Sooner State of Mind

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! Well, I wouldn't say they are rising. They might be sinking. So much expectation going into the game last week against Texas. Only to have our offense put up three stinking points. This team can't run or pass and points are very hard to come by when you can't do either. The sky is not falling but, we need to find answers to some tou...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! The Sooners are back from their bye week. In hindsight, it seems like a great week not to have played football, as there were upsets galore. Will that trend continue this week? Let's hope so because it is officially time to get the hate flowing. That's right, it is the 120th Edition of the Red River Rivalry, but the first of the SEC...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! Oh, baby, the Sooners' first SEC Conference road game did not disappoint as Kip Lewis and Michael Hawkins Jr stirred up some Sooner Magic in the incredible 27-21 comeback win against Auburn! This game had a little good, bad, and definitely some ugly. But when the game was on the line, the Sooners showed up and showed out! It was jus...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! Optimism is in the air. At the beginning of the year, if you told me JFA would be benched in his fourth start, I would have said you were smoking something. Yet here we are as the times are changing. It's now freshman sensation Michael Hawkins Jr. taking over at quarterback looking to channel his best Jamelle Holieway. Can Hawkins c...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! Well, I wouldn't say stoke levels are rising after last night's game. The Sooners SEC home opener did not go according to plan. Josh Heupel and the Tennessee Vols came to Norman and beat our Sooners 25-15. It was not the result we were looking for, but now even more questions need to be answered. To put it mildly, Jackson Arnold str...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! It is finally here, the moment we've all been waiting for. It is history in the making. The Sooners will host their first-ever SEC conference game. On Saturday Night, the #15 Oklahoma Sooners are hosting the #6 Tennessee Volunteers. Both teams come into this game undefeated and are looking for that first conference win. The storylin...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! We've recovered from last week's drama and are moving on to greener pastures, or more like greener waves. The Sooners are set to host the Tulane Green Wave in their last game before Conference play. Tulane gave the Sooners all they could handle a few years ago, and now OU would like to return the favor. We will preview the big game...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising, just barely. Just like the OU win vs the Houston Cougars, just barely. The Sooners dominated in their first win as a member of the SEC. On Saturday Night it was anything but dominant. The Sooners needed some Sooner Magic, including a late safety by Gracen Halton to secure the 16-12 win over Willie Ftiz's Coogs. Even though the defen...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! The Sooners dominated in their first win as a member of the SEC. On Saturday, they look to improve to 2-0. The Sooners host a former conference foe the Houston Cougars. The Cougars did not play well last week and head coach Willie Fritz will have his Courgars focused on making sure that does not happen again this week. Last week's 5...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! The Sooners made their 2024 SEC debut under the Friday Night lights as they completely dominated the Temple Owls by a score of 51-3. We recap what went right, which was almost everything. We will also recap what did not go according to plan. Both of Jackson Arnold's new BFF's Deion Burks and Bauer Sharp lived up to their Spring Ball...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! We are back, baby! A week from tonight we will be watching our Oklahoma Sooners play football. The Sooners host the Temple Owls on Friday, August 30th. We will get you ready for OU's first game as members of the SEC. A bunch of players on that team continue to pop up on preseason award watch lists, we will tell you which players are...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! The dudes are padding up! Fall camp is in effect! This means football is back baby! With the first game just a few short weeks away, we're burning through some Olympic games to pass the time until August 30th. So until then, we'll let Brent Venables do the talking. He dropped some good stuff about the first week of practice. The pre...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising! The Sooners were well represented at SEC Media Day. Brent Venables was joined by Danny Stutsman, Billy Bowman, and Jackson Arnold. We will let you know what all the dudes had to say. Speaking of Danny and Billy, both those defensive studs found themselves on the First-Team Preseason All-SEC team. That was good, but where the Sooners...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, we are moving on up! July 1st, 2024 was the University of Okalhoma's first day in the SEC. The long-awaited move is finally official and Sooner Nation is completely stoked! Joe C flies off the top rope and gives us the best quote of the day. The Sooners end their era of total domination of the Big 12. I know there are a bunch of teams that were ready to see...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, we celebrate the unprecedented run of four straight National Championships for Patty Gasso and the Oklahoma Sooners softball team. Sweeping Texas on the way to another Natty for Patty makes it that much sweeter. We also inch closer to move-in day for the Sooners as their transition to the SEC is right around the corner. we also get our first look at the Col...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, we are that much closer to the official move to the SEC Conference, and Sooner Nation is buzzing. We get a little more information on how and where we will get to watch the College Football Playoffs. Coach Venables and Coach Bates snag a major defensive tackle via the portal with Damonic Williams.  The former Horned Frog is ready to dominate for the Sooners...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, we finally got to see a preview of our 2024 Oklahoma Sooners. The Spring Game is in the books and the early reports were as good as anticipated. Sooner Nation got to see Jackson "JFA" Arnold in his spring debut as QB 1, and it lived up to expectations. If the early returns on Deion Burks are anything close to what we saw in the Spring Game, we are...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind, stoke levels are rising as we are just over a week away from the OU Spring Game. Jackson Arnold has a year under his belt and now walks into the Spring Game as the dude for the Sooners. We also take a look at some of the players we are most stoked to see play. The Sooners continue to dominate on the recruiting trail. The OU commitments for 2025 just scored...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind it might almost be April, but the college football world is still going strong! Tons of news keeps pouring in. We are in the middle of Spring Ball and we are finally getting a look at some of our newest Sooners. Even better than that is getting a look at Jackson Arnold slinging the rock to all those Sooner weapons. OU is also looking like they will enter the...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind it's blowing our minds that one week of Spring Ball is already in the books. That also means we're that much closer to the Spring Game and that much closer to the regular season as well. We'll take a look at Spring Ball and check back in with OU's Pro Day as a handful of Sooners are looking to take their talents to the NFL. Speaking of NFL, the new league ye...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind we take a look at the addition of an Aztec and Blue Devil to the Sooners coaching staff while Brent Venables gets Todd Bates a big payday. The NFL Combine came and went, and even though a Horn stole the show, we'll tell you how our Sooners and some former Sooners of the quarterback variety performed. Speaking of the NFL, the free agency tampering window open...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind we take a look back at the legacy Patrick Mahomes is building as the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime to win Super Bowl LVIII. That makes it back to back Super Bowl wins for the Chiefs. We will check in to see how our Sooners performed in the big game. We also get to know Jolie Ale, who is expected to be the next director of...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind Sooner Nation mourns the loss of one of its biggest fans in country music superstar Toby Keith. We take a look back at some of Keith's music and his special bond with Oklahoma Sooner athletics. Then we take a look back at how our Sooners did in East West Shrine Bowl as well as the Reeses Senior Bowl. We will tell you who made money. Nick Saban is already out...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind college football loses another one of its best coaches. Jim Harbaugh finally makes the jump back to the NFL. Harbaugh leaves Michigan for the Los Angeles Chargers. Not only that, but he is taking Michigan's defensive coordinator Jesse Minter with him. We'll take a look at what the future looks like for Harbs in Lalaland. Luckily for the Wolverines, there was...

On this episode of Sooner State of Mind we finally get confirmation of the Zac Alley era in OU football. Zac Alley and Jay Valai will be the co-defensive coordinators for the Sooners in 2024. We will fill you in on just how Alley got to Norman. That is big news but not in comparison to the news of the college coaching GOAT of all time stepping away from the game. Nick Saban announced his retiremen...