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Oklahoma football: Sooners still QB-U, but by just a slim margin

Oklahoma's Jackson Arnold (10) and Dillon Gabriel (8) during a practice for the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) football team in Norman, Okla., Friday, Aug. 4, 2023.

Over the past several years, the Oklahoma football program, long recognized as a running-back factory, has been designated in ESPN’s annual “Position-U” rankings as No. 1 in the recruitment and development of college quarterbacks and, thus, the classification as “Quarterback-U.”

For well over a decade now, it has been a two-way battle between OU and USC for the title of QB-U. ESPN has just published its 2023 edition of the Position-U rankings, and the Sooners retain the No.