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Oklahoma football: Sooners on upward swing in post-spring top-25 polls for 2023

By Chip Rouse

Oklahoma Defensive Back Jayden Rowe (27) goes through drills as the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU ) hold fall football camp outside The Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 in Norman, Okla. (Alonzo Adams/For The Oklahoman).oufoot -- print jump
Oklahoma Defensive Back Jayden Rowe (27) goes through drills as the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU ) hold fall football camp outside The Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 in Norman, Okla. (Alonzo Adams/For The Oklahoman).oufoot -- print jump /
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With spring practice and spring games now in the rear-view mirror for Oklahoma football and other major college programs, the media have begun to revise their way-too-early top-25 projections for the 2023 season.

Two such revised post-spring top-25 college football projections have been issued by USA Today and 247Sports, and the Sooners have moved up several positions in both.

Reigning national champion Georgia remains firmly entrenched at No. 1 both the USA Today and 247Sports revised, post-spring projections. There is a lot of movement in other spots. however.

The Sooners are one of the teams that are receiving more love than when the initial way-too-early top-25 projections began coming out in January after the College Football Playoff national championship was decided.

OU is up to No. 18 in the USA Today post-spring top 25. That’s up three spots from No. 21 when the first USA Today top-25 forecast for 2023 came out in January.

The Sooners also showed upward improvement, from No, 23 up to No. 20, in the 247Sports post=spring top 25 for the 2023 season.

In both revised polls, a top four-ranked recruiting class and strong pickups through the transfer portal are cited as big reasons for the revised outlook for Oklahoma heading into the new season.

No. 9 Texas is the only Big 12 ranked higher than the Sooners in the post-spring USA Today top 25. Kansas State (20), TCU (22) and Texas Tech (23) rank behind OU.

Texas (9), TCU (17) and Kansas State (18) all remain ahead of the Sooners in the 247Sports post-spring top-25 poll.

There could be further shakeup and revision in the preseason rankings as we move through the summer months and when preseason training camps open in August.

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