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Oklahoma Sooners

SEC·1-1·
Elo
1799#16
SP+
21.7#10
FPI
19.2
AP
#11
Nextvs New Mexico · Wk 3Win prob 90%Model -19.5
Talent #17 (851.1)Recruiting class #1563% production returning

Roster · 111 players

FR 39SO 28JR 23SR 21
#PlayerPosClHtWt
8Bowe BentleyQBFR6'1"208
10John MateerQBSR6'1"224
15Jett NiuQBFR6'2"205
16Whitt NewbauerQBSO6'6"237
6Tory BlaylockRBSO5'11"212
9Lloyd AvantRBJR5'10"212
20Jonathan Hatton Jr.RBFR6'1"235
21Xavier RobinsonRBJR6'0"235
23Ben McCrearyRBSR5'9"215
25Andy BassRBSO5'11"210
28DeZephen WalkerRBFR5'10"215
29Gabe SawchukRBSO5'10"202
0Manny ChoiceWRSO6'4"210
1Isaiah Sategna IIIWRSR5'10"185
2Jahsiear RogersWRFR5'11"182
3Parker LivingstoneWRSO6'3"200
4Daniel OdomWRFR6'2"195
5Jer'Michael CarterWRSR6'2"212
7Jacob JordanWRJR5'9"185
11Trell HarrisWRSR6'0"200
13Jayden PetitWRFR6'4"218
14Elijah ThomasWRSO6'1"200
17Mackenzie AlleyneWRSO5'11"184
80Eli MerckWRJR5'11"203
82Ivan CarreonWRJR6'6"238
84Xavier OkwufuluezeWRFR6'5"217
85Trey BrownWRJR5'9"178
12Ryder MixTEFR6'3"238
18Tyler RuxerTEFR6'4"235
19Kade McIntyreTEJR6'3"225
22Trynae WashingtonTEFR6'3"265
44John Locke Jr.TESR6'4"250
81Rocky BeersTESR6'5"240
87CJ NicksonTEFR6'4"272
88Jack Van DorselaerTESO6'4"250
89Hayden HansenTESR6'8"270
52Noah BestOLFR6'4"318
55Eddy Pierre-LouisOLSO6'3"319
56Michael FasusiOLSO6'5"320
57Gunnar AllenOLSR6'1"295
60Caleb NittaOLJR6'2"305
61Kenneth WermyOLJR6'4"312
64Sean HuttonOLFR6'0"305
65Ace HodgesOLSO6'1"305
68Owen HollenbeckOLFR6'3"340
69Jake MaikkulaOLSR6'6"305
70Ryan FodjeOLSO6'5"327
71Peyton JosephOLSO6'4"330
72Fred HintonOLJR6'4"315
73Deacon SchmittOLFR6'5"315
74Darius AfalavaOLFR6'4"365
75Daniel AkinkunmiOLSO6'6"325
76E'Marion HarrisOLSR6'6"318
77Heath OzaetaOLJR6'5"315
0David StoneDLJR6'3"312
6Nigel Smith IIDLSO6'4"295
8Bishop ThomasDLSR6'1"300
16Danny OkoyeDLSO6'3"260
19Brian HarrisDLFR6'3"280
34Adepoju AdebaworeDLSR6'4"265
40Matthew NelsonDLFR6'5"247
42Wyatt GilmoreDLSO6'4"258
44Taylor WeinDLJR6'4"270
55Danny SailiDLSR6'3"325
58James CarringtonDLFR6'2"290
65Jayden JacksonDLJR6'2"310
80Bergin KysarDLSO6'3"255
90Trent WilsonDLFR6'3"305
92Jacob HenryDLSO6'0"280
94Kenny OzowaluDLSO6'3"283
95Daniel NormanDLFR6'3"250
97Alex ShieldnightDLFR6'2"255
98Jake KreulDLFR6'3"240
7Taylor HeimLBJR6'5"225
10Kip LewisLBSR6'1"226
11Kristan MooreLBFR6'1"229
15Beau JandreauLBFR6'0"210
17Jacob CurryLBFR6'0"214
18Cole SullivanLBJR6'4"230
26Elgee WebsterLBFR5'11"215
28Marcus JamesLBFR6'3"225
30Dane BathurstLBFR6'4"233
38Owen HeineckeLBSR6'1"226
41Barrett TravisLBFR6'0"215
47James NestaLBSO6'3"233
2Omarion RobinsonDBSO5'11"210
3Reggie Powers IIIDBJR6'0"212
4Courtland GuilloryDBSO6'0"188
5Markel FordDBFR6'1"205
9Dakoda FieldsDBSO6'1"205
12Derrick Johnson IIDBFR6'0"185
13Niko JandreauDBFR6'0"195
14Trystan HaynesDBFR6'2"185
20Casen CalmusDBJR5'10"205
21Jeremiah NewcombeDBSO5'9"198
22Peyton BowenDBSR6'0"200
23Eli BowenDBJR5'9"185
24Jacobe JohnsonDBSR6'2"210
25Michael BoganowskiDBJR6'2"212
27Preston MickensDBSO5'10"195
31Reed DeQuasieDBJR6'1"205
33Lebron BauerDBFR6'0"188
37Prince IjiomaDBJR6'2"199
27Trace RuddPKFR5'11"195
29Tate SandellPKSR5'9"178
33Preston TarpleyPKFR6'0"199
35Liam EvansPKSO5'7"177
43Grayson MillerPKSR5'9"193
87Jacob UlrichPJR6'5"208
50Ben AndersonLSSR6'5"249
54Seth FreemanLSFR6'0"238

Team Statistics · per game, with national FBS rank

Points / game
30.5
scoring offense
Points allowed
8.5
scoring defense
Differential
+22.0
per game
Offense
Total yards / game
345.0#104
Yards / play
5.8#82
Passing yards / game
210.0#86
Rushing yards / game
135.0#88
First downs / game
17.5#108
3rd down %
37.5%#94
4th down %
0.0%#108
Time of possession
28:38#96
Defense
Yards allowed / game
230.5#36
Yards / play allowed
4.0#39
Pass yards allowed / game
98.5#8
Rush yards allowed / game
132.0#85
3rd down % allowed
23.1%#21
Sacks
6#12
Tackles for loss
16#9
Turnovers & Discipline
Turnover margin
-1#89
Takeaways
2#53
Giveaways
3#95
Penalties / game
6.0#52
Penalty yards / game
53.0#70

Rank is national among all FBS teams (#1 = best), oriented so higher rank = better even for defensive and discipline metrics. Bars show percentile.

Scouting Report · 2026 projection

balanced

Oklahoma is in year 5 under Brent Venables, whose offenses have been balanced. The strengths are defensive, led by 1st at stuffing runs at the line. The way in is 107th at staying out of the backfield.

On fourth down he goes for it about as often as his peers do from the same spots (+0.3%). Against what the expected-points model recommends he is −27.7% — the profession as a whole is negative on this.

Oklahoma has played 1 game against an average slate, adjusted for here. That football carries about 0% of what is below; the rest is still the preseason projection.

Projected strengths

  • Defensegetting stopped at the line
    #1
    projected
  • Defensefirst and second down
    #2
    projected
  • Defensesacks and tackles for loss
    #2
    projected

Projected soft spots

  • Offensegetting stopped at the line
    #107
    projected

Each bar is where this team sits in the country. Before the season has produced enough football these are PROJECTIONS — last season regressed to the mean, plus talent, returning production, recruiting and whether the staff is the same one — and the season replaces them as it is played. Head coaches only — there is no free feed for coordinators, so on a program where the head coach does not call the offense this describes the staff he hired. Play-calling identity is a style, not a grade: throwing more than the situations warrant is not better than throwing less than they warrant.

2026 Season Projection

model win prob · 10 to play
6.95.1
projected final record (now 11)
Exp. wins left
5.9
of 10 games
Bowl odds
84%
reach 6 wins
Best odds
90%
vs Kentucky
Toughest
31%
vs Georgia

How the season could finish · 2026 · chance of each final win total · 10 games left

Every remaining game simulated from the model's win probability for it. Tallest bar is the single likeliest finish, not a prediction that it happens.

1234567891011
final winstallest bar = 28% chance
Likeliest finish 7-5 (28%)Bowl eligible 84% · marked on the axis at 6

Player Value

EPA contribution by position group + estimated NIL market value (derived from position rates and on-field production — not actual deal figures).

Unit Value — Total EPA
QBJohn Mateer
+18.6 EPA
TEHayden Hansen, Rocky Beers
+10.5 EPA
WRTrell Harris, Parker Livingstone +3
+6.1 EPA
RBLloyd Avant, Xavier Robinson +2
-1.3 EPA

Total EPA produced by each positional group this season. OL value is captured via the rush/pass efficiency of skill players; OL-specific EPA isn't separately reported.

Estimated NIL Market Value
ESTIMATED
QBJohn Mateer
~$815K
EPA +18.60.295/play63 snaps
RBLloyd Avant
~$194K
EPA +4.00.182/play22 snaps

Estimated from position-group market rates and on-field EPA contribution. Actual NIL valuations depend on social media following, brand fit, and market negotiations — these figures are directional only.

The Five Factors

ranked vs. FBS · bar = better
Efficiency (PPA)
Off0.1739th#85
Def-0.1084th#23
Explosiveness
Off1.1936th#88
Def1.2850th#69
Field position
Off69.444th#78
Def72.849th#71
Finishing (pts/opp)
Off4.2755th#62
Def1.4290th#15
Turnovers
Won 2Lost 3
Margin -1

Opponent-adjusted efficiency

EPA/play vs. schedule
Offense
Defense
Off · pass
0.3553rd#65
Off · rush
0.0125th#104

Pass vs. rush (PPA)

Rushing
Off0.0125th#104
Def0.0150th#69
Passing
Off0.3553rd#65
Def-0.0285th#21

Trenches & disruption

Line yards (off)
3.17#58
2nd-level / open-field
1.22 / 0.67
Power / stuff (off)
33.3% / 23.9%
Havoc — total (def)
23.9%#20
Havoc — front 7 / DB
17.1% / 6.8%

Standard vs. passing downs

Pro
Std downs
Off0.15
Def-0.17
Pass downs
Off0.24
Def0.07

PPA on each down type (off vs. def).

Opponent-adjusted by down

Pro
1st2nd3rd
Offense0.06#720.26#620.37#98
Defense-0.36#110.22#930.03#20

Elo Trajectory

UTEPFinal
Elo rating 17061787+81 over season

Team Fingerprint · 2026 · 43 opponent-adjusted metrics · percentile vs 138 FBS teams

Plot these →
worst in FBSbest

Efficiency

  • Offense EPA/play0.3971st
  • Defense EPA/play allowed-0.2594th
  • Offense success rate55%78th
  • Defense success rate allowed34%59th

Downs

  • Offense success — standard downs57%76th
  • Offense success — passing downs46%80th
  • Defense success allowed — standard downs40%59th
  • Defense success allowed — passing downs18%80th

Explosiveness

  • Offense explosiveness1.245th
  • Defense explosiveness allowed0.9488th
  • Offense explosiveness — standard downs1.158th
  • Offense explosiveness — passing downs1.836th

Trenches

  • Offense line yards2.937th
  • Defense line yards allowed1.689th
  • Offense highlight yards0.8245th
  • Defense highlight yards allowed1.618th
  • Offense power success0.5725th
  • Defense power success allowed0.0099th
  • Offense stuff rate0.2418th
  • Defense stuff rate0.2982nd

Third down

  • Third down conversion55%74th
  • Third down distance faced4.098th
  • Third down conversion allowed17%89th
  • Third down distance forced7.558th

Halves

  • Net success rate — first half0.1763rd
  • Net success rate — second half0.2072nd

Drives

  • Points per drive4.082nd
  • Points per drive allowed-0.6499th
  • Average starting field position4399th
  • Opponent starting field position3225th
  • Available yards gained66%80th
  • Available yards allowed20%95th
  • Scoring opportunities per drive91%75th
  • Scoring opportunities allowed45%97th
  • Points per scoring opportunity4.485th
  • Points allowed per opportunity0.0099th
  • Three-and-out rate18%73rd
  • Three-and-outs forced36%76th

Roster

  • Returning usage75%89th
  • Returning EPA18171st
  • Team talent composite85188th
  • Recruiting class rank15.090th
  • Recruiting class points25390th

Every metric is opponent-adjusted and ranked so that higher is always better — a defensive rate that is good when low is ranked accordingly. Sack and tackle-for-loss composition are deliberately absent: their relationship to team quality is a measured null, so they carry a style rather than a rank, and they appear in the pressure signature instead.

Intelligence Report

Offensive DNA

Pass-dominant offense — below average EPA/play nationally
EPA/play
+0.175#85 · average
Pass EPA/play
+0.345#65
Rush EPA/play
+0.013#104
Explosiveness
1.191#88
Pts/opportunity
4.27#62
Success rate
42.3%

Pass efficiency edge: 0.332 EPA/play

🛡

Defensive Identity

High-pressure defense suppressing opponents below the national average
EPA/play allowed
-0.099#23 · top 20%
Havoc rate (total)
23.9%#20
Front-7 havoc
17.1%
DB havoc
6.8%
Big play rate allowed
1.277#69
Success rate allowed
31.6%

Disruption comes primarily from the front seven.

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Season Signature

30.5 PPG offense, 8.5 allowed — +22.0 margin/game
Points per game
30.5
Points allowed/game
8.5
Scoring margin/game
+22.0
Turnover margin
-1won 2 · lost 3
Production returning
63%
Talent rank (247)
#17

1-1 record through 2 games.

Team Shape · percentile vs. FBS · dashed = 50th

OFFENSE39thEXPLOSIVENESS36thFINISHING55thFIELD POS44thDEFENSE84thHAVOC86th50th100th
Offense
39th
Explosiveness
36th
Finishing
55th
Field Pos
44th
Defense
84th
Havoc
86th

Each axis = national percentile rank. 100th = best in FBS, 0th = worst. Defense and Havoc are oriented so higher = better.

CORE efficiency · situation and opponent removed

Points per 100 plays above average, after the game state is regressed out of every snap and the schedule is solved out across the whole league. The version of this team’s efficiency that can be compared to a team it never played.

Overall
+16.4
#21
Offense
+6.4
#31
Defense
-10.0
#14
Full CORE ratings →

What a possession is worth · 11 drives

MeasureOffenseDefense
Points per drive4.00-0.64
Starting field positionown 42.6own 31.5
Available yards66.1%20.1%
Scoring opportunities90.9%45.5%
Points per opportunity4.400.00
Three-and-out rate18.2%36.4%
Every team’s drive efficiency →

Play-calling identity

Against what the league calls from the same down, distance, field position, score and clock — so this is the staff, not the game script.

Pass rate
40.6%
Expected, given the spots
45.0%
Over expected
-4.4
Fourth down vs peers
-20
Fourth down vs the model
-100
All play-calling tendencies →

National Landscape · 2026 FBS · offense vs. defense EPA/play

Each dot = one FBS team. Oklahoma is highlighted. Tap or hover a dot for details.

ELITEDEF. FORTRESSOFF. POWERHOUSEREBUILDING-0.100.00+0.10+0.20+0.30-0.050.00+0.10+0.20Offensive EPA/play← worsebetter →Defensive EPA allowed/play← worsebetter →

Similar Programs

Teams with the closest offense + defense efficiency profile to Oklahoma in 2026

by EPA/play distance
ArkansasSP+ +3.3
Off EPA/play +0.176Def EPA/play -0.075Elo 1547
Match
99%
TulsaSP+ -2.3
Off EPA/play +0.186Def EPA/play -0.071Elo 1268
Match
98%
SyracuseSP+ +2.7
Off EPA/play +0.213Def EPA/play -0.087Elo 1288
Match
98%
Texas A&MSP+ +23.9
Off EPA/play +0.224Def EPA/play -0.097Elo 1849
Match
98%
BuffaloSP+ -11.6
Off EPA/play +0.152Def EPA/play -0.050Elo 1365
Match
97%
UCFSP+ +5.9
Off EPA/play +0.104Def EPA/play -0.106Elo 1465
Match
97%

Similarity = normalized Euclidean distance on season offensive and defensive EPA/play. Teams within ±0.02 EPA/play on both units score >90%.

Program Trajectory · CORE rating · 20152026 · points per game vs an average FBS team

2015: +26.2, #3 of 1282016: +24.2, #9 of 1282017: +36.4, #3 of 1302018: +27.6, #4 of 1302019: +27.0, #6 of 1302020: +24.9, #4 of 1242021: +14.0, #22 of 1302022: +10.3, #29 of 1312023: +28.0, #6 of 1332024: +9.3, #37 of 1342025: +17.8, #21 of 1362026: +16.4, #21 of 138
20152026
Now +16.4 · #21 of 138Best +36.4 in 2017Worst +9.3 in 2024

Program History

recent seasons
YearOverallConfWin %xWLuck
20261-00-0
100%
1.0+0.0
202510-36-2
77%
8.7+1.3
20246-72-6
46%
5.0+1.0
202310-37-2
77%
10.9-0.9
20226-73-6
46%
7.3-1.3
202111-27-2
85%
8.4+2.6
20209-27-2
82%
9.0-0.0
201912-29-1
86%
11.5+0.5
201812-29-1
86%
11.5+0.5
201712-29-1
86%
12.4-0.4

xW = expected wins from per-game dominance. Luck = actual − expected (positive = won close games).

31%of 50,000 simulated 2026 seasons end with them in the field

1-0 so far, projected to finish 7.7-4.4. Top-four bye in 11%. Wins the SEC in 5.6%.

If they finish with…

100%
0 losses
100%
1 loss
100%
2 losses
67%
3 losses
2.8%
4 losses

Their chance of making it at each final loss count. Better than even up to 3.

Win out and it is 100%. Running the table settles it.

up 5.7 points since preseasonwon 51-0 over UTEP against an expected margin of +41, so +10.5 against the number.

  • At 3 losses they are 67% where the average SEC team is 41%.
  • The SEC takes 3.83 bids in an average season, and four or more in 65%.

Oklahoma’s own turning points

Points of playoff probability between winning and losing.

  • wk6vs Texas36.7
  • wk4at Georgia36.3
  • wk12vs Texas A&M33.4
  • wk10at Florida33.3
  • wk2at Michigan30.4
  • wk11vs Ole Miss30.3

Who to root for

Games Oklahoma is not in that move its odds most. Same units, much smaller scale.

  • wk13Georgia Tech over Georgia2.5
  • wk4USC over Oregon2.4
  • wk7Auburn over Georgia2.4
  • wk3Arkansas over Georgia2.4
  • wk12Arkansas over Texas2.1
  • wk10South Carolina over Texas A&M2.0
The full playoff picture →

SEC

0-0 in league play, projected 5.1-3.96 of 16 by title odds
5.6%
Wins the SEC
12%
Reaches the title game

The SEC sends its top two by conference winning percentage, head-to-head breaking a tie. The last berth is level on percentage in 48% of simulated seasons, so a tiebreaker decides it about that often.

  • wk4Oklahoma at Georgia12.0
  • wk6Texas at Oklahoma11.5
  • wk10Oklahoma at Florida8.4
  • wk12Texas A&M at Oklahoma8.0

Points of title probability riding on each result. The whole SEC race →

If not the playoff, then

84%
Bowl eligible
54%
Placed in a bowl
31%
In the playoff
15%
Season over in November

Oklahoma is 1-0 and needs 5 more wins from 11 games to reach the six that make a team eligible — at most one of which may come against an FCS opponent. In 1.3% they go with five wins, as a 5-7 fill-in — which in reality is decided by academic progress rate, not by anything modelled here.

  • ReliaQuest Bowl8.3%
  • Citrus Bowl8.2%
  • Gator Bowl8.0%
  • Duke's Mayo Bowl7.4%
  • Music City Bowl6.9%
  • Texas Bowl5.9%

Every bowl, and how each one picks →

Recruiting Pipelines

since 2010

Of the 170 high-school programs with a pipeline page here, 14 have sent Oklahoma a player since 2010 — 38 signees between them. Where they signed, not where they were offered, and not a complete list of Oklahoma's feeder schools: only these 170 have the outcome history to measure.

High schoolSignedDrafted
IMG AcademyFL70
AllenTX51
SkylineTX51
KatyTX41
LancasterTX30
Frisco Lone StarTX21
GonzagaDC21
AtascocitaTX20
All 170 high-school pipelines →
✓/✗ = whether our pregame model picked the winner. Win % & projections from the Gridpex model. Data: CollegeFootballData.