The NCAA rules are the NCAA rules. Well, maybe.
Oklahoma hasn’t been able to use starting running back Rhamondre Stevenson, wide receiver Trejan Bridges or star defensive end Ronnie Perkins stemming from a suspension at the end of the 2019 season. The three missed the Sooners’ biggest game of the year in the College Football Playoff.
Stevenson, Bridges and Perkins failed a drug test for marijuana at the end of last season and prior to the LSU game. Per the NCAA rules, anyone who fails a drug test for substance in the cannabinoid class is subject to being withheld from 50 percent of the season in which the sport is played.
The three suspended players have missed six games already, which would have been the end of the suspensions. That may or may not be the case.
“I don’t have one,” Riley said about an update on the suspended players on Monday’s Big 12 teleconference. This process is not as clear-cut as you guys think it is or as I thought it was going to be. So, I’m not trying to play games. I’m not trying to do any of that. I do not know what their status is right now. It has not been decided.”
Perkins received a special NCAA appeal two weeks ago and traveled to Ames, Iowa, and was on the sidelines. He has not traveled and been on the sidelines the last two weeks.
Oklahoma will take on Texas Tech Saturday at 7 p.m. CT.
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