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Oklahoma Sooners football coach Brent Venables’ team suffered the worst loss of the season, a 34-26 home disappointment against the Ole Miss Rebels, and it may get worse before it gets any better.
As The Washington Post’s Patrick Stevens notes, road trips to Rocky Top to take on the Tennessee Volunteers and Tuscaloosa to battle the Alabama Crimson Tide loom for OU soon. It doesn’t get any easier after that, with home matchups with the Missouri Tigers and LSU Tigers to close out the 2025 slate.
“The Sooners’ 34-26 loss to Mississippi at home is probably worse than the final margin suggests,” Stevens wrote.
“For one, it’s the second loss in three weeks for Oklahoma (6-2, 2-2 SEC), which is not what Coach Brent Venables’s team needed with trips to Tennessee and Alabama up next (and games against Missouri and LSU to close the regular season).
“That’s bad enough on its own. If a 5-0 start turns into a 7-5 or 6-6 finish, well, that’s not going to go over well with fans accustomed to cranking out 10-win seasons.”
The days of dominating the Big 12 are long gone. OU was a six-win team in its initial SEC campaign and hadn’t made the Big 12 Championship Game since 2020. Venables could prove to be in over his head over the last four games.
Losing all of them likely knocks him out of Norman. Losing three forces a conversation. Eight wins is a likely success in year two in the SEC for Oklahoma, though, with Venables’ 2026 season under the microscope.
We’ll see if the Sooners can survive a tough stretch to close out their schedule.
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