Oklahoma Seemingly Replaces Arkansas as SEC Whipping Boys

Razorback fans can breathe easily for at least one season that league appears to have made Sooners its target for the short straw instead

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It looks like, for one season at least, that Arkansas is no longer the SEC whipping boy. That role appears to have been transferred over to Oklahoma.

If it's a secret, it's been the worst kept secret in America, that the Razorbacks have been treated poorly when it comes to decisions made by the SEC brass. From the league's decision to have Arkansas fans pay for the rights to watch the Razorbacks play Alabama in an SEC game for the first time in 1992 via pay per view, to stripping the LSU game from Thanksgiving week so Texas A&M could have the slot while the Hogs were banished to play Missouri, to the lack of balance in the 2020 SEC-only pandemic schedule, if there is a short straw to be drawn, Arkansas has drawn it.

Until now. In what appears to be a blatant attempt to kiss the backside of the Texas Longhorns, the SEC dumped a giant pile of specialized Birmingham organic fertilizer on the front door step over in Norman as a welcome gift. Knowing the Sooners were already short a home game because of the Texas-OU game in Dallas, the league decided that instead of breaking up surging programs Tennessee and LSU to pair with stalwarts Alabama and Georgia to make things more balanced, the Sooners inherited both as a side dish to Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide.

The league must have been so confused by the Arkansas look of the Oklahoma uniforms that it mistakenly handed the Sooners the proposed Razorback schedule because the Hogs landed the best schedule Arkansas fans have ever seen. As for Oklahoma, the best its fans can do is be happy Texas and Alabama stuck with their contract to play each other in '22 and '23 because, if Oklahoma really is receiving the Arkansas treatment, the Sooners would have somehow been stuck with Georgia in Athens. Of course, avoiding a seemingly unbeatable Georgia program in exchange for an Alabama program that is at its weakest in over a decade still isn't much of a consolation prize. Alabama at its weakest is still better than anything the Big 12 has thrown out in the past decade.

As for Arkansas fans, having the target moved off the Razorbacks, no matter how temporary it might turn out to be, is a welcome respite. Perhaps a catering of barbecue sent the Sooners way as a thank you for stepping in the way of that giant Birmingham boot is in order.

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