narrowly escaped with a 16-12 win over the Cougars at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. […]