Oklahoma’s Jackson Arnold looks up after geting sprayed with water following a University of Oklahoma (OU) Sooners spring football game at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, April 20, 2024.
The Oklahoma Sooners are about three weeks away from beginning the 2024 football season, their first as a member of the [autotag]SEC[/autotag]. Talking season and prediction season are almost over, but for now, we’ve still got a few more weeks of projections to go.
ESPN has been previewing the college football season, going conference-by-conference to look at each team. On Thursday, staff writers Chris Low and Mark Schlabach previewed the SEC, giving their power rankings and [autotag]College Football Playoff[/autotag] outlook for the conference.
The duo had the Sooners as the eighth-best team in the conference, matching up with ESPN’s Football Power Index and the SEC media poll. Here’s what they had to say about the Sooners landing in the middle of the league.
“In his third season at OU, [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] likes the experience on this team, with many players having been in the program for three years now,” Low and Schlabach said. “The Sooners’ schedule in Year 1 in the SEC is challenging, to say the least.”
The pair also had Oklahoma as a playoff “long shot” along with Texas A&M. In all, they believed three SEC teams should make the [autotag]CFP[/autotag] (Georgia, Texas and Alabama), with four more teams in the running (Ole Miss, Missouri, Tennessee and LSU), ahead of the Sooners and Aggies, who they believe have less of a chance.
“There’s no question the Sooners were better in Venables’ second season in 2023, but it might be rough sledding in Year 1 in the SEC,” they said. “Oklahoma faces a brutal road slate that includes games at Auburn, Ole Miss, Missouri and LSU, as well as home…
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Author : Sooners Wire
Publish date : 2024-08-08 23:00:08
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