With preseason practices opening up for the Oklahoma Sooners over the weekend, head coach Lincoln Riley is going to have problems convincing anyone that his quarterbacks are engaging in an actual competition for the starting job. If graduate transfer Jalen Hurts isn’t taking the first snaps against the Houston Cougars over Labor Day weekend, it would surpass Trevor Knight’s victory in OU’s 2013 QB derby on the upset scale.
Nevertheless, OU’s head coach is insisting on portraying the next four weeks as a duel between Hurts, redshirt freshman Tanner Mordecai and true frosh Spencer Rattler.