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2018 Oklahoma Sooners Countdown to Kickoff | 21 Days!

Exactly three weeks from today, the Oklahoma Sooners will kick off the 2018 college football season! For today’s installment in our Countdown to Kickoff series, I want to take a look back on a linebacker who enjoyed punishing the opposition almost as much as he loved tea time. I’m talking about MIKE linebacker Tom Wort.

Tom Wort’s journey to Norman began across the pond. The middle linebacker grew up in Crawley, a borough in West Sussex, England. He didn’t move to the states until he was 14, where he soon picked up the sport of American football.