OU in the SEC preview: An old 'rivalry' renewed at Mizzou
The initial OU season in the Southeastern Conference is here. Are the Sooners ready for the SEC? Is the SEC ready for OU?
Football is just around the corner, and it’s time to see what head coach Brent Venables can do in year No. 3 in Norman.
But who are the opponents? SoonerScoop caught up with a beat writer at each of the eight SEC opponents for the 2024 season.
The series continues with Eli Hoff from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
OU at Missouri – Nov. 9
The overall win-loss series doesn’t say rivalry between OU and Missouri. But recent recruiting battles, transfer portal battles say this will feel a little extra in November at Mizzou.
Missouri is coming off a huge season, culminating in a win in the Cotton Bowl. Expectations might be as high as they’ve been since Chase Daniel years.
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With guys like Cayden Green and Williams Nwaneri and Adepoju Adebawore and Theo Wease and JJ Hester expected to be involved, the atmosphere will not be lacking. Wease was just named one of the Mizzou captains last week.
Head coach Eli Drinkwitz at SEC media days
“Number one core value for us is always compete to do it better than it’s ever been done before. So our mentality every single week is to always compete, and it really is not about anybody else except our own internal drive and expectations to be the very best that we can be. And so we don’t rely on exterior noise and exterior factors to provide our motivation. We’re motivated every day with, again, always compete mindset, developing an elite edge, which is energy, details, grit and emotional consistency with how we train, how we prepare each day in order for us to play our best game on Saturday.
“And, you know, we have a group of experienced players. I think one of the things that helped us last year was the number of players that we had on our team with career starts. And this year we really have the same. We have 22 players on our roster that have 12 or more starts in their collegiate career. So we have the expertise. We have those let-down games in our past that really help us realize that, hey, you can’t take a Tuesday practice off… And in this league if you don’t, you’re going to get embarrassed in a hurry.”
