Fall camp is underway for the Oklahoma Sooners, which means we’re less than a month away from the start of the 2024 college football season. Talking season is just about over as OU and the rest of college football will begin to prove their worth on the field.
After spending much of the last few months speaking highly of the Oklahoma Sooners, On3’s J.D. PicKell broke down the Oklahoma Sooners’ schedule and predicted each game.
PicKell predicts the Oklahoma Sooners will go 6-6 in 2024, including a 2-6 record in their inaugural season in the SEC.
The On3 college football analyst has the Sooners starting the season 3-0 with wins over Temple, Houston, and Tulane before following that up with a three-game losing streak to Tennessee, Auburn, and Texas.
According to PicKell, Oklahoma beats South Carolina, loses to Ole Miss, beats Missouri and Maine before dropping their final two games of the season to Alabama and LSU.
Despite the difficulty of the schedule, a 6-6 season would be viewed as a disastrous opening to Oklahoma’s tenure in the SEC. It also feels really unlikely.
On paper, Oklahoma is better than Tennessee and Auburn. In 2023, the Texas was considered the better team, but that didn’t matter in the Red River Rivalry game. Games against Ole Miss, Alabama, and LSU will prove difficult, but the finale against the Tigers has more to do with the atmosphere than the overall quality of an LSU team that lost a Heisman winning quarterback, a pair of first round wide receivers, and need to drastically improve on defense.
Bama will be tough, but will they be the same Crimson Tide team we saw dominate college football for much of the last 15 years? Coming to Norman will be no cake walk.
It’s easy to sit and predict a disastrous season for the Oklahoma Sooners. And 6-6 would be bad. but the floor for this team looks more like 8-4 than it does 6-6.
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