The College Football Playoff is expanding access, extending hope and making more money than ever. But in the process, the sport is sacrificing the one thing that always separated it from every other sport: the importance of the regular season.
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When the Roles Reversed, Oklahoma Hesitated — and Alabama Didn’t
At the highest level of college football, games aren’t decided by playbooks. They’re decided by belief. By comfort under pressure. By which team understands who…
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Three Plays, One Collapse: How Oklahoma Let a Playoff Win Slip Away
There are losses you can explain away with matchups, injuries, or talent disparities. And then there are losses like Oklahoma’s 34–24 College Football Playoff defeat…
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Oklahoma Sooners vs. Alabama Crimson Tide | How to Watch, Storylines, Odds, & Predictions
Oklahoma opens its College Football Playoff run against an Alabama team that arrives in Norman searching for answers after a humbling SEC Championship loss. The…
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Friday Night in Norman: Why Oklahoma Holds the Upper Hand in a CFP Rematch with Alabama
The expanded College Football Playoff was designed to deliver moments like this — high-stakes rematches, hostile environments, and two national brands colliding with everything on…
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Sooner Nation Podcast | Oklahoma vs. Alabama and the First Round of the CFP
College Football Playoff games aren’t decided by playbooks or surprises. They’re decided by composure. In this episode of the Sooner Nation Podcast, we break down…
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Pressure, Poise, and the Quiet Battle That Will Decide Oklahoma vs. Alabama
Normal college football games are usually decided by execution. College Football Playoff games are decided by emotion. When Oklahoma and Alabama meet again on Friday…
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College Football Playoff | Three Sooners Alabama Must Solve
The Oklahoma X-Factors Who Could Decide the Rematch In rematches at the highest level of college football, games aren’t decided by surprise. They’re decided by…
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Sooner Nation Podcast | Proof, Pressure, and the Price of Adjustment
In this episode of the Sooner Nation Podcast, we break down three pivotal moments across Oklahoma sports — all connected by one common theme: how…
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Oklahoma vs. Alabama: The Adjustments Are Coming — and the Rematch Is Still Complicated
In the days leading up to Oklahoma’s College Football Playoff rematch with Alabama, a familiar assumption has taken hold across the national conversation. Alabama lost…
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