Probably the most anticipated video games on the 2024 schedule for the Oklahoma Sooners comes on September 21. It’s the primary convention recreation within the SEC for OU and probably the most storied packages in faculty soccer involves city. The Tennessee Volunteers will probably be in Norman, and certainly one of their most well-known alums will aparanetly be there as effectively.
NFL Corridor of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning quarterbacked the Volunteers earlier than turning into the No. 1 general choose within the 1998 NFL Draft. He advised his former NFL teammate Pat McAfee on “The Pat McAfee Present” that he’ll be in attendance at Gaylord Household-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
“I’m going to the Tennessee-Oklahoma recreation in Norman this 12 months,” the two-time Tremendous Bowl champ stated. “I feel it’s Oklahoma’s first Southeastern Convention recreation, they’re enjoying my Tennessee Vols in Norman, not too removed from Denver (the place Manning lives.)”
Manning went on to say he’s excited for the Sooners and the Texas Longhorns to affix the SEC and thinks they’ll each match into the convention. He additionally stated he was excited for the brand new rivalries that will probably be created within the league.
Oklahoma-Tennessee will probably be an enormous recreation for loads of causes, because the SEC lastly involves Owen Subject in convention motion. Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel quarterbacked the Sooners to the nationwide championship in 2000 (whereas Brent Venables coached a suffocating protection), and was OU’s offensive coordinator from 2011 to 2014. After being fired, he’s made fairly the profession for himself, touchdown on Rocky Prime, the place he’s reinvigorated a sleeping large in Knoxville.
Count on fireworks that night in Norman, as two electrical offenses will probably be led by first-year starters Jackson Arnold and Nico Iamaleava, each five-star recruits within the 2023 class.
Perhaps one (or each) of these QBs may have a magical efficiency in entrance of top-of-the-line quarterbacks to ever placed on a chinstrap.
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