SEC Announces Oklahoma's 2025 Conference Football Schedule

Originally posted on Oklahoma Sooners on SI
By John Hoover | Last updated Dec 11, 2024 7:47 PM ET

Oklahoma’s schedule doesn’t get any easier in 2025.

The Southeastern Conference released its 2025 conference schedule on Wednesday night, and an OU slate that was one of the toughest in the country this fall only gets harder.

OU’s final seven games next year are against teams that are playing in bowl games this season — six of whom beat the Sooners in 2024.

The non-conference schedule opens Aug. 30 versus Illinois State, then ramps up with 2023 national champion Michigan coming to Norman on Sept. 6. The Sooners then head to Philadelphia to visit Temple on Sept. 20.

After opening SEC play on Sept. 20 at home against Auburn — one of two teams the Sooners beat in 2024 — they’ll have an open date, followed by their final non-conference game against Kent State.

After that, it’s a heavyweight brawl every week for Brent Venables’ fourth team.

The Sooners play Texas in the annual Red River Rivalry on Dallas on Oct. 11, then hit the road to face upstart South Carolina in Columbia on Oct. 18. OU then finishes out October by hosting Ole Miss.

November is a gauntlet for the Sooners: Nov. 1 at Tennessee, followed by a second open date, then a closing stretch similar to this year featuring a road trip to Alabama and home games with Missouri and LSU at Owen Field.

In its first year as an SEC member, Oklahoma was just 2-6 in conference play this season — the program’s worst winning percentage in league play (.250) since going 1-4 (.200) in 1931.

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