The Oklahoma Sooners are 3-0 on the 2024 season, reaching that benchmark with nonconference wins at home over Temple, Houston and Tulane. Now, OU turns its attention to conference play, beginning with the Tennessee Volunteers coming into Norman on Saturday night.
The college football season is still fairly young, and nearly everything is still to be decided. Oklahoma is a perfect example of that. It hasn’t played a team with as much talent yet, but the strong majority of its final nine regular-season games will provide that situation. A stout defense has buoyed a struggling offense so far, and OU’s tuneup opportunities have run out. The Vols are knocking on the door.
Though the Sooners are unbeaten, they haven’t exactly been impressive in their wins. That has led to their weekly bowl projections being lower than OU fans would like, aided in part by the brutal conference in which the Sooners now reside.
CBS Sports college football writer Jerry Palm updated his bowl season predictions after Week 3, and he thinks that Oklahoma could run into a familiar face this winter.
Palm has Oklahoma slated to take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders in the TaxAct Texas Bowl on the afternoon of Dec. 31. The game is played in Houston, Texas, at NRG Stadium and pits the SEC against the Big 12.
Of course, the Sooners and Red Raiders were conference foes from 1996 to 2023. Oklahoma holds a 23-7 record all time against Texas Tech, playing in a couple of memorable games over the years.
In 2008, the Red Raiders came into Norman undefeated and ranked second in the country, enjoying the best season in program history. But it was the fifth-ranked Sooners who stole the show in front of a national TV audience, dominating from start to finish on their way to a 65-21 victory. Bob Stoops gained the better of former pupil Mike Leach, and OU went on to win the Big 12 and play for a national title.
In 2016, perhaps the greatest shootout in the sport’s history took place on an October night in…
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