The Indiana Hoosiers were crowned national champions on Monday, and by the next day, everyone else, including Vegas, was already looking to who will win it all next season in Las Vegas.
BetMGM on Tuesday released updated future odds for which college football team has the best chance to win the national championship on Jan. 25, 2027, and the Oklahoma Sooners seemed like a forgotten outsider considering who was ahead of them.
BetMGM gives Sooners poor odds to win national championship next season
The Sooners were handed +3000 odds to win the 2026 national title, which was the 13th-best on BetMGM's list. Ohio State was rightfully on top at +600 with several key pieces returning, but many others ahead of OU did not make any sense based on what the Sooners just accomplished and who they have coming back in 2026.
Right above OU was Michigan with +2500 odds. The Sooners handled the Wolverines 24-13 in 2025 in Norman and will travel to Ann Arbor next season. Both teams return their starting quarterbacks and will have similar rosters clashing again, but running back Justice Haynes gave Brent Venables' defense the most problems in the last meeting. Haynes, though, is transferring and was replaced by Taylor Tatum, who just left OU because he was buried on the Sooners' depth chart.
That Week 2 meeting will also just be Michigan's second game with Kyle Whittingham in charge after firing Sherrone Moore this offseason. A college football coach hasn't won a national title in his first year at a program since 2001. Meanwhile, Venables enters his fifth season leading the Sooners with most of his roster and staff still intact.
LSU is also far ahead of the Sooners at +1500 despite Lane Kiffin taking over after leaving Ole Miss, which right below OU with +4000 odds.
Miami, after losing in the College Football Playoff National Championship, is right above Michigan with +2000 odds. The Hurricanes have to replace quarterback Carson Beck and are entering desperation mode for who their QB1 will be in 2026 after a veteran presence helped carry them this past season.
Indiana (+800), Alabama (+1500), LSU (+1500) and Texas Tech (+1500) also all have to replace their starting quarterbacks, but were above the Sooners, with John Mateer returning instead of heading to the NFL early.
The odds were never in the Sooners' favor in 2025 either, though, and they still went 10-2 during the regular season to earn a spot in the College Football Playoff.