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How the Oklahoma Sooners are ready to step foot into the SEC and compete · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  You said there we got a couple of teams at nine and three, But
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  I want to ask specifically about one real quick. Oklahoma. The Models got
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  the Sooners going nine and three in their debut SEC season. Kind of a
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  two parter here, Jake, How difficult is it to project Texas and Oklahoma
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  given that they're playing in a new conference, obviously with a much more difficult
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  slate. And how big of a surprise do you think it would be around
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  the country if Texas comes into this league goes undefeated and Oklahoma comes into this
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  league and wins nine games right off the bat. How surprised do you think
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  that would be the rest of the country that Texas and Oklahoma would be arguably
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  two of the better teams in the entire SEC right off the bat. I
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  think, Nashally, that would be a heck of a story. You know
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  a lot of people and this is just just me still view the SEC.
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  Now, there's a couple of things here. One, we know the SEC
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  does have the most talent of the country. If you don't believe it,
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  just watch the NFL Draft coming up here in April, and we'll see every
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  year SEC leads to charge. But the SEC around the country still has a
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  stigma that, hey, this is top to bottom a defensive first league,
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  when in reality, you know, the league has kind of fallen off.
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  I mean, if you look at some of these numbers last year, you
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  know, Vanderbilt one hundred and one, a defensive scoring efficiency, Arkansas forty
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  forty one, South Carolina fifty five, Florida eighty six. I mean,
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  you go down the list here, Ole miss at thirty two. I mean,
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  there's a lot of teams that have fallen off defensively. So when you
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  look at Texas, to me, I don't think Texas would be as big
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  a surprise because they played for the played in College Football Playoff. This year,
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  they had the seventeenth best offense and the eighth best defense nationally. Steve
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  Starcasian has really done a great job with this staff, Tea and this Texas
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  Longhorned team up. I think to compete week in and week out. Oklahoma,
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  though, you know last year they were ninth in the country and offensive
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  scoring efficiency and eleventh defensive scoring efficiency in the Big Twelve. But there's a
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  lot that they've had to replace. They've had to find a new quarterback.
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  Dling Gabriels off to Oregon. They've lost a lot of offensive offensive linemen that
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  they have recruited well and done a decent job on the transfer portal. And
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  you know, when you look at Oklahoma as far as their schedule is concerned,
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  you know, Temple, Houston and Tulane in the non conference their first
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  SEC game. Obviously Tennessee will will come calling. Then at Auburn. I
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  think that's a game that they can go get. That will probably be a
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  full quarter type ballgame. Texas neutral site game after a bi week South Carolina
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  at Ole Miss, another non conference game against Maine, they play Missouri,
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  Alabama and at LSU. So you know, you look at Vegas right now
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  with Oklahoma, they have their win total at eight. I have them a
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  game over at nine. I wouldn't be surprised if they go eight and four,
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  you know, seven and five. But I have them, you know,
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  win in a couple of one possession games that I think they can get.
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  So, you know, again, I look at these numbers and then
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  I say, what does Vegas say? Vegas has them at eight. I
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  have them at nine.