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2024 Oklahoma Sooners College Football Betting

The Oklahoma Sooners are one of the most storied programs in college football history. Oklahoma brings seven national championships and 50 league titles to the SEC. As good as the Sooners' tradition and reputation is, the man-eating SEC will put all of that to the maximum test. Oklahoma’s brand, like Notre Dame, Nebraska, USC, and others is built upon a glorious past. But that past is fading in the rear-view mirror, at least by national championship standards.

A deeper dive reveals that since Hall of Fame legend Barry Switzer led OU to the 1974 and 1975 national championships, OU has only two nattys (1985 and 2000). Admittedly, it has done much better in conference play, where the Sooners have claimed 14 Big 12 championships since 2000. However, while the Big 12 was often underrated, it was never at the level of the SEC.

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Switzer used to say that coaching at Oklahoma was like feeding a beast. Oklahoma had better be a beast starting immediately. That is because the SEC has been the best league in college football for two decades. No other league can match the SEC for dedication to cause, recruiting, financing, fan passion and prospect footprint.

Head coach Brent Venables arrived at Oklahoma on December 5, 2021, after Lincoln Riley bolted for USC in the middle of the night, taking key star players and coaches with him to La-La Land. Thus, Venables inherited a firestorm and a demoralized fan base. After winning his first three games, the roof caved in with a final record of 6-7 for 2022.

There was an improvement in 2023. Oklahoma started 7-0 but faded down the stretch to finish 10-3. Losses to Kansas, Oklahoma State, and in the Alamo Bowl to Arizona stunned Sooner fans, who believe OU should never lose to. The Sooners once owned the Big 12, but they slumped in their closing three seasons, failing to even make the championship game at a time when the league has been down. Stunningly, OU hasn’t produced a first-team All-American since 2019. That hardly represents positive momentum for a shift into the SEC - the country’s dominant conference. However, coach Brent Venables' squad has a reason for optimism in '24. The defense is trending up after showing solid improvement last fall.

Also, quarterback Jackson Arnold is a rising star. The former 5-star recruit takes over for Dillon Gabriel, who left for Oregon through the transfer portal and stands firmly in charge, taking a role he didn’t always thrive in a year ago when Gabriel was injured or already out the door ahead of the bowl game.

The Sooners look to rally around a fully prepped Arnold with a new offensive coordinator in Seth Littrell, along with more newness as only four players who started as many as six games return on offense.

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Oklahoma has one of the great traditions in the sport as traditional blue blood power. The Sooners have seven claimed national championships and 11 unclaimed nattys. They have won a whopping 50 conference titles.

Oklahoma holds the all-time record of 47 consecutive wins under the late great Bud Wilkinson. That is a streak that has never been seriously threatened. Just as impressive is that from 1946 to 1959, the Sooners went undefeated in conference games. Wilkinson won three national titles and 14 Big Eight championships in his College Football Hall of Fame career.

Barry Switzer was another coaching legend at Oklahoma. Like Wilkinson, Switzer won three national championships and 12 Big Eight titles. He is a College Football Hall of Famer, too.

Bob Stoops won one national championship and ten Big 12 titles as OU head coach. Like Wilkinson and Switzer, he is in the College Football Hall of Fame.

With all its success, it's no surprise that Oklahoma has boasted some of the greatest players in college football history. Namely, Steve Owens, Greg Pruitt, Billy Sims, Josh Heupel, Jason White, Adrian Peterson, Sam Bradford, Baker Mayfield, and Kyler Murray are OU legends.

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