OU Football’s 2014 Schedule Has Been Finalized

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When the 2014 Big 12 football schedules were initially announced back in November, Oklahoma was listed with two ‘or’ dates on their schedule. OU’s game at Iowa State was tentatively schedule for either Thursday, Oct. 30th OR Saturday, Nov. 1. Additionally, OU’s home contest against Oklahoma State was scheduled for either Saturday, Nov. 29 OR Saturday, Dec. 6.

However, credit to Allen Kenney of Blatant Homerism who recently noticed that those two ‘or’ dates were no longer listed on OU’s online schedule. Which led me to reach out to Oklahoma’s assistant athletic director, Pete Moris, to confirm whether or not the online schedule was accurate and the 2014 schedule had indeed been finalized. He was kind enough to confirm that the schedule listed online was accurate.

It’s important to keep in mind however that because of the Big 12 Conference’s television agreements, all schedules are subject to change in the future.

So if you were holding off making any plans because of the two previously scheduled tentative dates, it should be safe for you to go ahead and make those plans.

UPDATE: Not related to the 2014 schedule necessarily, but more spring football related. OU’s Kenny Mossman has also confirmed that the Red/White game will be broadcast on Fox Sports again, just as it was last year.

63 Comments

  • pitbull17 says:

    I’ve gotta figure out which game I’m going to. I didn’t get the chance to make it to one last year and it sucked. I’d really like to go to bedlam and watch the pukes get their teeth kicked in. That’s always fun.

  • SoonerfanTU says:

    Man, I would love to head down to Dallas for the TCU game, then stay down there all week until the RRR. That would be a fun week. Play some golf. Seem some friends. Hmmmm…..

  • j l says:

    Im going to try and go to the tennessee game, and since im so close to tulsa, ill go to that game as well. Tix should be cheap to the tulsa game.

  • Boomer4life says:

    The only thing I’m as super apprehensive about is or strength of schedule and the upcoming playoff system this year. We need a championship game to be considered legitimate in the coming years. Wish the TFB’S would do an open post on the playoff scenarios soon.

    • Sooner Ray says:

      I’m not 100% sure the conference championship game will play that much of a role right now. If you win the Big twelve, you have to be considered by the voters. With any loss, things will be tough getting in. I don’t know if it would matter if you won your conference with or without a championship game. A champion is a champion either way. What will hurt is the strength of the conference as a whole more than the teams strength of schedule. That’s just the way I see it right now, I very well could be completely wrong in my thinking.

      • Gary Robbins says:

        That’s what worries me the most is strength of schedule. Do you think the people would be influenced by records. Say for instance OU was 12-0, and 4 other teams were 13-0 and had just won their conference championship.

        • Sooner Ray says:

          I see what you’re saying but has there ever been 5 undefeated teams at the end of the season? Our out of conference schedule is usually decent, it’s helped us in the BCS formula more than once. All we can do for now is win, win, win, and hope the voters consider what we bring to the table nationally.

          • Boomer4life says:

            I don’t think anyone knows for sure where any of this is headed. We embark on the SS unknown for now.

          • Sooner Ray says:

            This new human element has everyone concerned. We could estimate where everyone might end up in the BCS formula, but now our fate is in the hands of people who may or may not watch many games and could be influenced by some external source. Unknown for sure.

          • Boomer4life says:

            We were winning championships before the BCS, we will win championships after the BCS as well. Just wish we all had a better understanding of it all.

          • Sooner Ray says:

            Right with ya Boomer4.

          • Gary Robbins says:

            You’re right. I usually look on the positive side. I mean we’re on a 4 game winning streak. We beat 2 very top named teams throughout college football away from our home field(Alabama and Notre Dame). Very few teams can say they beat the previous year’s National Championship Game teams in one year. Like you say just win ’em all. Another question do you think Bob Stoops has that mentality that “style points” might make a difference?

          • Sooner Ray says:

            He seems to have some swagger back, and I think he is like us, not sure how this system is going to play out so yeah I think he will try to grab the voters attention. I sure hope he does anyway.

          • Gary Robbins says:

            One more silly question and I’m off to the sack. Do you or other posters or TFB crew know what or how I could find out the people on this playoff committee for 2014? Thanks in advance.

          • Sooner Ray says:

            I’ve seen it but can’t give you names off the top of my head. Google it and I’m sure it will come up. It was announced months ago. They aren’t all football people, I remember that much.

          • Boomer4life says:

            Chair: Jeff Long
            Director of athletics at the University of Arkansas, Long was a two-sport athlete at Ohio Wesleyan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A 54-year-old native of Kettering, Ohio, Long has been athletics director at Pittsburgh and Eastern Kentucky and served in senior positions at Oklahoma, Virginia Tech and Michigan.
            PREVIOUSLY: Arkansas’ Long to chair committee

            Barry Alvarez 66,
            is a Pennsylvania native, Nebraska graduate and Wisconsin football coach-turned-athletics director. From 1990 to 2006 he led Wisconsin to 11 bowls (including three Rose Bowl victories) after the school had only reached six in its previous football history. He is Wisconsin’s all-time winningest coach.

            Lt. Gen. Michael Gould
            Gould is the recently retired Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy. He is a 1976 academy graduate and former Falcons football player as well as a command pilot with more than 3,100 flight hours. He is 60.

            Pat Haden
            Director of athletics at USC, Haden is a former Rhodes Scholar and quarterback for the Trojans and Los Angeles Rams. A California native, the 60-year-old Haden has been a partner in a private equity firm, a practicing attorney and the color commentator for Notre Dame football.

            Tom Jernstedt
            Jernstedt spent 38 years with the NCAA beginning in 1972, rising to the title of Executive Vice President and most notably overseeing the men’s basketball Final Four and working with the men’s basketball tournament selection committee. An Oregon native and former University of Oregon athlete, the 68-year-old Jernstedt is a past president of USA Basketball and member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame.

            Oliver Luck
            Director of athletics at West Virginia, Luck led the Mountaineers into the Big 12 Conference. Luck, 53, is a Cleveland native and former Rhodes Scholar finalist who played quarterback for West Virginia and the Houston Oilers. He formerly was vice president of business development for the NFL, president of NFL Europe, and the first president of the Houston Dynamo of MLS.

            Archie Manning
            From Drew, Miss., and a longtime New Orleans resident, Archie Manning is a University of Mississippi legend who played quarterback in the NFL from 1971-84. A frequent football commentator, the 64-year-old also runs the annual Manning Passing Academy with his sons.

            Tom Osborne
            Osborne, from Hastings, Neb., led the University of Nebraska football team to national championships in 1994, 1995 and 1997 (a shared title) and 13 conference championships. After retiring as the Cornhuskers’ coach, he served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives and also was Nebraska’s athletics director. Osborne is 76.

            Dan Radakovich
            Director of athletics at Clemson, Radakovich is one of 10 athletic directors appointed to lead the NCAA’s restructuring efforts. The 54-year-old Aliquippa, Pa., native previously was director of athletics at Georgia Tech and American University.

            Condoleezza Rice
            Rice, 58, served as the United States’ National Security Advisor from 2001-05 and Secretary of State from 2005-09. A native of Birmingham, Ala., she holds degrees from the University of Denver and Notre Dame, and is a professor of political science at Stanford, where she has been on faculty at Stanford since 1981.

            Mike Tranghese
            Tranghese was commissioner of the Big East Conference for 19 years until his retirement in June, 2008. Tranghese, 69, joined the league at its inception in 1979 and guided it through the addition of football and later expansion and contraction.

            Steve Wieberg
            A 59-year-old Missouri resident, Wieberg was a college sports reporter and original member of the USA TODAY staff from 1982 to 2012.

            Tyrone Willingham
            Willingham, 59, is a former coach at Stanford, Notre Dame and the University of Washington. A Michigan State grad, his coaching career spanned 32 seasons, and now he works as a volunteer assistant for the Stanford women’s golf team.

          • Sooner Ray says:

            I really only wanted first names and shoe sizes. 🙂

          • Boomer4life says:

            Lmao! I will remember that for next time. Looks like alot homers on the list though, without alot of B12 influence. Just sayin.

          • EasTex says:

            Sure are a bunch of people on that list with connections to the ‘Fightin’ Frenchies’ from South Bend.

          • Boomer4life says:

            Looks like notre dame is in.

          • Sooner Ray says:

            Yep, worried me the first time I heard the list. They all have respectable backgrounds so let’s hope they will make honest decisions.

          • EasTex says:

            Hope isn’t a strategy.
            Sooners need to win out and spank that a__ hard while doing so.

          • Sooner Ray says:

            Yup, I’m afraid we’re in a single elimination tournament from now on.

          • EasTex says:

            Coaches and team leaders will need to keep the players focused, can’t afford any let downs like last year’s losses or a trap game.

          • EasTex says:

            The four game stretch from mid September to mid October could be a
            grind. Vols at home will be a very emotional and physically demanding
            game, followed by road games to WVU and TCU, followed by the RRS. After
            that grind, they get KSU at home. Not an easy schedule, but if they win
            out I believe it gives the Sooners some serious cred.

          • Gary Robbins says:

            Thank you very much, one heck of an post. Took me a pot of coffee to read and decipher. Whoever appointed these people had enough smarts to appoint 13(in case of tie). We have some hope; Jeff Long chairman and former OU official), Oliver Luck (West Virginia), and MAYBE Tom Osborne Nebraska) What an hodgepodge of people, it would’ve taken me 2 days to post all that. It would be nice to be a fly on the wall during these meetings.

          • Boomer4life says:

            NP! It took just a few sec to post with a copy and paste. I wonder how many of these individuals are season ticket holders anywhere. Food for thought.