The Oklahoma Sooners have won the Big 12 the last two seasons. Here is the 2017 football schedule they will have to navigate to make it three in a row.
The Oklahoma Sooners have won the Big 12 in back-to-back seasons in 2015 and 2016. Oklahoma’s last loss in Big 12 play came in the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas to the rival Texas Longhorns in 2015.
However, for as good as Oklahoma has been the last two years, the Sooners don’t have a national championship to show for it. Oklahoma does return star quarterback Baker Mayfield for his redshirt senior season in Norman in 2017. Here is the 2017 football schedule Oklahoma has to wrangle to play for a National Championship.
- September 2nd: UTEP Miners
- September 9th: at Ohio State Buckeyes
- September 16th: Tulane Green Wave
- September 23rd: at Baylor Bears
- September 30th: OFF
- October 7th: Iowa State Cyclones
- October 14th: Texas Longhorns (Cotton Bowl, Dallas)
- October 21st: at Kansas State Wildcats
- October 28th: Texas Tech Red Raiders
- November 4th: at Oklahoma State Cowboys
- November 11th: TCU Horned Frogs
- November 18th: at Kansas Jayhawks
- November 25th: West Virginia Mountaineers
- December 2nd: Big 12 Championship Game (AT&T Stadium, Arlington)
Oklahoma has to go to Columbus to play the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Horseshoe on September 9th. That seems like a ton of fun for the Sooners. Maybe 2017 will be better than 2016 was against the Buckeyes?
After the second half of a home-and-home slate with Ohio State, Oklahoma has a very navigable schedule to get to a Big 12 Championship Game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. The Sooners’ toughest road game of 2017 is probably in Stillwater on November 4th against in-state rival Oklahoma State. It’s interesting that Bedlam has been moved up earlier in November this season.
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Ending the year with West Virginia could prove troublesome, but the Sooners get the Mountaineers in Norman this season. Overall, Oklahoma can be as good as it wants to be in 2017. If the Sooners win in Columbus, they can go 12-0 en route to the Big 12 Championship. That’s Oklahoma’s high ceiling for 2017. The Sooners’ floor looks to be no worse that 9-3 (7-2). 10-2 (8-1) seems like a reasonable 2017 outcome for Oklahoma football.