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Oklahoma now knows its opponents for the 2025-26 season.
The Sooners will play Illinois State (Aug. 30), Michigan (Sept. 6), Kent State (Oct. 4), Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss and Missouri at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman. The road games? Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The Sooners' neutral-site game against Texas at the Cotton Bowl will count as a road game. While the dates and times for the conference games will be released at a later date, the Red River Rivalry will almost certainly be set on Oct. 11.
The 2025-26 schedule features the same conference opponents as what the Sooners will face in 2024, only with the locations flipped.
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That means the Sooners won't play other SEC teams like Georgia, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Florida, Vanderbilt and Mississippi State until their third season in the conference, at the earliest.
The news come as the SEC unveiled the conference schedules for each team at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Each SEC team will play eight conference games, continuing the eight-game model.
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The schedule will mark the first time Sooners have traveled to several of its new conference opponents. The Sooners last traveled to Tuscaloosa in 2002, when they defeated the Crimson Tide 21-14; The previous meeting at Tennessee resulted in a 31-24 overtime win by the Sooners, which included a 14-point fourth-quarter comeback. The Sooners have never played at South Carolina.
While the Sooners' home schedule will be the toughest slate its faced in recent memory — the Michigan matchup will be the prime non-conference game in all of college football — they do get seven home games compared to only four true road games.
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