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Oklahoma football: Sooners begin, end 2021 season on road

By Chip Rouse

NORMAN, OK - NOVEMBER 23: Safety Pat Fields #10, and offensive lineman Marcus Alexander #74 of the Oklahoma Sooners run onto the field for a game against the TCU Horned Frogs on November 23, 2019 at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. OU held on to win 28-24. (Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images)
NORMAN, OK - NOVEMBER 23: Safety Pat Fields #10, and offensive lineman Marcus Alexander #74 of the Oklahoma Sooners run onto the field for a game against the TCU Horned Frogs on November 23, 2019 at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. OU held on to win 28-24. (Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images) /
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The 2021 Oklahoma football schedule is now complete and has the Sooners playing six home games, but beginning and ending next season on the road.

Oklahoma will kickoff the season at Tulane, out of the American Athletic Conference, on Sept. 4 before returning home for three consecutive home games to close out September. The Green Wave were 6-6 in 2020.

The home opener will be against an FCS opponent, the Western Carolina Catamounts, on Sept. 11. The Catamounts, who compete in the Southern Conference, were 0-3 last season in a shortened schedule altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of those three losses was to conference foe Liberty, which finished No. 17 in the final Associate Press poll.

Nebraska comes to Norman the following weekend in a renewal of a longtime conference rivalry. Between them, Oklahoma and Nebraska won 75 conference championships in the Big Eight and all of its previous iterations. This will mark the 87th meeting between the Sooners and Cornhuskers and also is the 50th anniversary of the renowned “Game of the Century” in 1971, which featured No. 1 Nebraska against No. 2 Oklahoma.

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The Sooners will open the Big 12 campaign hosting West Virginia on Sept. 25.

Unlike last season, when Oklahoma played no home games in the month of October, the Sooners will be at home on Oct. 16 to face TCU and again on Oct. 30 with Texas Tech providing the opposition.

Also in October, the Sooners make a couple of trips north to the Sunflower State, at Kansas State on Oct. 3 and Kansas on Oct. 23.

Oklahoma and Texas hold their annual rivalry gathering on Oct. 10 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The Sooners have won nine of the last 12 games in the series and will be the designated road team in 2021.

OU will be idle the first weekend in November, their only scheduled bye week in the 2021 season before finishing out the regular season at Baylor on Nov. 13, home to take on Iowa State Nov. 20 and at Oklahoma State on Nov. 27.

This will be the 17th time in the 26-year history of the Big 12 that that Oklahoma and Oklahoma State have met on the final weekend of the regular season.

The final two games on the schedule in all likelihood will determine the two teams that will play for the Big 12 championship on Dec. 4 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Oklahoma has won the last six conference titles.

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