You can count on First Take for the hard-hitting questions.
Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley went on the show with Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman Monday morning and was asked many of questions.
Smith’s first question the Sooners head ball coach came on the possibility of a college football season. Riley didn’t shy away from his feelings on that.
Lincoln Riley was asked on @FirstTake Monday morning if he believes there will be college football this season.
"I think it's impossible to predict when we'll have a season, but I am extremely confident that we will have a season at some point."#OUDNA | #BoomerSooner pic.twitter.com/afX0ccGB1I
— Sooner Gridiron (@soonergridiron) April 6, 2020
“I think it’s impossible to predict when we’ll have a season, but I’m extremely confident that we will have a season at some point,” Oklahoma’s head coach said. “It may look different. The schedule may look different. Fans in the stands may look different. Starting times may be different—we don’t know and we have to be ready to adjust.
“Football is important. It’s important to this country. I think it’s important to just the morale of the country overall, but it’s obviously not the most important thing. I do feel like we live in a great country. I think we’ll find a way to band together to beat this and I do feel like we’ll be playing football here very shortly.”
College football’s spring has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. No practices, no workouts, no in-person recruiting—all of it.
Oklahoma had multiple position battles to start to wade through, including a quarterback competition between Spencer Rattler and Tanner Mordecai. The Sooners are poised to win their sixth-straight Big 12 Championship behind an explosive offense and a reliable defense.
Oklahoma’s 2020 season is currently scheduled to begin on Sept. 5 against Missouri State.
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