Playing a team a second time in the same season can be both a blessing and a curse, and that's the challenge facing both Oklahoma and Alabama when those two iconic college football programs go against each other at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman on Friday, Dec. 19, in the opening round of the College Football Playoff.
By the time the No. 8 Sooners and No. 9 Crimson Tide kick off their CFP matchup, it will have been just 34 days since they last met on Nov. 15 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Oklahoma, ranked No. 12 at the time, shocked then-No.