Sunday Offering: Oklahoma Gearing Up for Crucial Official Visits
(by Payton Means) With the start of spring football now less than three weeks away and the spring transfer portal window set to open in April, Oklahoma coaches have turned up the heat on their recruiting in the 2026 and 2027 classes. Brent Venables and the OU staff have begun to line up official visits in Norman while continuing to get out...read more from Oklahoma Sooners on SI
SoonerScoop podcast: Feeling good about OU athletics?
(by Bob Przybylo) Sometimes the worst thing that can happen for OU fans is to have time. Being busy is good, doesn’t allow you to really examine things. But when football goes on break? You really see or debate where things stand. Not just with head coach Brent Venables or men’s basketball coach Porter Moser, but the whole athletic department...listen to podcast from the SoonerScoop
SIP Ep. 153 | DeMarco Murray draws interest from Penn State + Notes on various 2026 & 2027 targets
(by Josh Callaway) Sooners Illustrated's Josh Callaway and Collin Kennedy break down Penn State's reported interest in Penn State, dive into a batch of recruiting notes in between Under Armour events in Atlanta and Dallas and react to the news of JP Losman leaving Oklahoma for Washington...listen to podcast from Sooners Illustrated
NFL Combine Invites Three Oklahoma Players, Three Former Sooners
(by John E. Hoover) Three Oklahoma players and three former Sooners will be headed to the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine at the end of February. The three current OU players were expected — and all come from the defense. Safety Billy Bowman, defensive end Ethan Downs and linebacker Danny Stutsman will all report to Lucas Oil Stadium...read more from Oklahoma Sooners on SI
OU player personnel staffer JP Losman headed to Washington
(by Jesse Crittenden) Oklahoma is set to lose a significant member of its support staff. JP Losman, who is currently the Sooners' assistant director of player personnel, is joining the University of Washington as the program's new assistant quarterbacks coach. ESPN's Pete Thamel reported the move on Thursday morning. Losman joined...read more from the OUInsider
College Football Expert believes Oklahoma's offense will be much better in 2025
(by Aaron Gelvin) The Oklahoma Sooners must improve by leaps and bounds on offense in 2025 after their 2024 offense was the worst we'd seen in Norman since 1998. OU had the best defense they'd had in a long, long time last season, but the offense was so broken that the Sooners went just 6-7. Head coach Brent Venables can't survive...read more from the Sooners Wire
The latest on DeMarco Murray and Penn State
(by George Stoia) OU running backs coach DeMarco Murray is considered a top candidate for the same position at Penn State, according to On3’s Pete Nakos. But how seriously is Murray considering the job? According to SoonerScoop sources, Murray spoke to several members of Oklahoma’s coaching staff and administration Tuesday evening...read more from the SoonerScoop
Oklahoma's DeMarco Murray emerges as candidate for Penn State RB job
(by Pete Nakos) Multiple sources tell On3 that Oklahoma assistant DeMarco Murray and Penn State have been in communication about the Nittany Lions’ open running backs job. There is strong mutual interest between Murray and Penn State, sources said. In recent days, the former Oklahoma star and Dallas Cowboys running back has...read more from On3.com
College Football Playoff projection: Can John Mateer lead OU breakthrough in 2025 season?
(by Matt Hayes/USA Today) Four years, four remarkable and unthinkable years of seismic change in college football, and nothing is sacred. Not even Top 25 polls, which have become all but marginalized — save for a point of debate in the sport of arguing. College football is now all about the top 12, or the 12 teams that make up the...read more from The Oklahoman
Former Sooner great Lane Johnson earns second Super Bowl title
(by Aaron Gelvin) The final football game of the 2024 season, Super Bowl LIX, saw the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs by a final score of 40-22 in New Orleans. Three former Oklahoma Sooners were crowned champions on Sunday night, as Philadelphia denied Kansas City's three-peat bid. While newly-minted Super Bowl MVP...read more from Sooners Illustrated
Kirk Herbstreit reacts to Jalen Hurts, Eagles Super Bowl LIX win: 'They should make a movie about him one day'
(by Chandler Vessels) Kirk Herbstreit believes the Jalen Hurts story deserves to be made into a motion picture one day. The ESPN analyst has been watching Hurts since college and saw him win his first Super Bowl on Sunday, leading the Philadelphia Eagles to a dominant 40-22 victory against the Kansas City Chiefs. The quarterback finished...read more from On3.com
Sooners in the Super Bowl: Ecstasy for Jalen, Eagles, but Agony for Creed, Chiefs
(by John E. Hoover) For Jalen Hurts and Lane Johnson, it was football ecstasy. For Creed Humphrey, Samaje Perine, Hollywood Brown and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs, it was agony. In a Super Bowl rematch from two years ago, Hurts and a punishing Philadelphia defense roared past the two-time champions 40-22 in Super Bowl 59 on...read more from Oklahoma Sooners on SI
Eagles claim second Super Bowl title, defeat Chiefs 40-22
(by Gabriela Carroll) The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions once again. Nick Sirianni got a Gatorade bath with 2:52 left to play – that’s how dominant the Birds’ victory was in Super Bowl LIX. The Eagles led the Super Bowl wire-to-wire, dominating the Chiefs in a 40-22 victory. The Birds’ defensive line sacked Patrick Mahomes six times...read more from The Philadelphia Inquirer
A look at every Oklahoma Sooner in Super Bowl LIX, how to watch
(by Dekota Gregory) There will be more Oklahoma Sooners than anything else at Super Bowl LIX. Eight former OU players will compete on Super Bowl Sunday when the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs meet in New Orleans for the second time in three years. OU has more former players playing in the Super Bowl than any other college...read more from Stormin' in Norman
Oklahoma gets ultimate disrespect from Alabama
(by Dekota Gregory) The Alabama Crimson Tide gave the Oklahoma Sooners the biggest form of disrespect a football program can give another. Alabama on Friday announced that it scheduled the Sooners as its opponent for the Crimson Tide's homecoming game in 2025. The Crimson Tide will host OU on Nov. 15 in Tuscaloosa...read more from Stormin' in Norman
SoonerScoop podcast: Is this the final OU spring game?
(by Bob Przybylo) We’re so close to turning that corner to Stickball season at OU, but football won’t go away just yet. One more game, and OU is well represented. Best representation in the big game for the third straight season and guaranteed multiple champions. Remember signing day? It came and went with a whimper...listen to podcast from the SoonerScoop
Oklahoma Receives First Paycheck from SEC
(by John E. Hoover) Oklahoma received its first payment from the Southeastern Conference on Thursday, and more is on the way. Much more. The Sooners and the Texas Longhorns, who formally became SEC members on July 1, each received $27.5 million resulting from “transition payments derived from a combination of...read more from Oklahoma Sooners on SI
Lincoln Riley No Longer Elite??? | Brent Venables a Borderline Top 25 Head Coach?
Signing Day rewind: Oklahoma excited about what the future holds for 2025 linebacker Marcus James
(by Collin Kennedy) It's no secret: To say the Oklahoma Sooners have a linebacker-centric staff would be an understatement. But it became clear over the course of the 2025 cycle that OU was going to have a hard time landing multiple players at that position. The depth of the room at that time became well-known on the recruiting...read more from Sooners Illustrated
Signing Day rewind: OU sees Trent Wilson as 'one of the best defensive linemen in all of high school football'
(by Collin Kennedy) The lone defensive tackle recruit of 2025 for Oklahoma is an impressive get. And the Sooners might argue he's their favorite at the position across the country. Trent Wilson signed with OU during the December early signing period. As the February edition of National Signing Day passes, Sooner fans may forget to...read more from Sooners Illustrated
