USA Today was the latest media outlet to offer its assessment of where Oklahoma stands in relation to the best teams in the country and a good part of the SEC to begin the 2025 college football season.
USA Today Sports issued what it called its 1-136 2025 college football preseason re-rank, which included revisions to the publication's post-spring preseason ranking in May. Oklahoma was definitely one of the teams that benefited from the revised assessment as new information and evaluations became available over the summer.
The Sooners were ranked No. 11 in the revamped USA Today rankings.