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OU picked to finish 8th in SEC, Stutsman and Bowman make first team

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OU has a lot to prove in its first SEC season.

The Sooners were picked to finish eighth in the media preseason poll. Meanwhile, Texas was picked to finish second behind only Georgia. Here’s how the preseason poll shook out for the 2024 season.

  1. Georgia
  2. Texas
  3. Alabama
  4. Ole Miss
  5. LSU
  6. Missouri
  7. Tennessee
  8. Oklahoma
  9. Texas A&M
  10. Auburn
  11. Kentucky
  12. Florida
  13. South Carolina
  14. Arkansas
  15. Mississippi State
  16. Vanderbilt

OU was represented on the All-SEC preseason team, with linebacker Danny Stutsman and safety Billy Bowman both being selected on the first team. Purdue transfer wide receiver Deion Burks made the third team. Texas had 13 players make the All-SEC preseason teams.

It’s no secret Oklahoma is not garnering much respect from the media. With a new quarterback and a rebuilt offensive line, many are skeptical of the Sooners. But OU does return nearly its entire defense and offensive playmakers.

“You look at the league and you know the parity,” coach Brent Venables said at SEC Media Days. “The length, the size, the physicality, the depth of that, the amazing venues that you’re going to be able to play in and compete in week-in and week-out, and that’ challenge is exciting and something that we’re really looking forward to, and all the great coaches. You look at the great coaches in this league and only one of them, though, has ever won an SEC championship as the head coach in this league, which is really, when you peel that back, it’s like, ‘Wow, really.’ But all really, really highly successful and skilled coaches and rosters top to bottom.”

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