Now's the time for Sooner Nation to take advantage of its faith in the Oklahoma Sooners.
FanDuel currently has OU's win total for the 2025 college football season set at 6.5, which is a half game better than how the Sooners finished last year after an abysmal season. The Sooners, though, have gotten more than just half a game better since.
FanDuel sets Sooners' win total odds
In our game-by-game predictions for the 2025 schedule, I recently predicted the Sooners to go 9-3 this upcoming season. And other national outlets around the country are also expecting a massive turnaround from the Sooners with Brent Venables' job on the line.
Outside of posting two losing seasons the last three years, the major factor going against OU's win total is another stacked schedule, which College Football News just deemed the 10th-most difficult schedule in the country, and even that seems low.
According to College Football News, though, that means OU's 2025 schedule is actually easier than last season. That then would favor a program that has also improved since the last time it took the field. A better team with a weaker schedule is the recipe for a higher win total.
Michigan was a massive addition to the Sooners' nonconference schedule, but the Wolverines will have to travel to Norman, possibly have a freshman quarterback in that environment and their head coach has a looming suspension the following week. OU's other three nonconference matchups should be easy wins.
The SEC is always daunting, but of OU's eight conference opponents, only LSU and South Carolina returned their starting quarterbacks, the most important position on the field, and really only the Sooners made a tremendous upgrade at the position unless Arch Manning lives up to the hype at Texas. Coincidently, I had LSU and South Carolina as two of the Sooners' three projected losses.
The Sooners added quarterback John Mateer, the No. 1 player available in the transfer portal during the winter, Jaydn Ott, the top transfer running back, and other weapons to surround the two playmakers with. OU also hired Ben Arbuckle as its new offensive coordinator to utilize those weapons.
Those additions have the Sooners' stock rising, which means Vegas could, too, soon have more faith in OU and raise that win-total projection, so now is the time when faith in the Sooners' odds is the least risky.
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