Oklahoma Sooners’ 2026 season is over: OU needs to start experimenting with new things to prepare for the future
The Oklahoma Sooners’ season is over. They won’t make the College Football Playoff. So, that always poses new questions. Will you try to change some things up? Will there be changes to your team? What will be the team’s direction for the rest of the season? “Yeah, I’m not going to talk about that tonight,” […]
The Oklahoma Sooners’ season is over. They won’t make the College Football Playoff. So, that always poses new questions. Will you try to change some things up? Will there be changes to your team? What will be the team’s direction for the rest of the season?
“Yeah, I’m not going to talk about that tonight,” head coach Brent Venables said when asked about the coordinator and quarterback changes fans have been begging for.
And with that, I say they make some changes. In fact, start experimenting with new things. Start preparing for 2027 and the future if you’re the Sooners. This loss to South Carolina changed the entire rest of the 2026 season.
The Sooners need to move away from everything wrong with this team, and start looking to 2027
John Mateer is clearly not your guy. Mateer is also not the QB of the future. This is his last year because he has no more eligibility, and even if he somehow got more, I’m not sure he would be welcomed back after two very underwhelming years and so much money spent on him.
So, why not give Bowe Bentley a chance? And you don’t have to start him; he’s a true freshman. But why not give gim the fourth quarter of next game, or even the second half? If you’re going to keep Arbuckle and the players he’s helped recruit in this elite class coming up, at least let the true first-year students who are part of the future start developing.
Bentley needs to get some reps over the next few weeks, and by reps I mean live game. If it were up to me, I’d give him the entire second half of the next game vs. Florida. Then let him start vs. Ole Miss, or come in late against both of those great defenses. Then, against Texas A&M, give him his first start.
Do the same with all the first-year students who have shown elite potential. Ease them into live-game reps that develop them way better than practice does. When you do that, you give the fans something to cheer about. And you’re not doing that at all right now.
