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Report: Oklahoma Adds 2027 Football Opponent

The Sooners will play Utah State in Norman, according to a report Monday from FB Schedules.

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Oklahoma has added a future non-conference opponent to the football schedule.

OU will play host to Utah State in 2027, according to report Monday by FBSchedules.com.

The Sooners and Aggies will meet on Sept. 4, 2027. According to the report, OU will pay USU a $1.5 million guarantee for the game.

The contract information was obtained from Utah State University through a state public records request. The contract was signed on June 11, 2024.

It’ll be the sixth meeting between Oklahoma and Utah State, with their most recent meeting a 31-24 victory in 2010. OU is 5-0 all-time against the Aggies.

The SEC is widely expected to move from an eight-game conference schedule to a nine-game format after the 2025 season, which would mean OU’s three non-conference opponents are set. The Sooners are contracted to play at SMU on Sept. 11 and host San Diego State on Sept. 18. Those dates might be moved if the SEC decides OU needs to play a conference game on one of those dates.

OU is scheduled to play Illinois State, Michigan, at Temple and Kent State in 2025 in its second season in the SEC.

In 2026, the Sooners’ non-conference games are UTEP, at Michigan and New Mexico, while the 2028 schedule consists of games against Temple, at Houston and home versus Colorado State.

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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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