Count Brett McMurphy of the Action Network among those who don’t think Oklahoma football will be much better in 2023 than it was in Brent Venables first season as OU head coach.
That is certainly not a ringing endorsement for a team that finished with a losing season in 2022, something akin to blasphemy in Sooner football history. We’ve seen cases made both pro and con regarding what kind of football team will emerge in Norman in Year 2 of the Venables era.
The net-net is that no one is really sure of what to expect from OU in the coming season, although offseason reports and highly touted talent additions on the recruiting and transfer trails, particularly on defensive side, suggest that the Sooners should win eight or nine and even 10 games in 2023.