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The 2021 Oklahoma Sooners football team represents the University of Oklahoma during the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Sooners play their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They are a charter member of the Big 12 Conference.

Previous season
The Sooners finished the 2020 season 9-2, 6-2 in Big 12 play. Despite beginning the season 1-2, 0-2 in Big 12 play, they came back and finished the season in 2nd place in the Big 12 behind Iowa State, who they defeated in the 2020 Big 12 Championship Game 27-21 for their sixth consecutive Big 12 Championship. For the first time since 2016, the Sooners were not selected for the College Football Playoff. Instead, the sixth-ranked Sooners were selected to face the seventh-ranked SEC East Champion Florida Gators in the Cotton Bowl, where they defeated the Gators 55-20. They finished the season ranked 6th in the AP and Coaches Poll.

Transfers
Outgoing

Incoming

NFL Combine
The official list of participants for the 2020 NFL Combine included Oklahoma football players : -

Award watch lists
Listed in the order that they were released

Regular season
The 2021 schedule consists of 6 home games, 5 away games and 1 neutral-site game in the regular season. The Sooners will host 2 non-conference games against Western Carolina and Nebraska and will travel to Tulane. Oklahoma will host Iowa State, TCU, Texas Tech, and West Virginia, and travel to Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State in regular-season conference play. Oklahoma will play Texas in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in the Red River Showdown, the 116th game played in the series.