Oklahoma pregame notes ahead of showdown with Houston

Oklahoma and Houston are set to kickoff at 6:45 p.m. CT. Clear skies at about 79 degrees at game time.

Here are the pregame notes from Oklahoma’s sports information department:

No. 16/16 Oklahoma (1-0) plays its second straight home game

to open the 2024 season when it hosts Houston (0-1) on Saturday at

6:45 p.m. CT at Gaylord Family — Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in

Norman. The game will be televised by SEC Network with Tom Hart,

Jordan Rodgers and Cole Cubelic announcing. Saturday’s game is part of a two-game home-and-home series, withOU slated to play at Houston’s TDECU Stadium on Sept. 16, 2028.

The Sooners and Cougars were both members of the Big 12

Conference in 2023, but did not meet. Before OU joined the SEC on

July 1, it spent 28 years in the Big 12 and won 14 league titles.

The 2024 season marks the 130th in OU football history. The Sooners lead the nation with their 50 all-time conference championships, 27 11-plus-win seasons (tied), 33 AP top-five finishes and five No. 1 overall NFL Draft picks (tied). They rank second with their seven Heisman Trophy winners (tied), third with seven AP national championships, their 101 weeks as the AP’ s No. 1 team and 431 total weeks in the AP Top 5, and fourth with their 57 bowl appearances, 31 bowl wins (tied) and 417 NFL Draft picks.

Today’s contest will mark the 1,340th in OU history. The Sooners

rank fifth in college football annals with their .725 all-time winning

percentage (945-341-53 record). They trail Ohio State (.734),

Michigan (.734), Alabama (.733) and Notre Dame (.730). Since the

end of World War II (1946 season to present), OU leads all programs

with 701 wins (31 more than Alabama, the program with the next

most) and owns a .766 winning percentage.

Going back to the start of the 1998 campaign, Oklahoma is 25-1 in its second game of the season. The lone loss during the stretch came in 2020 when unranked Kansas State beat No. 3 OU 38-35 in Norman.

The Sooners are coming off a 51-3 season-opening home win over Temple in which they registered six

takeaways and converted them into 34 points. It was the first Friday night home game in program history.

u Houston, which finished 4-8 overall and 2-7 in the Big 12 Conference last season, lost 27-7 at home to UNLV on Saturday. The Cougars were outgained 308 yards to 247.