Oklahoma’s spring game on Saturday offers us a brief glimpse at the formation of this year’s Oklahoma Sooners football team. The game has no shortage of things to be looking out for and some aren’t even about the players and the actual football we’ll see being played.
With such a momentous occasion for the university and its storied football program, we’ve compiled a list of five things we’re most looking forward to in the spring game. Check them out below.
The atmosphere of actual football
While we know it’s not an official game, the energy and excitement with being able to see Oklahoma play football is exciting.
They ended last season on a high note in the Alamo Bowl after the surprising departure of Lincoln Riley. Riley’s departure less than 24 hours after the disappointing loss to Oklahoma State led to several recruits decommitting and finding new homes elsewhere.
The Sooners went looking for answers and a replacement.
That help came from a familiar yet distant friend when former Oklahoma defensive coordinator Brent Venables returned as the head coach. He left Clemson after two national titles and several more College Football Playoff appearances as one of the best defensive coordinators in college football.
Venables has worked tirelessly to reshape and renovate the Oklahoma Football program and the Oklahoma Spring game provides him a perfect opportunity to show what the coaching staff and the players have been working on this spring.
With everything that’s gone on since Bedlam, turning the page on a new era of Sooners football is going to make for a rocking atmosphere in Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
Seeing the new look Oklahoma offense
When Lincoln Riley headed to Southern California, he took his offensive system and the Sooners’ starting quarterback for the last half of the year with him. That left the Sooners without a head coach, offensive coordinator, and a quarterback.
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