Divisional
- Arkansas Razorbacks
- Louisiana State Tigers
- Mississippi State
- Missouri Tigers
- Ole Miss Rebels
- Texas A&M Aggies
- Texas Longhorns
Cross-divisional
In the cross-divisional matchups, the Sooners would play four teams from the SEC East.
- Alabama Crimson Tide
- Florida Gators
- Kentucky Wildcats
- Tennessee Volunteers
The following season, they’d play the other four.
- Auburn Tigers
- Georgia Bulldogs
- South Carolina Gamecocks
- Vanderbilt Commodores
Non-conference
- Oklahoma State Cowboys
Want to keep Bedlam around for the future? Schedule it as your lone non-conference game. Though the game has been a lopsided affair in its history, it’s still a game that means a lot to the state of Oklahoma.
To keep the non-conference game would ease some of the pain from the departure of OU to the SEC, though not likely all of it. Oklahoma State would be left behind in a Big 12 that wouldn’t look near as big.
That’s 12 games for the Oklahoma Sooners. 11 SEC games and an important non-conference game. A schedule like this certainly raises the stakes for Oklahoma and the conference as a whole. Minimizing FCS scheduling and limiting non-conference to big-time games makes every single week on the schedule matter and puts the SEC as a brand on televisions with key matchups every single week.
And I don’t know about you, but that’s really fun schedule that the Oklahoma Sooners would be playing if they land in the SEC and the conference followed this alignment.