2024 Oklahoma Sooners football team

The 2024 Oklahoma Sooners football team will represent the University of Oklahoma in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 130th season for the Oklahoma Sooners. They will be led by third-year head coach Brent Venables and will play their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. This will be their first year as members of the SEC.

Outgoing transfers
Quarterback Dillon Gabriel transferred to Oregon after two seasons with the Sooners. Coming over from UCF, Gabriel ranked sixth among all FBS quarterbacks this season in passing yards with 3,660, while also ranking eighth in passing touchdowns with 30 and was tenth in completion percentage in his second season with the Sooners.

Incoming transfers
Purdue transfer Deion Burks committed to the Sooners after a breakout season, finishing with 629 receiving yards, 47 catches, and 7 touchdown catches and later being named second-team All-Big Ten honors. Casey Thompson committed to the Sooners from Florida Atlantic after previous stints with Nebraska and Texas. Thompson, the son of former Sooners quarterback Charles Thompson, returned to the state of Oklahoma, where he will play his seventh season. He joins Paul Moriarty and Brenen Thompson as the third player in modern history to start out at Texas and transferred to Oklahoma.

Preseason SEC awards
2024 Preseason All-SEC teams

Media First Team

Media Third Team

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Coaches First Team

Coaches Second Team

Coaches Third Team

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SEC media poll
The 2024 SEC Media days will be held on July 15–18, 2024 at Omni Hotel Dallas in downtown Dallas, Texas. The preseason polls will be released in July 2024. Each team will have their head coach available to talk to the media at the event. OU representatives will be available on July 16, 2024. Head coach Brent Venables and players that will be named later will represent the Sooners. Coverage of the event will be televised on SEC Network and ESPN.

Schedule
Oklahoma and the SEC announced the 2024 conference schedule on December 13, 2023. The 2024 schedule consists of 7 home games, 4 away games and 1 neutral-site game in the regular season. The Sooners will host all 4 non-conference games against Temple, Houston, Tulane, and Maine.

The Sooners will host three SEC conference opponents against Tennessee, South Carolina, and Alabama and will travel to four SEC conference opponents against Auburn, Ole Miss, Missouri, and LSU. The Sooners will face Texas in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl in the Red River Rivalry. The Sooners will have their bye week in Week 6 (October 5) and Week 12 (November 16).

Coaching staff
Source: 2024 Oklahoma Sooners Roster

Offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby was named the next head coach at Mississippi State after two years with the Sooners. With Lebby, the Sooners scored 65+ points three times with a 43.2 points scoring average. Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Ted Roof mutually agreed to part ways after two years with the Sooners. Head coach Brent Venables offered Roof an opportunity to remain on the staff in a different role, however Roof declined. With Roof, the Sooners improved from 98th in scoring defense and 121st in total defense last season to being ranked 46th and 78th respectively this season.