Oklahoma Sooners Brent head coach Venables between the 4th year at work Faced with a makeup or breakup season to Norman. The year 2 of the Southeast Conference will be very revealing for its future as a chief coach and for the future of the program as a whole.
Or has only 22-17 in total since Venables took command three seasons ago. A brand of 6-7 in 2022 was rough. A 10-3 campaign in 2023 gave hope for the future. But another record of 6-7 in 2024 made 2025 a critical year for the Sooners.
Venables is 0-3 in bowl matches, even playing in intermediate level bowls. The Sooners have not been to a New Year’s Bowl since 2019, their last year in the university football playoffs. Despite a 4-0 file in matches without conference a season, Oklahoma only had 2-6 in the dry. This means that the Sooners had only three victories against Power Four the competition in the third season of Venables.
The calendar next season seems in fact more difficult than a year ago, with the same opponents of the League but different locations and the Houston game replaced by a visit to Michigan instead. The other three non -conference games in Ou (Illinois State, Temple and Kent State) should be layups, but nine difficult competitions are still waiting.
Put the dull results with a brutal schedule with the constantly evolving climate around university football, in which Oklahoma seems to be late, and you have a head coach who could be more under pressure than anyone 2025.
This is what Brad Crawford believes 247sports. He ranked the Head coaches who do the most pressure next season And Venables is at the top of his list. He was followed in order by Mike Gundy of Oklahoma, Mike Norvell from Florida’s State, Luke Fickell from Wisconsin and Brian Kelly de LSU.
Each of the other five coaches on the list is proven products that need to rebound significantly. Gundy was in Stillwater forever, winning the Big 12 in 2011 and playing for the title of the League in 2015, 2016, 2021 and 2023. But a 3-9 season in 2024 has its slightly hot seat.
Norvell took FSU to a 13-1 file in 2023 when the Seminoles were refused a place in the play-offs of university football by the Committee. But everything crashed in a shocking way in 2024, which means that he will have to prove himself in 2025. Fickell took Cincinnati to the CFP in 2021, the first (and only one) team outside a power conference To do this in the four -pracage of the playoffs. But, his stay at Wisconsin did not go as planned because the badgers did not break into the Big Ten. Kelly trained in a match for the national title in 2012 when he was to Notre Dame and took LSU to the match for the title of the dry in 2022. But a somewhat disappointing 2024 season and a list loaded for the year Next have it under the pistol. In addition, Marcus Freeman, his replacement to South Bend, took the Fighting Irish to the National Championship match in 2024. But Venables, on the other hand, does not have this assessment as a chief trainer. He never did the CFP, never won his conference, never appeared in the conference championship in three years. He had a losing record, a thing unknown to Norman, in Oklahoma, in two out of three seasons. It has been more John Blake than Bob is looking so far. But Venables also has time to reverse the steam. One season, to be exact. He could be subjected to more pressure than any other head coach in sport, but he was fortunate to prove himself as a football trapper.
This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Is Brent Venables faced with the greatest pressure this season?
