NORMAN, OK - APRIL 24: The Oklahoma Sooners defense gathers after their spring game at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on April 24, 2021 in Norman, Oklahoma. (Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images)
Since Lincoln Riley took over as head coach of the Oklahoma football program, the Sooners have been right there with the best of them at or near the top of the college football rankings.
If OU wasn’t there at No. 4 or 5 to begin the season, Riley’s guys were there at the end.
Every season, when you pick up one of the college football preview publications or scan social media for the latest college news and opinion, you find most of the high-level offseason and preseason praise directed at four different schools from four different conferences.