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Future Schedules

DISCLAIMER: All future schedules are unofficial until announced by the University of Oklahoma and therefore are subject to change. This information is gathered from conference, university, or local/national news media sources. The accuracy and availability of this information is dependent solely on those sources. I will make every effort to note when a game or series is not official -- short of publishing an unconfirmed rumor -- and, if possible, provide a link or reproduction of the source of that information (older links may not work).

Recent Updates

7/29/24 SoonerScoop.com has confirmed that OU will host Utah State in 2027.

6/28/24 FBSchedules.com reports that OU will host Colorado State in 2028.

4/9/24 OU announced that the 2024 season opener against Temple has been moved from Saturday (8/31) to Friday night (8/30) at 6 PM and will be televised on ESPN.

3/20/24 OU announced their 2025 opponents.

12/13/23 OU announced their full 2024 schedule.


2025

8/30 Illinois State
9/6 Michigan
9/13 at Temple
10/4 Kent State
vs Texas
Auburn
LSU
Mississippi
Missouri
at Alabama
at South Carolina
at Tennessee
All SEC dates TBD

2026

9/5 UTEP
9/12 at Michigan
9/19 New Mexico

2027

9/4 Utah State
9/11 at SMU
9/18 San Diego State

2028

9/2 Temple
9/16 at Houston
9/30 Colorado State

2029

9/1 at San Diego State
9/15 Nebraska

2030

8/31 Tulsa
9/14 at Nebraska

2031

9/6 San Diego State

2032

TBA

2033

9/3 Tulsa

2034

TBA

2035

9/15 at Clemson

2036

9/13 Clemson

(1) Date and/or site reported by a media organization or other website, but has not been officially announced by either university

Older Updates

8/11/23 OU announced the addition of the final two opponents for 2024: Houston and Maine (never played). Houston will be a home-and-home series. The Maine game date will be announced after the 2024 SEC game dates are set.

6/14/23 OU/the SEC announced the opponents and locations for the 2024 season (dates TBA).

2/9/23 The Big 12 announced an agreement for OU and Texas to withdraw from the conference after the 2023-24 athletic year.

1/31/23 The Big 12 announced the 2023 league schedule.

10/20/22 OU announced a three-game series with San Diego State with games in 2027, 2029, and 2031.

9/14/22 OU announced adjustments to future schedules including replacing Georgia (2023, 2031) with a home-and-home series against SMU in 2023 and 2027. They are working to find a replacement for the Tennessee (2020, 2024) series. Alabama (2032, 2033) and LSU (2027, 2028) series that have also been canceled.

9/14/22 The SEC announced that they have "...directed the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee to postpone scheduled football games versus Oklahoma because the transition of Oklahoma into the SEC will not allow for the involved institutions to fulfill their respective contractual non-conference home-and-home appearance obligations."

12/1/21 OU announced the 2022 schedule.

8/30/21 OU announced that the Tulane game will move from New Orleans to Norman due to Hurricane Ida.

7/30/21 OU officially announced their intent to join the SEC in 2025. The SEC then accepted the application for membership.

5/27/21 Athletic Director Joe Castiglione released a statement stating OU's disappointment in Fox scheduling the 2021 Nebraska game at 11 AM.

3/12/21 Brett McMurphy reported that Nebraska was trying to get out of the 2021 game. OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione responded that he expects the game to be played. After much online ridicule, Nebraska released a statement later that day recommitting to the game, after trying to replace it with another home game for financial reasons.

2/12/21 FBSchedules.com reports that OU will host Kent State in 2022. The game also appears on OU's website.

12/30/20 AStateNation reports that OU will play Arkansas State in Norman on September 2, 2023. This also appears on FBSchedules.com which had originally reported that OU would play Illinois State on that date.

12/10/20 The West Virginia game has been canceled due to COVID-19 issues.

11/25/20 The West Virginia game was postponed and rescheduled for December 12 due to COVID-19 issues.

9/11/20 During an interview on The Sports Animal, OU AD Joe Castiglione said that they intend to reschedule the Army game (at West Point) that was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

9/1/20 2020 schedule as of September 1:

9/12 Missouri State
9/26 Kansas State
10/3 at Iowa State
10/10 vs Texas
10/24 at TCU
10/31 at Texas Tech
11/7 Kansas
11/21 OSU
11/28 at West Virginia
12/5 Baylor

8/12/20 OU announced their revised 2020 schedule.

8/8/20 OU announced that the Missouri State game will not be on August 29, but sometime in September.

8/3/20 The Big 12 announced that the league will play nine conference games and one non-conference home game for the 2020 season starting in mid- to late-September (which would move the Missouri State game again). That takes the September 26 game against Army off the schedule.

7/30/20 The SEC announced that their teams will only play conference games for the 2020 season. That takes the September 12 game against Tennessee off the schedule.

7/25/20 OU announced the move of the 2020 Missouri State game from September 5 to August 29.

7/1/20 2020 schedule as of July 1:

9/5 Missouri State
9/12 Tennessee
9/26 at Army (2)
10/3 Baylor
10/10 vs Texas
10/17 at Iowa State
10/24 OSU
10/31 at TCU
11/7 at West Virginia
11/14 Kansas State
11/21 Kansas
11/28 at Texas Tech

12/11/19 FBSchedules.com reports that OU will host New Mexico in 2026.

11/8/19 OU announced a three-game series with Tulsa in 2023, 2030, and 2033.

10/28/19 FBSchedules.com reports that OU will host Illinois State in 2023.

9/17/19 FBSchedules.com reports that OU will host UTEP in 2026.

5/6/19 OU announced a home-and-home series with Georgia in 2023 and 2031.

4/9/19 OU announced a home-and-home series with Alabama in 2032 and 2033.

4/2/19 The Athletic is reporting that Georgia is "deep in talks" with OU for a future home-and-home series. This could fill the non-conference marquee matchup missing from both of their schedules in 2023 (Georgia only has Georgia Tech as of now), with the return game in the 2030s (2031?) given their future opponents.

3/27/19 OU announced a home-and-home series with Clemson in 2035 and 2036.

12/16/18 The Tulsa World/Eric Bailey report that OU is planning a 2-for-1 series against Tulsa.

4/3/17 OU announced a home-and-home series with Tennessee in 2020 and 2024. They also added one game against South Dakota in 2019.

9/16/16 While speaking with John Hoover, Joe Castiglione confirmed that: 1) the LSU series will take place in 2027-28 (no dates were given), 2) a couple of other series against unnamed opponents are being worked on, and 3) a new series with Tulsa is being discussed.

7/8/16 The Tulsa World reports that a neutral-site game vs Arkansas in 2020 is not currently being discussed.

7/6/16 OU announced a three-game series with Temple in 2024, 2025 and 2028.

5/16/16 The Tulsa World reports that a game in Houston vs Arkansas in 2020 was discussed in June of 2014. Also, in February of 2015 several teams were being considered for a home game on September 7, 2019. Those teams were Arkansas State, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Georgia Southern, Idaho, Kent State, Louisiana Lafayette, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Massachusetts, New Mexico State, South Alabama, Temple, Texas State, Toledo, Western Kentucky and Wyoming. Temple was also mentioned for a 2017 home game.

1/20/16 OU announced a second home-and-home series with Nebraska in 2029 and 2030.

5/21/15 OU announced a three-game series with Tulane in 2017, 2021 and 2024.

9/9/14 FBSchedules.com reports that OU and LSU have rescheduled their series for 2027-28.

7/14/14 OU announced a home-and-home series with Michigan.

5/8/14 OU announced a home-and-home series with UTEP.

11/6/13 OU announced changes to the 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019 schedules. OU and LSU are looking to reschedule their home-and-home series that was set for 2018-19.

11/29/12 The games against Nebraska in 2021-22 are official.

11/7/11 UCFSports.com reports that a home-and-home series starting in 2012 is in the works. However, on 11/8, Travis Haney reported on Twitter that... "I'm also told news of UCF home-and-home is premature. It's one of several options for OU, but not close to being done yet." ... "Source did say OU has spoken with UCF. But home-home certainly not done, or even all that close."

11/7/11 Kirk Bohls reports that future games between OU and Texas A&M might be possible.

10/22/11 Conference realignment creating scheduling headaches for OU football.

10/10/11 According to Kirk Bohls' column, OU and Arkansas are discussing a series.

8/4/09 OU announced a series with Army for 2018 and 2020.

6/8/08 According to the Tulsa World, the team that backed out of a 2008 game with OU was Middle Tennessee.