Oklahoma Sooners release 2023 football schedule

Oklahoma released its schedule for the 2023 college football season Tuesday afternoon as they head into season two of the Brent Venables era.

A humbling six-wins in 2022 saw the Sooners lose seven games in a single season for the first time since 1997. The Sooners’ season ended with a heartbreaking 35-32 Cheez-It Bowl loss to Florida State. That obviously isn’t good enough. Oklahoma has a standard and it has made them a Big 12 powerhouse for the better part of two decades, and it wasn’t on display this past season.

They expect themselves to get back into the mix in 2023, especially with the SEC move alongside Texas on the horizon. A poor performance in the Big 12 would be a disaster in the SEC — and the Sooners can’t afford another losing season.

Still, OU will want to make the most of its time left in the Big 12. A founding member of the conference in 1996 alongside seven other current members, the Sooners will want nothing less than one more conference championship before the split for the SEC. Can they do it in 2023? We’ll just have to wait and find out.

The Sooners will kick off its season against Arkansas State and SMU at home but will take a rare non-conference true road trip during Week 3 to battle Tulsa on their home turf. They’ll round their season out the week before the conference championship game against TCU — a game that could serve as a proverbial passing of the torch from an outgoing Big 12 stalwart to the new shiny toy in the conference.

Check out Oklahoma’s full schedule below:

• Week 1 — Sept. 2 vs. Arkansas State
• Week 2 — Sept. 9 vs. SMU
• Week 3 — Sept. 16 @ Tulsa
• Week 4 — Sept. 23 @ Cincinnati
• Week 5 — Sept. 30 vs. Iowa State
• Week 6 — Oct. 7 vs. Texas (Dallas)
• Week 7 — Oct. 14 BYE
• Week 8 — Oct. 21 vs. UCF
• Week 9 — Oct. 28 @ Kansas
• Week 10 — Nov. 4 @ Oklahoma State
• Week 11 — Nov. 11 vs. West Virginia
• Week 12 — Nov. 18 @ BYU
• Week 13 — Nov. 24 vs. TCU