Last Saturday, the 2021 Oklahoma football season officially got underway The Sooners began their quest for a seventh consecutive Big 12 championship and 15th overall with a less than satisfying nonconference victory over a fired up Tulane team. Although the game on Saturday has no bearing on the Big 12 race, it does serve notice […]
Alex Grinch says 31 players saw action on defense this past weekend. That’s a lot of subbing in and out…
Happy Tuesday, friends and fans!
After a surprisingly poor showing in Saturday’s season opener, the Oklahoma Sooners have fallen from No. 2 to No. 4 in this week’s AP Top 25 Poll.
POLL ALERT: Georgia jumps to No. 2 behind Alabama as SEC goes 1-2 in latest AP Top 25 poll presented by @askRegions. Ohio St, Oklahoma, Texas A&M round out top five; Clemson out of top four for 1st time since 2017.
Around the Big 12, the Iowa State Cyclones also fell two spots to No. 9, and the Texas Longhorns rose six places to No. 15 after a solid showing against a ranked Louisiana squad. Meanwhile, the TCU Horned Frogs just missed the cut as the team with the most votes outside the poll.
Fortunately for OU, this weekend’s contest against Western Carolina shouldn’t pose any further threat to its ranking. Rather, this is an opportunity for a team that absolutely needs to address the multitude of issues that nearly cost it in shocking fashion. Sure, beating WCU 60-0 wouldn’t necessarily mean everything is fixed considering the competition, but after what happened against Tulane, the soul-searching Sooners have to start somewhere. If not, that meeting with a struggling Nebraska squad on the 18th could loom large for all the wrong reasons.
Now onto today’s Hot Links! Gabe Brkic earns conference player of the week honors, Mark Andrews inks an extension with Baltimore, the Texans name their starting QB and more!
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Here’s your friendly reminder to wear the right shirt if you plan on attending this Saturday’s game against Western Carolina. The plan is to stripe the stadium, but this time the goal is to make it resemble the American Flag. Make sure you double-check where your seat is on your ticket so you can help the Sooners make this possible.
Help us commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this weekend by striping the stadium like the American flag!
On Monday, redshirt junior placekicker Gabe Brkic was named Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week after setting several program benchmarks in Oklahoma’s season opening win over the Tulane Green Wave.
Prettaaay, pretty good:
▪️FBS record three FGs of 50+ yards ▪️School record four makes in a game ▪️56-yarder OU’s longest since 1977
During his weekly presser appearance, third year defensive coordinator Alex Grinch revealed that a total of 31 players saw snaps on defense in the season opener. Considering the apparent discombobulated state of things on that side of the ball practically all game long, that staggeringly high number makes sense. Honestly, that’s just absurd.
Grinch on defensive performance: “We played 31 guys. We don’t play 31 guys to get you more rest, we play 31 guys to get your absolute best.”#Sooners
QB Jalen Hurts has been named one of six team captains for the Philadelphia Eagles going into the 2021 NFL regular season. Congratulations to the second year pro!
A win is a win, as any college football coach will tell you, but the former No. 2 Oklahoma football team found out that a win can also cost you if you underperform in the process. The Sooners dropped down two spots, to No. 4, in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 and the Coaches […]
Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley opened his weekly press briefing on Tuesday with a statement of the obvious: “There’s a lot we need to get better at, and we’ve been very, very focused on that this week.” He followed that comment by saying he and his coaching staff haven’t turned a blind eye either on […]
With the move to the SEC official, Oklahoma football fans have a whole new group of opponents and iconic football venues to get used to. The Sooners already have a heated history with some of them. While with others, Oklahoma will look to build new rivalries and stories. The relocation of OU and Texas to […]
On a day when Oklahoma football as a team was not up to typical Sooner standards, kicker Gabe Brkic went above and beyond the call of duty. The Sooner junior placekicker converted four of five field goals, including three of longer than 50 yards. That performance earned Brkic Big 12 Special Teams Player of the […]
