2018 OU Football Schedule Released

The full 2018 OU Football schedule was released Thursday morning.

Schedule

Saturday, Sep 1Florida Atlantic – Norman, Oklahoma

Saturday, Sep 8UCLA – Norman, Oklahoma

Saturday, Sep 15Iowa State – Ames, Iowa

Saturday, Sep 22Army – Norman, Oklahoma

Saturday, Sep 29Baylor – Norman, Oklahoma

Saturday, Oct 6Texas – Dallas, Texas

Saturday, Oct 20TCU – Fort Worth, Texas

Saturday, Oct 27Kansas State – Norman, Oklahoma

Saturday, Nov 3Texas Tech – Lubbock, Texas

Saturday, Nov 10Oklahoma State – Norman, Oklahoma

Saturday, Nov 17Kansas – Norman, Oklahoma

Friday, Nov 23West Virginia – Morgantown, West Virgina

Quick Thoughts

– September: 5 games (don’t see that often)

– October: 3 games (don’t see that often)

– November: 4 games (there we go)

– 3 home non-conference games, 4 home conference games. Another rarity to have 7 home games in a season.

– The Sooners only have four true road games on the schedule, another unusual part of the schedule.

– OU doesn’t generally end up having conference play start before all non-conference games are completed. That won’t be the case in 2018, as Iowa State is sandwiched in between UCLA and Army.

– The bye week falls after Texas and before TCU, which may not be a bad time for it for the Sooners.

– Another earlier Bedlam than has become tradition in the recent past.

– The obvious thing that stands out here is the Black Friday matchup with West Virginia. OU doesn’t play on Fridays often; the last regular season game played on a Friday was at Tulsa in 2007 (the last weekday was at Iowa State in 2016).

What are your thoughts?