As a lifetime Longhorn fan and UT alumn, I am confident that OU will be just fine. They’re one of the all-time winningest programs, and they are not suddenly going to forget how to fight hard and win their share. They’re rivals, but I respect them.
@@jefftink6219thank you so much for enlightening us all. We had no idea schedules matter. We see the challenge in front of us and so do those kids that keep on committing. We want this!
I'm a lifelong sooner fan and this much I know ou and texas will be good I agree with I res]respect the longhorns and I also believe nebraska will be back I respect the cornhuskers too
Never forget when Colin Cowherd said that Lincoln Riley leaving Oklahoma spelled the death of Oklahoma and the birth of a USC dynasty. Now he is begging for USC to quit scheduling Notre Dame because their schedule is too hard…
yes he said many things. then asked why that fanbase hates him. the fans were mad but Riley let a regressing defense completely fall apart. Grinch was a weird hire to keep.
These sports commentators are about as accurate as weathermen. They point out the obvious and dwell on it. Then they speculate ten different ways until they get it half way right after the fact. Bunch of silly dudes.
lol the fact that you have that kind of awareness says to me you know a lot more than Colin does regardless of how much you actually do know. Because that man doesn't have a clue, he just has incredibly bad opinions and a mic to show them off with 😁
Cowherd knows college football. His understanding of the big picutre is generally accurate and his opinions on it are novel but consistent so i find him refreshing. Does he make predictions that go wildly wrong? Yes Fairly often. But his take here on Oklahoma is on the money. I think them joining the SEC was a mistake, signing their own death warrant if you will.
As a Texas fan, Oklahoma will not go the way of Nebraska. They recruit too well in East Texas, particularly. There's 3 things for certain in East Texas towns, a Dairy Queen, a high-school football team, and an OU recruiter.
OU fan here, I honestly think that we were more likely to be the next Nebraska if we DIDN'T go to the SEC with Texas. Texas and A&M would sign most of the top 20 Texas recruits every year. This move gives OU continued access to those players, as well as, access to new players in the traditional SEC footprint. If we stayed in the Big 12, we would still get Texas recruits, but we would battle for Top 300 kids, instead of Top 100 kids.
@redline5406 Another thing, too, is I hope that with UT, A&M, and OU being in the SEC, it puts the brakes on other schools further away from getting the top talent. LSU recruits the Houston area well, and that'll probably continue to some degree. But hopefully, stop schools like Ohio State and ect. from poaching talent.
As an OU fan I 100% agree concerning tbow...but good riddance. BV has already shown he can out recruit tbow and he can out coach him. Tbow only knows offense and only a certain type other catches can and have figured put how to beat him. See Utah. Big 10 will be the end of his head coaching career. Whereas BV beat Bama more than once at its dynastic height and knows how to compete and win vs the sec.
I disagree on Lincoln Riley. He went where he knew he could get the money needed to recruit in the era of NIL. Not to mention any intelligent kid with a choice is going to pick LA over Norman,
I am a born and raised Oklahoma fan who married into a Husker family. He has a fundamental false premise concerning both programs. He does not understand Nebraska, because Nebraska’s biggest flaw for the past 20 years has been the fact that they do not have a shred of unity between the fans, school leadership, football leadership, and the football program. All the parts that matter in the equation have been pulling in opposite directions since the day Tom Osborne left the building. Nebraska has core issues that go far beyond the ability to recruit. Oklahoma is not even remotely comparable in the trajectory of the program and the vision and direction of its leadership and program. Joe Castiglione has proven to be one of the best if not the best AD in the country. Oklahoma’s last national title was one by beating 5 top 10 teams in one season. Champions don’t get born from easy schedules.
That last sentence says it all. Difference between OU and Riley is that they are running at the SEC, not running from it. As a fan, born and raised in Oklahoma in the 1970's, I have a huge amount of respect for Nebraska and what they have contributed to the history of college football. They have had 5 nattys and some of the toughest teams to play the game.
I agree with you about Nebraska. I would add that Nebraska lost a lot of their pipeline states in recruiting in the midwest and south going to the Big Ten. They had some good Texas players on their roster too but now they are getting players that they are not able to develop because the Brand of Nebraska is not there in every aspect. Which goes into the unity of playing for a prestigious Blue Blood hardnose defense sound team. Scott Frost had the defense but that offense couldn't help to save his life but that is a whole can of worms.
As a Texas fan, I can’t imagine a dumber take. We’re constantly battling OU for top tier talent. Hiring a defensive coach is a damn good idea when playing in the SEC. Kirby Smart and Nick Saban are both defensive coaches. Venebles knows what he’s doing. Losing Lincoln Riley was a blessing in disguise for them. OU will be fine. But also.. OU still sucks. 🤘
Boomer Sooner all day baby. Will enjoy getting another W come Red River this season. Texas ain’t gonna disappear either. Not like anyone is talking about that but im getting ahead of that. I don’t think the SEC is ready for the both of us. There will be hell to pay come conference play.
@@tommyjones774you do realize both coaches and players don’t care about bowl games anymore right? Or have you been living under a rock the past ten years?
@@tommyjones774 Lincoln Riley was literally 1 point away from losing every single second half game of last year's season with the Heisman winner. It's been a few years for him until he finally won a pointless holiday bowl. If it's not a playoff game no one plays in them anymore, that's why the CFP needed expansion. Lincoln Riley is the most made fun of coach on the national level. He has been absolutely murdered in four straight playoff games because of his weak, soft mentality and his strength and conditioning program. His players look like high school kids next to Bama and Georgia. Just go back and watch the games. There's a reason why his teams get absolutely bullied by SEC teams and soon to be BIG 10 teams. He has some of the most unphysical teams you'll ever see in your lifetime.
Nah, we're going to remember this. Literally for months after Riley left, Colin was on air almost everyday bashing OU, the fanbase, and riding Riley's jock. The receipts are coming.
Oklahoma doesn't recruit Texas kids, they recruit Southern Oklahoma kids. Fun fact, Wichita Falls to DFW is just a part of Oklahoma that happens to be located in Texas.
As Barry Switzer said when asked why TX would come to play for OU he " Even kids from TX should have a chance to play for championships". Oklahoma is small state population wise. But just take all the players that went to OSU and Tulsa as well. It is the same per captia as the "rich" states. That is not even counting DFW area. Draw a 5 hour drive around your campus. That is your home territory. OU did not lose anything by changing conferences.
True, and it's not that hard to understand. Cowherd has to spin things against those he hates. He uses his platform as a way to lash out anything he is slightly offended by.
You pretty much nailed it. I would just add the fact that we’ve continued to out recruit USC and have also taken guys they wanted, and they’ve failed to lock down some of the top California talent themselves 🤷♂️ his recruiting point is so off base it’s concerning.
I'm 100% convinced this guy doesn't believe a word he says, but he knows that coming after certain fanbases (OU being one of them) will get him all the attention he wants. He's nothing more than a troll or a talking tabloid. It's best to just ignore this clown.
Yes, Colin treats cfb like an afterthought. However, Josh himself has never said anything bad about any coach or program. His credibility isn't that great either.
He's too much of an out of touch coastal lib boomer to be a troll... He's just chasing relevance. Most of his rants are based on not being "stuck in the past." He knows his takes can be more than half wrong as long as they are fresh takes. He's actually the beginning of the modern clout chasing culture in sports commentary. He just does it a lot better than someone like Emmanuel ocho
No, UT and OU are attached at the hip, the knee, the waist, the forearm, and are pressing their foreheads against each other. They both went to the SEC together for a reason. UT and OU are simply intertwined. And thusly, OU will always be able to yoink kids out of at least north Texas. USC has Cali to draw from. Colin is just dumb. Even though he noted just prior that USC, Texas, Florida, etc., will never be dead because of their recruiting ground, he entirely forgets that UT and OU are brothers. That bicker a lot, but we are brothers. And OU gets to dip in and take kids from our state. 😂😂 It is what it is.
Oklahoma will ALWAYS have the fertile recruiting grounds of north Texas. Dallas/fort worth metro is a 2 hour drive to Norman. In fact Oklahoma just got a commitment from 5 star OL Michael fasusi from Texas today.
I didn't understand why he avoided Oklahoma athletes so much because there are a few really good ones every year and he destroyed all of the local high school relationships in Oklahoma. But to go to California and do the same exact thing at USC after making the excuse Oklahoma doesn't have the talent to win a championship........
Cowherd is one of those people who exist in the LA bubble and are completely out of touch with people and places outside of it, because it might as well be a wasteland to them. I'm a Texas fan and from DFW and got a good chuckle out of the "no instate talent" when I grew up in their pipeline area and know many people in DFW who are OU fans and attended OU.
Absolutely! Some of these national media guys speak with way too much confidence when they have never had boots on the ground. I think they disrespect Texas a ton also. The number of excellent high school programs and players in Texas insures that the recruiting bed will never run dry for several teams.
To me it's also crazy to pretend Oklahoma produces nothing at all, the most anticipated 5* DT Freshmen in CFB right now is David Stone from OKC. Does Oklahoma produce big numbers? No we have a population lower than DFW, but my State has a habit of picking the right in state kids and developing them. Creed Humphrey just as one example.
@@c-manthebarbarian2105 Amen! In the last 20 years the state of Oklahoma has produced: Two heisman trophy winners in Sam Bradford and Jason White Two top 3 NFL draft picks in Gerald McCoy and Sam Bradford Two Butkus award Winners in Teddy Lehman and Rocky Calmus A Biletnikoff Winner in Justin Blackmon 19 All Americans since 2000. The State may not have superior quantity, but the quality stacks up with anywhere!
He's kind of worse than a guy who's just in a bubble. If you ever try to sit through his podcast, it's actually very interesting to listen to how completely out of touch he is. He thinks LA is doing it right and the rest of the world are just behind the times. It's actually a pretty funny hate watch. Nick wright is even worse
Oklahoma only have 4 million people compared to 10 million in Georgia, 22mil in Florida, and 30mil in Texas. Of course we won't produce the same amount of elite talent
Maybe not the same amount but quality is still up there. Oklahoma high school football is still the big leagues. But what isn’t talked about enough is how the majority of the damn state is reservation land. All the money is put into the metropolitan area near Tulsa and OKC. I grew up in Southeast Oklahoma on Choctaw land and we always referred to Tulsa and OKC as “the city” to put things into perspective. But the love we have for football directly translates into the athletes we produce. Like I said there may not be as many but as far as the quality of football, it’s up there with all those other states because we live and breathe it in Oklahoma. It’s a simple, hard working, get it out the dirt culture
Exactly. There’s a lot of schools that have to depend on out of state recruiting. Alabama for example. Texas has great numbers of recruits, but look at all the top football schools fighting for them. It’s not easy for any of them.
Geography. North Texas kids can have friends and family in the stands EVERY Saturday they play in Norman. Nebraska lost that when leaving Big 12. Thats a long road trip. Oklahoma has a population 1/4 the size of Texas, and still supports 3 Division 1 schools.
I saw that take a year ago and immediately laughed. Anyone knows that in the DFW area there are as many Sooner fans then UT fans and parts of North Texas you might as well call it the State of Oklahoma. Nebraska was forced to give up its partial qualifier status back in the Mid 90s. Making recruiting kids from SE states to the Plains harder for them. Also why many Husker fans hate Texas to this day. Oklahoma does not have that problem. Their situations of national recruiting are of 2 diffrent scenarios and reasons Colin always seems like a guy who just says whatever as long as you pay him enough to say it and for ratings
Youre one of the best in the game at viewing situations without any bias. Oklahoma is better off in the SEC under Venables than under Lincoln riley in the big 12, may have less conference championships but we will win more Natty's
Just so we’re clear: OU-Norman has a population of ~28,000 students. Of that ~28,000, nearly 7,000 (25%) are from Texas. I couldn’t find the details on DFW, but it’s easy to surmise that DFW accounts for the largest portion of Texans attending OU. There is a large pipeline that is well established from DFW -> Norman. Jerry Jones himself stated that if he had exclusive rights to players from North Texas, the Cowboys would be perennial NFL champions.
There was an article last month on SI detailing OU's record against the SEC (all-time) and it's pretty interesting. In short, it's as follows: vs. Alabama 3-2-1; vs. Arkansas 10-4-1; vs. Auburn 2-0; vs. Florida 1-1; vs. Georgia 0-1; vs. Kentucky 2-1; vs. LSU 1-2; vs. Missouri 67-24-5; vs. Ole Miss 0-1; vs. Tennessee 3-1; vs. Texas A&M 19-12; Vanderbilt 2-0-1. OU has never played South Carolina or Mississippi State. This just goes to show that the SEC, while probably the most talented and deep conference in college football, isn't going to be this huge wall that OU is running into like a lot of media people are making it out to be. A couple of the losses (I'm looking at the recent disasters vs. Alabama and LSU) can be attributed to a very weak defense while Stinkin' Lincoln was in charge. That Georgia loss was also because of a weak defense, allowing those huge runs for TDs by Nick Chubb and Sony Michel basically untouched up the middle.
Oklahoma is at its best when it is playing the best. Big 12 was the best conference from 2000-2009. OU went to the national title 4 times that period of time. We'll be fine.
OU is tied to Texas, it's not going anywhere, that brand will stand test of time and I like BV as a coach, he's been on winning teams and knows what it takes to build a winning team
Annnddd Oklahoma just landed another 5 Star commit today…. Nebraska’s issue was when it left the Big 12, it lost its Brand, It’s identity, Culture, and recruiting footprint. They always recruited Texas very well. They also played games in Texas regularly. The kids in the Midwest didn’t grow up hearing about the Nebraska Blackshirts of old. They’ve grown up seeing Nebraska as Indiana 2.0 They went from being a respected ‘Blueblood’ in the Big 12, and lost that when they moved to the B1G. They became another face in a crowd. AND lost their biggest rivalries; Texas and especially Oklahoma.
I will never understand that move..... Maybe if they had the correct staff in place but you nailed it, they lost all of that almost overnight seemingly. They went from an absolute beast of a blue blood that was feared everywhere and had incredible rilveries and now even I view them as a nobody.
Nebraskas problem wasn't leaving the conference, it was the coaching hires and the lack of investment back into the program. The presidents at Nebraska wanted to pocket the income rather than put it back into facilities. Nebraska could have survived the move, but the hiring of Mike Riley was baffling.
@@Flakester The hiring of Riley was a mistake. But not near the level of the move to the B1G and the immediate and still lingering impact of the reasons listed above. I like Nebraska, easily my 2nd favorite team. Many in the fanbase still feel like they don’t fit, and had expressed openly that leaving the Big 12 was a mistake.
Back in the 1970s Barry Switzer once mused, " Offenses win you games , but defenses win you national championships" at that time had a Natty and was 33-0-1
Nebraska fell apart for so many reasons - the VAST majority don't apply to OU. Mostly, recruiting the state of Texas. Also, Nebraska was ahead of the curve on MANY aspects of cfb - facilities and strength training being the best examples - and most solid (let alone great) programs either equalled them or passed them by. But when thr Huskers went north, the couldn't recruit the skill players and others that aren't growm in Nebraska, and that killed them. OU - as you clearly state and CC clearly doesn't understand - is going in the extact opposite direction, and joining the SEC will help them.
What Colin didn't know is that we clearly had the wrong coach and thank goodness he left. Venables IS the right guy at the right time. If we still had Riley we would be screwed right now.
Texas and OU are going to surprise a lot of folks with how well they’ll fit in to the SEC. People thinking they’re in for an awakening just don’t know college football.
We’ve always had to convince players to come to Oklahoma. What other states (besides Texas & cali) most top tier teams have to venture out of state to get the majority of there roster.
Riley bailed because he didn't want to play in the SEC. Then, he tried to get out of playing LSU in Las Vegas. So, given that he avoided the SEC, he gets the B1G... so much for jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Nebraska tanked once they went to the Big10 bc that hurt their recruiting in Texas.... Oklahoma going to the SEC has ALREADY helped their recruiting. An OU kinda stopped recruiting Oklahoma HS players when Lincoln became the head coach. Now we are locking the top players up in-state and then recruiting nationally as well which is paying off so far.
Cowherd is the talk of the College football world. You guys are giving him more attention than he is worth. Cowherd for the win. Quit talking about him and he will go away. PLEASE quit talking about him.
Oklahoma has recruited nationally since Bud Wilkinson. The SEC is a better conference now because Nick Saban's quality of recruiting and the rise of competition as a result of what Saban built at Alabama.
While OU may not be as irrelevant longterm as Nebraska, they very well could enter into a decade of irrelevance and on the coaching carasouel. Tennessee did in the 2010's. Florida is in it now. Auburn is trying to climb out of it with recruiting before it gets stuck in irrelevance.
Oklahoma is a top three college football program of all time. Right there with Bama and Ohio State. It’s a joke to say Texas will never be left behind when they just had a decade of futility and pretends it’s possible for Oklahoma to get left behind.
I think ou will be fine, but the one thing I worry about is in the sec, it's harder to fail in a advantageous way, what I mean is there's only I national champion, which means teams need to get better and bring recruits despite failing most of the time, and the best way to do that is in the playoff, Ohio state hasn't won a national championship in a decade but has stayed at the top because they are in the playoffs every year, texas and oklahoma left the opportunity to be in the playoffs every year when they left the big 12, doesn't mean they can't carry that into the sec, but who do you have the better chance against? Alabama, Georgia or Oklahoma state and utah?
Great take! Spot on as usual. Kicking Colin clickbait Cowterd down the road! Now, I still have to take issue with your use of "all the sudden" when it's "all of a sudden!" Please, don't make us southerners look bad! Oklahoman here. Also, another pet peve of mine is the youngster desigantion of a Head Football Coach being called Head Ball Coach. Head Ball Coach of what? Why not just say Head Coach when the subject is football? Both are general desigantions but at least Head Coach is shorter and has a lot longer use in our language.
Cowherd is and always has been an Oklahoma hater. I don't know why. He said it's impossible to recruit at a high level at Oklahoma. We've consistently our recruited USC by a mile
I'm an OU fan and have no clue why that started circulating. I somehow missed people circulating it, and only saw people talking about it. I could only assume people thought he said it recently? It was a terrible take by him, and many of us Sooner fans remember back when he made it. But it's an old take, so it just seems odd to me that people are only deciding to talk about it now. Lol
Oklahoma has 4 Heisman trophy qb’s; 2 from Oklahoma, 2 from Texas. Oklahoma has 7 Heisman trophys overall, 4 from Oklahoma, 3 from Texas. More high school players from Texas have won more championships in Oklahoma than anywhere else. Cowherd is a lifelong OU hater.
When Colin was WRONG happens OFTEN!!!!! He runs JUST LIKE LINCOLN RILEY RAN and happens to be in love with him…To this day he still talks about him as though the last two years haven’t happened??!! LR stock is going downward and Colin is the only one standing by him…OU on the other hand, will continue to thrive!!! BV beat Bama and is absolutely not afraid of the SEC!! GO SOONERS 👏👏👏
Josh, I respect your opinion immensely. That being said, Colin was either going for the click bait OR just woefully misunderstanding OUs recruiting past. First off, OU has many All American players from Oklahoma. A little research is all that’s needed. 3 Heisman winners from OK. Secondly, OU has NEVER had to convince Texas players to come across the Red River. Most of Texas is pretty much been OUs home turf. OU is, in some ways, the 7th Flag over Texas. Next is this. OU recruits coast to coast perhaps better than any program. Evidence is on this roster. Cali, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, and a host of other states have been fertile recruiting grounds. Fact is that on a per capital basis, Oklahoma puts out a lot of talent! Again, fact check it and you will see that Oklahoma and Texas are near equal in that metric despite Oklahoma having far less percentage of African American players. Before anyone loses their mind, that is in no way a racist comment. The fact is that African American players are more prevalent in college and pro football. In 2022, 61% were non white, most of which are African American. Up from 51% in 2012. This is the primary reason why states (mostly southern) get recruited a higher frequency. Barry Switzer once said he could recruit Houston alone and get more players than the state of Oklahoma had to offer. Also, let’s not kid ourself, Florida, Cali, and Texas get natural rankings boosts because they are IN those states. Evidence is there available for this as well. Watched one player move from Texas to Oklahoma, lost a star. Moved back to Texas, gained it back despite having a statistically inferior year both years in Texas. Anyway, Colin is very simply wrong! Sorry about the soapbox rant. OU is and will have a bump in recruiting because many of these kids are now looking at the Sonners BECAUSE of them being in the SEC. I think it would be irrational to think OU is headed down a similar path to Nebraska.
Oklahoma is always going to be one of the top programs in the country and that isn't going to change because they're going to the SEC. In fact their recruiting is going to be even better now with that change.
Alright people I’m gonna hit you with facts! A Brent Venables lead OU team who can’t win in the Big 12 is not gonna win in the SEC. Check back later for more logical takes on CFB.
It can happen anywhere. Tennessee has been down the last 20 years. Look at florida and FSU right now. Michigan went through it. I don't think oklahoma is in that situation right now though.
Oklahoma only has 4 million people and not all can play football, alabama only has 5 million people. OU has never ever had a problem recruiting they are always in the top 10
Oklahoma has had to hire a new Head Coach and several other coaches to replace those who left with Lincoln Riley. They lost several key players who moved on to other teams besides those who followed Riley to USC. Brent Venables is a great coach and recruiter and has brought OU back into the national spotlight.
It’s weird that people forget Missouri and A&M were also big12 schools just over a decade ago. Ou handled them then and now they are doing just fine in the sec. I don’t understand why people cannot grasp that idea. If little brothers can do it, damn sure big brother can.
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As a lifetime Longhorn fan and UT alumn, I am confident that OU will be just fine. They’re one of the all-time winningest programs, and they are not suddenly going to forget how to fight hard and win their share. They’re rivals, but I respect them.
🤝 from a lifelong sooner fan I can't agree more. Great take sir
A real one
You’ll soon find out… schedules matter.
@@jefftink6219thank you so much for enlightening us all. We had no idea schedules matter.
We see the challenge in front of us and so do those kids that keep on committing. We want this!
I'm a lifelong sooner fan and this much I know ou and texas will be good I agree with I res]respect the longhorns and I also believe nebraska will be back I respect the cornhuskers too
Never forget when Colin Cowherd said that Lincoln Riley leaving Oklahoma spelled the death of Oklahoma and the birth of a USC dynasty.
Now he is begging for USC to quit scheduling Notre Dame because their schedule is too hard…
yes he said many things. then asked why that fanbase hates him. the fans were mad but Riley let a regressing defense completely fall apart. Grinch was a weird hire to keep.
...and I bet he sh!t his pants when he found out he was moving to the B1G suddenly... the style of football they play in the B1G is is his kryptonite
I have been amazed for years how Cowturd has kept his show as often as he is way off the mark.
lincoln riley is a fraud
He’s just being a homer for USC. One of the many reasons why I don’t listen to him
I know as much about nuclear engineering as Cowherd knows about college football
These sports commentators are about as accurate as weathermen.
They point out the obvious and dwell on it.
Then they speculate ten different ways until they get it half way right after the fact.
Bunch of silly dudes.
lol the fact that you have that kind of awareness says to me you know a lot more than Colin does regardless of how much you actually do know. Because that man doesn't have a clue, he just has incredibly bad opinions and a mic to show them off with 😁
Your hired
Cowherd knows college football. His understanding of the big picutre is generally accurate and his opinions on it are novel but consistent so i find him refreshing. Does he make predictions that go wildly wrong? Yes Fairly often.
But his take here on Oklahoma is on the money. I think them joining the SEC was a mistake, signing their own death warrant if you will.
@voiceofreason2674 You just said a lot of nothing. Oklahoma 120-49-3 vs sec all time. Say what now?
As a Texas fan, Oklahoma will not go the way of Nebraska. They recruit too well in East Texas, particularly. There's 3 things for certain in East Texas towns, a Dairy Queen, a high-school football team, and an OU recruiter.
OU fan here, I honestly think that we were more likely to be the next Nebraska if we DIDN'T go to the SEC with Texas. Texas and A&M would sign most of the top 20 Texas recruits every year. This move gives OU continued access to those players, as well as, access to new players in the traditional SEC footprint. If we stayed in the Big 12, we would still get Texas recruits, but we would battle for Top 300 kids, instead of Top 100 kids.
@redline5406 Another thing, too, is I hope that with UT, A&M, and OU being in the SEC, it puts the brakes on other schools further away from getting the top talent. LSU recruits the Houston area well, and that'll probably continue to some degree. But hopefully, stop schools like Ohio State and ect. from poaching talent.
I wouldn’t think so eventually NIL is going to have the final say regardless of conference.
As a long horns fan, I can honestly say, this was a horrible hot take by colin cowherd, but also lincoln riley ran from the SEC and everyone knows it.
As an OU fan I 100% agree concerning tbow...but good riddance. BV has already shown he can out recruit tbow and he can out coach him. Tbow only knows offense and only a certain type other catches can and have figured put how to beat him. See Utah. Big 10 will be the end of his head coaching career. Whereas BV beat Bama more than once at its dynastic height and knows how to compete and win vs the sec.
I disagree on Lincoln Riley. He went where he knew he could get the money needed to recruit in the era of NIL. Not to mention any intelligent kid with a choice is going to pick LA over Norman,
@@cjhan47fam we 1000% have more NIL money then usc😂😂an taxes is Oklahoma > taxes in California
@@cjhan47Bv have recruited 5 5 stars in 3 years how many has usc had ?
Riley ran from the SEC and wanted to avoid the LSU matchup
B10 says hi Rincoln...!!!
I am a born and raised Oklahoma fan who married into a Husker family.
He has a fundamental false premise concerning both programs.
He does not understand Nebraska, because Nebraska’s biggest flaw for the past 20 years has been the fact that they do not have a shred of unity between the fans, school leadership, football leadership, and the football program.
All the parts that matter in the equation have been pulling in opposite directions since the day Tom Osborne left the building.
Nebraska has core issues that go far beyond the ability to recruit.
Oklahoma is not even remotely comparable in the trajectory of the program and the vision and direction of its leadership and program. Joe Castiglione has proven to be one of the best if not the best AD in the country.
Oklahoma’s last national title was one by beating 5 top 10 teams in one season. Champions don’t get born from easy schedules.
That last sentence says it all. Difference between OU and Riley is that they are running at the SEC, not running from it. As a fan, born and raised in Oklahoma in the 1970's, I have a huge amount of respect for Nebraska and what they have contributed to the history of college football. They have had 5 nattys and some of the toughest teams to play the game.
Nebraska destroyed itself with awful coaching decisions, Oklahoma aside from Howard Schnellenberger and John Blake knows how to hire quality coaches
GD Adam, well said.
I agree with you about Nebraska. I would add that Nebraska lost a lot of their pipeline states in recruiting in the midwest and south going to the Big Ten. They had some good Texas players on their roster too but now they are getting players that they are not able to develop because the Brand of Nebraska is not there in every aspect. Which goes into the unity of playing for a prestigious Blue Blood hardnose defense sound team. Scott Frost had the defense but that offense couldn't help to save his life but that is a whole can of worms.
@@adamsanders2270 pulling out of playing in Texas for recruiting didn't help either
As a Texas fan, I can’t imagine a dumber take. We’re constantly battling OU for top tier talent. Hiring a defensive coach is a damn good idea when playing in the SEC. Kirby Smart and Nick Saban are both defensive coaches. Venebles knows what he’s doing. Losing Lincoln Riley was a blessing in disguise for them. OU will be fine.
But also.. OU still sucks. 🤘
best rivalry in football fs just a shame that we are better BOOMER
Boomer Sooner all day baby.
Will enjoy getting another W come Red River this season.
Texas ain’t gonna disappear either. Not like anyone is talking about that but im getting ahead of that. I don’t think the SEC is ready for the both of us. There will be hell to pay come conference play.
@@masonmorris3523second best. Go Blue!!
You’re pretty bright for a guy that cheers for the wrong team
Awhh 😍. What would we do without you land thieves?
Lincoln Riley left because *HE* knew *HE* couldn't hack it and *HE* couldn't sell the program. That's *HIS* problem. Not OU's.
Ou ain’t won a bowl game since Riley left
@@tommyjones774you do realize both coaches and players don’t care about bowl games anymore right? Or have you been living under a rock the past ten years?
@@tommyjones774 Lincoln Riley was literally 1 point away from losing every single second half game of last year's season with the Heisman winner. It's been a few years for him until he finally won a pointless holiday bowl. If it's not a playoff game no one plays in them anymore, that's why the CFP needed expansion. Lincoln Riley is the most made fun of coach on the national level. He has been absolutely murdered in four straight playoff games because of his weak, soft mentality and his strength and conditioning program. His players look like high school kids next to Bama and Georgia. Just go back and watch the games. There's a reason why his teams get absolutely bullied by SEC teams and soon to be BIG 10 teams. He has some of the most unphysical teams you'll ever see in your lifetime.
@@tommyjones774 Caleb Williams won just one bowl game as a player.
His coach in that game: Bob Stoops
@@tommyjones774are you forgetting ou got gutted with players leaving. You will be eating crow at the end of the year!!! Bet!!!!!!
Ou has the talent to win every game on their roster. They are stacked they are very underlooked.
Schedule**
They usually are underlooked, you'd think by now they would have the respect they not only earn but deserve
Thank you from a Sooners fan
Preach it. BOOMER SOONER
OU will have 7 losses this season. Hopefully not more.
Nah, we're going to remember this. Literally for months after Riley left, Colin was on air almost everyday bashing OU, the fanbase, and riding Riley's jock. The receipts are coming.
1. Cowherd has never liked Oklahoma so it's a biased opinion.
2. Cowherd has no idea why Riley REALLY left.
I heard Cowherd and Muleshoe were fuxking each other...but that's none of my business
Josh is 100% right.
Oklahoma doesn't recruit Texas kids, they recruit Southern Oklahoma kids.
Fun fact, Wichita Falls to DFW is just a part of Oklahoma that happens to be located in Texas.
RRR is realistically just a custody battle for DFW. We just package it better with a wearable trophy.
As Barry Switzer said when asked why TX would come to play for OU he " Even kids from TX should have a chance to play for championships". Oklahoma is small state population wise. But just take all the players that went to OSU and Tulsa as well. It is the same per captia as the "rich" states. That is not even counting DFW area. Draw a 5 hour drive around your campus. That is your home territory. OU did not lose anything by changing conferences.
OU recruits all over the country. Texas Cali East Coast etc. Cowherd is a talking head joke
True, and it's not that hard to understand. Cowherd has to spin things against those he hates. He uses his platform as a way to lash out anything he is slightly offended by.
north texas is basically south oklahoma
AMEN the DFW area is where a lot of OU players live, easy for friends and relatives to drive Norman and watch a player play. BOOMER SOONER!
@@rickyweber2651 Same here. I kjnow just as many OU season ticket holders in north texas then i do in OKLAHOMA
@@rickyweber2651Same for UT, toddler
Hardly
Stop listening to Hank Hill.....😅
Coward, he hates OKC Thunder and OU.....Credibility gone
You pretty much nailed it. I would just add the fact that we’ve continued to out recruit USC and have also taken guys they wanted, and they’ve failed to lock down some of the top California talent themselves 🤷♂️ his recruiting point is so off base it’s concerning.
I'm 100% convinced this guy doesn't believe a word he says, but he knows that coming after certain fanbases (OU being one of them) will get him all the attention he wants. He's nothing more than a troll or a talking tabloid. It's best to just ignore this clown.
Yes, Colin treats cfb like an afterthought. However, Josh himself has never said anything bad about any coach or program. His credibility isn't that great either.
Coward has US. blinders on. They suck dawg bawls and he only sees the shiny once was.
He's too much of an out of touch coastal lib boomer to be a troll...
He's just chasing relevance. Most of his rants are based on not being "stuck in the past." He knows his takes can be more than half wrong as long as they are fresh takes. He's actually the beginning of the modern clout chasing culture in sports commentary. He just does it a lot better than someone like Emmanuel ocho
usc gonna be the next team to take a dump
Very possible, I think it's very realistic that both Southern California schools take a dive in a Big Ten world.
@@mathompson53187 i think if LR would have stayed at OU, Colin would prolly be right.
@@SigmaNomad1620 Very true...the irony
No, UT and OU are attached at the hip, the knee, the waist, the forearm, and are pressing their foreheads against each other.
They both went to the SEC together for a reason. UT and OU are simply intertwined. And thusly, OU will always be able to yoink kids out of at least north Texas.
USC has Cali to draw from.
Colin is just dumb. Even though he noted just prior that USC, Texas, Florida, etc., will never be dead because of their recruiting ground, he entirely forgets that UT and OU are brothers. That bicker a lot, but we are brothers. And OU gets to dip in and take kids from our state. 😂😂
It is what it is.
USC own the big ten 😂get your facts straight
Oklahoma will ALWAYS have the fertile recruiting grounds of north Texas. Dallas/fort worth metro is a 2 hour drive to Norman. In fact Oklahoma just got a commitment from 5 star OL Michael fasusi from Texas today.
Riley and his staff totally disregarded the importance of keeping the in state kids at Oklahoma.
I didn't understand why he avoided Oklahoma athletes so much because there are a few really good ones every year and he destroyed all of the local high school relationships in Oklahoma. But to go to California and do the same exact thing at USC after making the excuse Oklahoma doesn't have the talent to win a championship........
Exactly!!! There is no way in hell that Josh Jacobs should’ve gotten out of the state
Cowherd is one of those people who exist in the LA bubble and are completely out of touch with people and places outside of it, because it might as well be a wasteland to them. I'm a Texas fan and from DFW and got a good chuckle out of the "no instate talent" when I grew up in their pipeline area and know many people in DFW who are OU fans and attended OU.
Absolutely! Some of these national media guys speak with way too much confidence when they have never had boots on the ground.
I think they disrespect Texas a ton also. The number of excellent high school programs and players in Texas insures that the recruiting bed will never run dry for several teams.
To me it's also crazy to pretend Oklahoma produces nothing at all, the most anticipated 5* DT Freshmen in CFB right now is David Stone from OKC.
Does Oklahoma produce big numbers? No we have a population lower than DFW, but my State has a habit of picking the right in state kids and developing them.
Creed Humphrey just as one example.
@@c-manthebarbarian2105 Amen!
In the last 20 years the state of Oklahoma has produced:
Two heisman trophy winners in Sam Bradford and Jason White
Two top 3 NFL draft picks in Gerald McCoy and Sam Bradford
Two Butkus award Winners in Teddy Lehman and Rocky Calmus
A Biletnikoff Winner in Justin Blackmon
19 All Americans since 2000.
The State may not have superior quantity, but the quality stacks up with anywhere!
He's kind of worse than a guy who's just in a bubble. If you ever try to sit through his podcast, it's actually very interesting to listen to how completely out of touch he is. He thinks LA is doing it right and the rest of the world are just behind the times. It's actually a pretty funny hate watch. Nick wright is even worse
Oklahoma only have 4 million people compared to 10 million in Georgia, 22mil in Florida, and 30mil in Texas. Of course we won't produce the same amount of elite talent
Maybe not the same amount but quality is still up there. Oklahoma high school football is still the big leagues. But what isn’t talked about enough is how the majority of the damn state is reservation land. All the money is put into the metropolitan area near Tulsa and OKC. I grew up in Southeast Oklahoma on Choctaw land and we always referred to Tulsa and OKC as “the city” to put things into perspective. But the love we have for football directly translates into the athletes we produce. Like I said there may not be as many but as far as the quality of football, it’s up there with all those other states because we live and breathe it in Oklahoma. It’s a simple, hard working, get it out the dirt culture
Exactly. There’s a lot of schools that have to depend on out of state recruiting. Alabama for example. Texas has great numbers of recruits, but look at all the top football schools fighting for them. It’s not easy for any of them.
Geography. North Texas kids can have friends and family in the stands EVERY Saturday they play in Norman. Nebraska lost that when leaving Big 12. Thats a long road trip. Oklahoma has a population 1/4 the size of Texas, and still supports 3 Division 1 schools.
I saw that take a year ago and immediately laughed. Anyone knows that in the DFW area there are as many Sooner fans then UT fans and parts of North Texas you might as well call it the State of Oklahoma. Nebraska was forced to give up its partial qualifier status back in the Mid 90s. Making recruiting kids from SE states to the Plains harder for them. Also why many Husker fans hate Texas to this day. Oklahoma does not have that problem. Their situations of national recruiting are of 2 diffrent scenarios and reasons
Colin always seems like a guy who just says whatever as long as you pay him enough to say it and for ratings
Colin says things for ratings a hot takes. Not to be taken seriously when it comes to college football
Cowherd? Wrong? Nah, couldn't be lol
Youre one of the best in the game at viewing situations without any bias. Oklahoma is better off in the SEC under Venables than under Lincoln riley in the big 12, may have less conference championships but we will win more Natty's
Just so we’re clear: OU-Norman has a population of ~28,000 students. Of that ~28,000, nearly 7,000 (25%) are from Texas. I couldn’t find the details on DFW, but it’s easy to surmise that DFW accounts for the largest portion of Texans attending OU. There is a large pipeline that is well established from DFW -> Norman. Jerry Jones himself stated that if he had exclusive rights to players from North Texas, the Cowboys would be perennial NFL champions.
There was an article last month on SI detailing OU's record against the SEC (all-time) and it's pretty interesting. In short, it's as follows: vs. Alabama 3-2-1; vs. Arkansas 10-4-1; vs. Auburn 2-0; vs. Florida 1-1; vs. Georgia 0-1; vs. Kentucky 2-1; vs. LSU 1-2; vs. Missouri 67-24-5; vs. Ole Miss 0-1; vs. Tennessee 3-1; vs. Texas A&M 19-12; Vanderbilt 2-0-1. OU has never played South Carolina or Mississippi State. This just goes to show that the SEC, while probably the most talented and deep conference in college football, isn't going to be this huge wall that OU is running into like a lot of media people are making it out to be. A couple of the losses (I'm looking at the recent disasters vs. Alabama and LSU) can be attributed to a very weak defense while Stinkin' Lincoln was in charge. That Georgia loss was also because of a weak defense, allowing those huge runs for TDs by Nick Chubb and Sony Michel basically untouched up the middle.
And that article should’ve noted that Oklahoma is 8-6 since 2000 against the SEC, 0-3 against them in the CFP
There are twice as many people in the Houston metro area than the entire state of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is at its best when it is playing the best. Big 12 was the best conference from 2000-2009. OU went to the national title 4 times that period of time. We'll be fine.
OU is tied to Texas, it's not going anywhere, that brand will stand test of time and I like BV as a coach, he's been on winning teams and knows what it takes to build a winning team
Annnddd Oklahoma just landed another 5 Star commit today….
Nebraska’s issue was when it left the Big 12, it lost its Brand, It’s identity, Culture, and recruiting footprint. They always recruited Texas very well. They also played games in Texas regularly. The kids in the Midwest didn’t grow up hearing about the Nebraska Blackshirts of old. They’ve grown up seeing Nebraska as Indiana 2.0
They went from being a respected ‘Blueblood’ in the Big 12, and lost that when they moved to the B1G. They became another face in a crowd. AND lost their biggest rivalries; Texas and especially Oklahoma.
I will never understand that move..... Maybe if they had the correct staff in place but you nailed it, they lost all of that almost overnight seemingly. They went from an absolute beast of a blue blood that was feared everywhere and had incredible rilveries and now even I view them as a nobody.
Nebraskas problem wasn't leaving the conference, it was the coaching hires and the lack of investment back into the program. The presidents at Nebraska wanted to pocket the income rather than put it back into facilities.
Nebraska could have survived the move, but the hiring of Mike Riley was baffling.
@@Flakester The hiring of Riley was a mistake. But not near the level of the move to the B1G and the immediate and still lingering impact of the reasons listed above. I like Nebraska, easily my 2nd favorite team.
Many in the fanbase still feel like they don’t fit, and had expressed openly that leaving the Big 12 was a mistake.
As soon as TBOW left, I screamed at the top of my lungs, GO GET VENABLES. SOOOO glad they did. BOOMER
Back in the 1970s Barry Switzer once mused, " Offenses win you games , but defenses win you national championships" at that time had a Natty and was 33-0-1
Lincoln Riley’s offense would not have stood up in the SEC. So glad he jumped ship.
It’s funny how “Texas will never be left behind” like they weren’t an afterthought for the last 15years
Nebraska fell apart for so many reasons - the VAST majority don't apply to OU.
Mostly, recruiting the state of Texas. Also, Nebraska was ahead of the curve on MANY aspects of cfb - facilities and strength training being the best examples - and most solid (let alone great) programs either equalled them or passed them by.
But when thr Huskers went north, the couldn't recruit the skill players and others that aren't growm in Nebraska, and that killed them.
OU - as you clearly state and CC clearly doesn't understand - is going in the extact opposite direction, and joining the SEC will help them.
Fun fact. Cowherds ex-wife is from Oklahoma.
What did Nebraska in was the elimination of the partial qualifier. Oklahoma doesn't have to deal with that.
The whole state of Texas is Baja Oklahoma! 🎉
We here in SoonerNation don't pay much attention to Colin Cowturd.
What Colin didn't know is that we clearly had the wrong coach and thank goodness he left. Venables IS the right guy at the right time. If we still had Riley we would be screwed right now.
You earned my sub on this one Josh. Cowherd is getting clicks off controversial takes based on a little data
Texas and OU are going to surprise a lot of folks with how well they’ll fit in to the SEC. People thinking they’re in for an awakening just don’t know college football.
Oklahoma not texas
Yeah they’re going to surprise people by how overrated they were.
Both are not going to finish better than .750 at best this year maybe Texas might but I wouldn't bet on it sec is a diff animal 😂
@@ROUGHNECK75 c'mon man... i'm high on yall this year. i can analyze without fandom getting in the way
secsec had to change the rules last time the touch football teams got added bc their fat boys couldn't breathe... it was toooo fassssst
the way colin talks you would think oklahoma is bordering canada, in reality norman is basically the same distance to dallas that austin is to dallas.
We’ve always had to convince players to come to Oklahoma. What other states (besides Texas & cali) most top tier teams have to venture out of state to get the majority of there roster.
correct me if im wrong, but Nebraska wasn the power house it use to be, and handn't been for some time when it left the big 12 no?
Really well said
Riley bailed because he didn't want to play in the SEC. Then, he tried to get out of playing LSU in Las Vegas. So, given that he avoided the SEC, he gets the B1G... so much for jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
As an OU alum, I appreciate your response to this terrible take.
lol people don’t understand Texas is a huge state. I live in Wichita Falls on the red river and there are more OU and tech fans here than Texas
Nebraska tanked once they went to the Big10 bc that hurt their recruiting in Texas.... Oklahoma going to the SEC has ALREADY helped their recruiting. An OU kinda stopped recruiting Oklahoma HS players when Lincoln became the head coach. Now we are locking the top players up in-state and then recruiting nationally as well which is paying off so far.
Every program convinces player’s to go to their school , it’s called recruiting.
Cowherd is the talk of the College football world. You guys are giving him more attention than he is worth.
Cowherd for the win. Quit talking about him and he will go away.
PLEASE quit talking about him.
In college you always have to convince kids to join your school. No matter how many kids are in your state.
Oklahoma has recruited nationally since Bud Wilkinson. The SEC is a better conference now because Nick Saban's quality of recruiting and the rise of competition as a result of what Saban built at Alabama.
Damn I feel like he was reading my mind on this
OU recruiting Texas is not new! Switzer’s teams in the 70’s and 80’s were 75% Texas players
While OU may not be as irrelevant longterm as Nebraska, they very well could enter into a decade of irrelevance and on the coaching carasouel. Tennessee did in the 2010's. Florida is in it now. Auburn is trying to climb out of it with recruiting before it gets stuck in irrelevance.
Oklahoma is a top three college football program of all time. Right there with Bama and Ohio State. It’s a joke to say Texas will never be left behind when they just had a decade of futility and pretends it’s possible for Oklahoma to get left behind.
Colin Cowturd spreading his "wisdom".
Spot on analysis.
I think ou will be fine, but the one thing I worry about is in the sec, it's harder to fail in a advantageous way, what I mean is there's only I national champion, which means teams need to get better and bring recruits despite failing most of the time, and the best way to do that is in the playoff, Ohio state hasn't won a national championship in a decade but has stayed at the top because they are in the playoffs every year, texas and oklahoma left the opportunity to be in the playoffs every year when they left the big 12, doesn't mean they can't carry that into the sec, but who do you have the better chance against? Alabama, Georgia or Oklahoma state and utah?
colin is still salty about baker sonning him on him own show lol. Hes be a dedicated hater ever since.
Great take! Spot on as usual. Kicking Colin clickbait Cowterd down the road! Now, I still have to take issue with your use of "all the sudden" when it's "all of a sudden!" Please, don't make us southerners look bad! Oklahoman here. Also, another pet peve of mine is the youngster desigantion of a Head Football Coach being called Head Ball Coach. Head Ball Coach of what? Why not just say Head Coach when the subject is football? Both are general desigantions but at least Head Coach is shorter and has a lot longer use in our language.
Nailed it as always.
Cowherd is and always has been an Oklahoma hater. I don't know why. He said it's impossible to recruit at a high level at Oklahoma. We've consistently our recruited USC by a mile
The funny part is USC literally is already that other team
Ou has recruited some all time great Texas recruits . Petersen Billy simms the box, Kenneth Murray , cede lamb , Kyler Murray
I'm an OU fan and have no clue why that started circulating. I somehow missed people circulating it, and only saw people talking about it. I could only assume people thought he said it recently?
It was a terrible take by him, and many of us Sooner fans remember back when he made it. But it's an old take, so it just seems odd to me that people are only deciding to talk about it now. Lol
Come on Bro, it's not fair for him to try and match your College Football Knowledge!
Josh converting himself into an Oklahoma fan more and more every week😂
Great Video!
Oklahoma has 4 Heisman trophy qb’s; 2 from Oklahoma, 2 from Texas. Oklahoma has 7 Heisman trophys overall, 4 from Oklahoma, 3 from Texas.
More high school players from Texas have won more championships in Oklahoma than anywhere else. Cowherd is a lifelong OU hater.
When Colin was WRONG happens OFTEN!!!!! He runs JUST LIKE LINCOLN RILEY RAN and happens to be in love with him…To this day he still talks about him as though the last two years haven’t happened??!! LR stock is going downward and Colin is the only one standing by him…OU on the other hand, will continue to thrive!!! BV beat Bama and is absolutely not afraid of the SEC!! GO SOONERS 👏👏👏
Josh, I respect your opinion immensely. That being said, Colin was either going for the click bait OR just woefully misunderstanding OUs recruiting past. First off, OU has many All American players from Oklahoma. A little research is all that’s needed. 3 Heisman winners from OK. Secondly, OU has NEVER had to convince Texas players to come across the Red River. Most of Texas is pretty much been OUs home turf. OU is, in some ways, the 7th Flag over Texas. Next is this. OU recruits coast to coast perhaps better than any program. Evidence is on this roster. Cali, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, and a host of other states have been fertile recruiting grounds. Fact is that on a per capital basis, Oklahoma puts out a lot of talent! Again, fact check it and you will see that Oklahoma and Texas are near equal in that metric despite Oklahoma having far less percentage of African American players. Before anyone loses their mind, that is in no way a racist comment. The fact is that African American players are more prevalent in college and pro football. In 2022, 61% were non white, most of which are African American. Up from 51% in 2012. This is the primary reason why states (mostly southern) get recruited a higher frequency. Barry Switzer once said he could recruit Houston alone and get more players than the state of Oklahoma had to offer. Also, let’s not kid ourself, Florida, Cali, and Texas get natural rankings boosts because they are IN those states. Evidence is there available for this as well. Watched one player move from Texas to Oklahoma, lost a star. Moved back to Texas, gained it back despite having a statistically inferior year both years in Texas. Anyway, Colin is very simply wrong! Sorry about the soapbox rant. OU is and will have a bump in recruiting because many of these kids are now looking at the Sonners BECAUSE of them being in the SEC. I think it would be irrational to think OU is headed down a similar path to Nebraska.
Colin is an NFL guy. And he just says whatever is in favor of California teams
Oklahoma is always going to be one of the top programs in the country and that isn't going to change because they're going to the SEC. In fact their recruiting is going to be even better now with that change.
Pate State is 100% correct. Colin just says stuff 😂
Oklahoma is going to enjoy losing 4-5 games per year from now on.
There is a lot of Crimson and Cream in north Texas. Baker Mayfield's family lives in austin and they are huge sooner fans before baker went OU
Alright people I’m gonna hit you with facts! A Brent Venables lead OU team who can’t win in the Big 12 is not gonna win in the SEC. Check back later for more logical takes on CFB.
Let this man cook.
It can happen anywhere. Tennessee has been down the last 20 years.
Look at florida and FSU right now.
Michigan went through it.
I don't think oklahoma is in that situation right now though.
Tulsa mentioned!
Josh Pate Knows Ball
I agree Oklahoma will not make playoffs in first 5 years in SEC and may miss bowl season altogether this year. SEC is going to kill Oklahoma
Also BV has out recruited TBOW 3 years in a row!
OU has been recruiting largely down South into Texas for YEARS. Ask Switzer, he knows all about that.
Oklahoma is going to be just fine.
Oklahoma only has 4 million people and not all can play football, alabama only has 5 million people. OU has never ever had a problem recruiting they are always in the top 10
I expect everything colin cowheard says to be proven wrong.
Oklahoma has had to hire a new Head Coach and several other coaches to replace those who left with Lincoln Riley. They lost several key players who moved on to other teams besides those who followed Riley to USC. Brent Venables is a great coach and recruiter and has brought OU back into the national spotlight.
It’s weird that people forget Missouri and A&M were also big12 schools just over a decade ago. Ou handled them then and now they are doing just fine in the sec. I don’t understand why people cannot grasp that idea. If little brothers can do it, damn sure big brother can.
They could very well go 5-6 this year. Not predicting. Just went down the schedule on a could lose basis.