Crimson Countdown: No. 48 Luke Elzinga
The Crimson Countdown is officially on for the 2024 Oklahoma football season. Fans have been waiting for what feels like forever with this one. The Sooners are finally and officially joining the SEC.
The 2023 season was a rebound one for head coach Brent Venables, getting the program back to its standard. OU went 10-3 in Venables’ second season, now it’s time for year No. 3.
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Crimson Countdown: No. 48 Luke Elzinga
2023 stats: Played in 11 games handling the punting duties for the entirety of the second half of the season, averaging 45.1 yards per punt with a long of 58 and 13 punts downed inside the 20-yard line
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2024 outlook: It was a quiet emergence, but Oklahoma found its punter in Luke Elzinga on the backend of the 2023 season. Elzinga’s 45.1 yards per punt average would have finished in the top 20 of the NCAA a season ago. Mostly overlooked and often forgotten, the punting situation is in relatively good hands for first-year special teams coach Doug Deakin.
2024 special teams outlook
Special teams figures to be one of the more varied possible outcomes on the roster. Oklahoma returns starters at punter, kicker, and long snapper. But after a mixed bag of results in 2023, the Sooners are now with a new position coach in Doug Deakin from San Diego State. Punter Luke Elzinga seems a safe bet as does long snapper Ben Anderson but the battle at kicker between incumbent Schmit and Tyler Keltner could be pivotal to the team’s success in what figures to be a season of tight games.
