2021 Oklahoma Sooners football team

The 2021 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma during the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 127th season for the Oklahoma Sooners. They played their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They are a charter member of the Big 12 Conference. The team was led during the regular season by Lincoln Riley, in his fifth and final year as head coach.

Riley departed Oklahoma for USC on November 28. Former Sooners head coach Bob Stoops was named the interim head coach and led the team to their win in the Alamo Bowl.

Transfers
Outgoing

The Oklahoma Sooners lost seventeen players via transfer portal for the 2021 season.

Incoming

The Oklahoma Sooners add nine players via transfer portal from the 2020 season.

Returning starters
Offense

Defense

Special teams

† Indicates player was a starter in 2020 but missed all of 2021 due to injury.

NFL Combine
The official list of participants for the 2021 NFL Combine included Oklahoma football players: -

Award watch lists
Listed in the order that they were released

Preseason awards
2021 Preseason All-Big 12


 * Offensive player of the year: Spencer Rattler, QB, Oklahoma
 * Newcomer of the Year: Eric Gray, RB, Oklahoma

Regular season
The 2021 schedule consisted of 7 home games, 4 away games and 1 neutral-site game in the regular season. The Sooners hosted 2 non-conference games against Western Carolina and Nebraska and was originally scheduled to travel to Tulane, but the effects of Hurricane Ida forced the game to be played in Oklahoma with Tulane still being the home team. Oklahoma hosted Iowa State, TCU, Texas Tech, and West Virginia, and travelled to Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State in regular-season conference play. Oklahoma played Texas in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in the Red River Showdown, the 116th game played in the series.

Coaching staff

 * Graduate assistants


 * Analysts