OU ranked No. 16 in preseason coaches poll
The first coaches poll of the 2024 season is here and OU came in at No. 16.
The Sooners are one of eight SEC teams ranked in the top 25. Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss, Missouri, LSU and Tennessee are all ranked ahead of Oklahoma. OU will have to face six top 15 teams this season based on this poll, including three in the top six.
“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.”
The AP will reveal is preseason rankings at 11 a.m. on Monday, August 12. Here is the full 2024 preseason coaches poll.
Preseason Top 25 (Coaches Poll)
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Oregon
- Texas
- Alabama
- Ole Miss
- Notre Dame
- Michigan
- Penn State
- Florida State
- Missouri
- LSU
- Utah
- Clemson
- Tennessee
- Oklahoma
- Kansas State
- Oklahoma State
- Miami
- Texas A&M
- Arizona
- NC State
- USC
- Kansas
- Iowa
