OU ranked 16th in first AP Poll of 2024 season
The first AP Poll of the 2024 season has been released and OU came in at No. 16. Oklahoma also ranked 16th in the Coaches Poll.
The Sooners are one of nine SEC programs to be ranked in the top 25. Oklahoma is set to face six of those teams. Last season, OU ranked 20th in the initial AP Poll and finished the season 15th.
This year, OU will have its work cut out, having one of the most difficult schedules in college football. Oklahoma will kickoff the season at home on Friday, Aug. 30 against Temple.
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“You look at the league and the parity, the length, the size, the physicality, the depth of that, the amazing venues that you’re going to be able to play in and compete in week-in and week-out,” coach Brent Venables said at SEC Media Days. “And that’ challenge is exciting and something that we’re really looking forward to, and all the great coaches. You look at the great coaches in this league and only one of them, though, has ever won an SEC championship as the head coach in this league, which is really, when you peel that back, it’s like, ‘Wow, really.’ But all really, really highly successful and skilled coaches and rosters top to bottom.
“We understand the competitive depth top to bottom is very real. We’re gonna find out where we match up. That’s what the games are for. You figure all that out on the field. And what happens is, through both success and adversity and some failure, you’re gonna figure out what you do and don’t have and what you need. This is a league where the competitive depth in the trenches is probably unlike, again, top to bottom, there are other teams across the country that have competitive depth that would match up to the SEC.”
Here is the full AP top 25.
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Oregon
- Texas
- Alabama
- Ole Miss
- Notre Dame
- Penn State
- Michigan
- Florida State
- Missouri
- Utah
- LSU
- Clemson
- Tennessee
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Kansas State
- Miami
- Texas A&M
- Arizona
- Kansas
- USC
- N.C. State
- Iowa
