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Sooners · SEC

Head coach Brent Venables Year 5 with Oklahoma

Season Projection · 2026 W0

10,000 sims
7.6
Expected wins
8-4
Proj record
4 to 11
Win range (90%)
#17 (7–35)
Final rank (90%)
28%
Make playoff
6%
Win conference

Path to Glory

Tap a win or a loss on each pivotal game to see how the playoff probability shifts. Leave any game unset to average across both outcomes.

Make the playoff

28%

Baseline projection.

  • at Missouri
    Away · Nov 28
  • vs Texas A&M
    Home · Nov 21
  • at Georgia
    Away · Sep 26
  • vs Ole Miss
    Home · Nov 14
  • at Florida
    Away · Nov 7

Pivotal games are the 5 with the largest playoff-probability swing, ranked by the model. Math: chained Bayesian log-odds update from the conditional simulation set; gets the directionally right answer but won't perfectly capture cross-game correlations until the full Monte Carlo pipeline lands.

Returning production · 2026

71 score
  • Quarterback 94% (3/4 )
  • Offensive line 56% (10/18 players)
  • Skill (RB/WR/TE) 55% (15/33 )
  • Front 7 (DL/LB) 54% (20/30 )
  • Secondary 71% (12/19 )
  • Special teams 100% (7/8 )

Share of last season's production each unit returns. Higher means more continuity: 70%+ is healthy, 45–70% a normal rebuild, under 45% a major turnover.

Portal additions · 2026

+0.8 rating

16 proven transfers in, carrying the production below from their prior school.

  • Trell Harris WR ← Virginia 155 impact
  • Rocky Beers TE ← Colorado State 152 impact
  • Cole Sullivan LB ← Michigan 107 impact
  • Hayden Hansen TE ← Florida 100 impact
  • Lloyd Avant RB ← Colorado State 95 impact
  • Parker Livingstone WR ← Texas 95 impact

Impact scores offensive skill additions (QB/RB/WR/TE) — prior-season production normalized within position (100 ≈ a 90th-percentile producer at that spot) and discounted for non-FBS competition, so a top back counts alongside a top quarterback. Defensive and O-line additions count as transfers but aren't box-score measurable, so they carry no impact score. The rating figure is this class's portal contribution vs. the FBS average, capped at ±2.5.

If QB1 is out (John Mateer)

GIE projects a 7.1 rating drop and a 28.5pp shift in playoff probability if Oklahoma loses its QB1 for an extended stretch. (n=1 historical samples; pooled across recent seasons.)

Situational efficiency · 2025

FBS percentile rank
  • 3rd-down conversion 38.7% 63th — average
  • Red-zone TD rate 17.6% 76th — strong
  • 4th-down aggression 34.4% 40th — below avg
  • Late & close 6.1 yds/play 76th — strong

Percentile is across all FBS teams with play-by-play data for the season. "Late & close" is yards per play in Q4+ with a one-score margin — a proxy for clutch offensive performance.

Schedule

Full 2026 slate. Tap a row for the matchup breakdown.

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Per-team pages get the full treatment in Phase 3: current rating, season projection histogram, schedule with win probabilities, and live overlays on Pylon stream days. For now, this page exists so stories and news have a permanent home as content rolls in.