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Oklahoma Lands Spot in Alamo Bowl

The Sooners have never played in the game, and they'll get a chance to match up with the Oregon Ducks on Dec. 29.

John E. Hoover

With everything that's happened this season, Oklahoma is bound to remember the Alamo.

The Sooners will play in the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 29 against the Oregon Ducks, the bowl announced on Sunday afternoon.

It's Oklahoma's first-ever visit to the Alamo Bowl.

No. 16-ranked OU (10-2) and Oregon (10-3) haven't met since their controversial meeting in Eugene, OR, back in 2006. They also played in the Holiday Bowl in 2005, and met in a regular-season game in Norman in 2004. OU won the first two (31-7 and 17-14) before the final game ended dubiously (34-33).

OU was ranked No. 2 to start this season but fell short of the Big 12 Championship Game, while No. 14 Oregon was picked to win the Pac-12 North and is coming off a loss to Utah in the Pac-12 title game.

The game kicks off at 8:15 p.m. inside the Alamodome and will be televised by ESPN. Ticket information will be announced at later da

It's the first time the Alamo Bowl has featured two 10-win teams, and it's the highest-ranked matchup in the game's history.

It's also the eighth meeting in the history between UO and OU. OU leads the all-time series 6-1, including that setback in 2006.

OU is going into the postseason under interim coach Bob Stoops after Lincoln Riley ducked out to take the job at USC, while Ducks coach Mario Cristobal has been widely reported to be in line to take over at Miami, FL, potentially leaving Oregon with an interim coach as well.

OU is making its 55th bowl appearance, which ranked fourth in the nation, and their 23rd in a row, which is the longest in school history and ranks second nationally behind Georgia's current 25-year bowl streak.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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