Though the Sooners' offense wasn't high-flying in the back half of the regular season, they regularly produced big plays in big moments.

Oklahoma defensive end Taylor Wein says the Sooners' will have the "same mentality" in the College Football Playoff opener after winning several elimination games down the stretch following their second loss of the year to Ole Miss in late October.

What several OU football players did last month on Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium didn't go unnoticed, or forgotten, by Alabama football players.

There is question about whether or not Heinecke could be playing in his final year of college football. The Tulsa native who has come on spectacularly in Brent Venables' vaunted corps of linebackers in 2025 has been at Oklahoma since 2022, but only started playing in 2023.

Venables was hired by Bob Stoops and Oklahoma in 1999 to be the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. He shared the DC position with Stoops’ brother, Mark Stoops. When the latter took over the head job at Arizona in 2004, Venables assumed the sole OU DC position.

OU football linebacker Owen Heinecke, a former walk-on and lacrosse player, has become one of the Sooners' major defensive contributors.

The Oklahoma Sooners are trying to finish the 2025 college football season with a championship run that begins with a first-round playoff matchup with the Alabama Crimson Tide on Dec. 19 in Norman. After a 10-2 season, the Sooners found out during the SEC schedule reveal when they'll play their 2026 opponents.

Fresh off an undefeated season in 1954, Bud Wilkinson tried to lower expectations for the Sooners entering 1955.

Cathedral four-star wide receiver Quentin Hale has emerged as one of the top pass-catchers in the 2027 Recruiting Cycle with programs from coast-to-coast involved in his process. Hale, a Top-10 wideout in America,