The Sooners will play six home games, as well as five true road games and the annual Red River Rivalry clash against Texas at the Cotton Bowl.

The Alabama Crimson Tide and Oklahoma Sooners square off Saturday afternoon in a game with massive College Football Playoff stakes attached.

NORMAN — Mark your calendars, Oklahoma’s 2026 schedule is here. The conference schedule includes different opponents from OU’s first two seasons in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Texas A&M. The Sooners will still play South Carolina, as well as its three permanent opponents — Texas, Mississippi and Missouri.

The Sooners no doubt needed time off from a health standpoint, but Arbuckle is still asking a lot of his offense to prep for Alabama.

Alabama will face Oklahoma on Friday, December 19 (7 p.m. CT, ABC/ESPN) in Norman, Oklahoma in the first round of the 12-team playoff. If the Crimson Tide wins that game, it will advance to the Rose Bowl to face No. 1 seed Indiana.

Where to watch Oklahoma HS football championship games: Schedule, channel, live stream for OSSAA finals originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Oklahoma high school football wraps up this weekend with six more state champions to be crowned.

With Week 11 of the Oklahoma high school football season in the books, here is the full schedule for the quarterfinals of the state playoffs. All game times are 7 p.m. Friday unless otherwise noted.

Newly hired Oklahoma State football coach Eric Morris will not be involved in North Texas' bowl game preparations.