All posts tagged "Lincoln Riley"

DALLAS — Oklahoma linebacker Kenneth Murray spends a lot of idle time watching old film of his...

  Time again for Ask Hoover, our weekly Friday Twitter mailbag where I answer your college football...

DALLAS — A handful of truths seem immutable when it comes to the Oklahoma-Texas rivalry. One, the...

NORMAN — It seems like Jalen Hurts was born to withstand the heat of high-stakes college football....

AUSTIN, Texas — Longhorns athletic director Chris Del Conte has helped breathe new life into the University...

NORMAN — It is here. The big game has arrived. It’s OU-Texas week. This is the reason...

LAWRENCE, Kansas — Oklahoma got what it wanted on Saturday, but was left wanting so much more....

Time again for Ask Hoover, my weekly Twitter mailbag where I answer your college football questions. That...

NORMAN — You think Oklahoma’s Jeremiah Hall is versatile now? You should have seen him when he...

Oklahoma is 4-0 in 2019 with four blowout wins over Houston, South Dakota, UCLA, and Texas Tech....

NORMAN — Bad news for Oklahoma’s upcoming opponents: Jalen Hurts is evolving as a quarterback. Like some...

NORMAN — Oklahoma defensive coordinator Alex Grinch has extremely well-defined feelings about his players giving effort. “If...

The Recap: My video rewind of the week covering college football in Oklahoma. From Oklahoma State’s disappointing...

Time again for Ask Hoover, my weekly Twitter mailbag where I answer your college football questions. Amid...

NORMAN — Is Oklahoma ready? Did the Sooners get enough done in the non-conference part of their...

Time again for Ask Hoover, my weekly Q&A blog where I answer your questions on Twitter. We...

The Recap: My video rewind of the week covering college football in Oklahoma. From a big win...

NORMAN — There is little debate that Oklahoma’s non-conference schedule this season is the weakest the Sooners...

Gary Patterson certainly has heard the criticisms of the Big 12 Conference. “Everybody keeps talking about us...

Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley, defensive coordinator Alex Grinch and select OU defensive players don’t have a...

After Saturday’s 48-14 victory at UCLA, Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley, defensive coordinator Alex Grinch and several...

A weekly video recap of my work at TheFranchiseOK.com, featuring interviews with Lincoln Riley, Jalen Hurts, Alex...

Time again for Ask Hoover, my weekly college football Twitter Q&A with Franchise listeners, readers and viewers....

NORMAN — No one was happier for Brendan Radley-Hiles’ sudden success on Saturday night than his Oklahoma...

NORMAN — Survey the landscape of the National Football League’s opening weekend and Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley’s...

NORMAN — No. 4-ranked Oklahoma didn’t prepare for South Dakota last week. The Sooners didn’t play a...

My video recap of tonight’s Franchise Drive, in which we go in on the OU and OSU...

Time again for “Ask Hoover,” my weekly mailbag Q&A in which I answer your college football questions....

  NORMAN — Jalen Hurts had a lot of doubters after his performance on Sunday night in...

Highlights of Jalen Hurts’ big debut, thoughts on Hurts, Spencer Sanders and the incredible quarterback play in...

NORMAN — Lincoln Riley, Alex Grinch, Kenneth Murray all walked away from Sunday night’s 49-31 victory over...

NORMAN — It’s a small sample size, and the only data to go on – a terribly...

It’s college football season, and it’s Friday, so that means it’s time again for #AskHoover, my weekly...

Here’s my video recap of tonight’s Franchise Drive recap on 107.7 The Franchise in Oklahoma City, 107.9...

NORMAN — Freshman are just not what they used to be. In contemporary college football, youth matters...

I spoke with Bill Bedenbaugh, CeeDee Lamb and Jalen Hurts last night, and then, just four days...

Oklahoma released its depth chart for Sunday’s game against Houston today, and there were a few surprises....

College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock joined the Franchise Drive tonight, and talked about college football’s...

It’s been about a day since Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley met with the media to discuss the...

On tonight’s Franchise Drive recap, we hear some meaningful stuff from Lincoln Riley, dig deep on Andrew...

NORMAN — Oklahoma football fans have good reason to temper their optimism regarding the Sooner defense this...

NORMAN — Lincoln Riley has announced that Alabama transfer-quarterback Jalen Hurts has been named the starting quarterback. ...

What’s up with the QB competition at Tulsa? Where are OSU’s pitfalls on the 2019 schedule? And...

Bill Bedenbaugh and Mike Gundy make an appearance on tonight’s Short Drive, my video recap of tonight’s...

My video recap of tonight’s Franchise Drive, featuring Alex Grinch, Patrick Fields, Delarrin Turner-Yell, Bookie Radley-Hiles, Jalen...

After visiting with Lincoln Riley and Bill Bedenbaugh on Friday, our Brady Trantham and I stopped by...

Watch Oklahoma offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh talk Sooners o-line play:

My video recap of tonight’s Franchise Drive, including an appearance from Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley:

Lincoln Riley met with the media on Friday after practice. Watch the full video here:

My video recap of tonight’s Franchise Drive on 107.7 The Franchise in OKC, 107.9 The Franchise Tulsa:...

  Tre Norwood’s knee injury has disrupted Oklahoma’s efforts to shore up college football’s most porous secondary,...

My video recap of tonight’s Franchise Drive, featuring clips from Sooners CB Tre Norwood and defensive coordinator...

My video recap of tonight’s Franchise Drive, featuring clips with Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley and Oklahoma State...

Interviews from Oklahoma’s 2019 Media Day on Saturday: Defensive coordinator Alex Grinch: WR CeeDee Lamb: LB Kenneth...

NORMAN — Jalen Hurts is on the clock. There’s an urgency now, five months left in his...

After OU Media Day today, I recorded my first official podcast for The Franchise. Not sure what...

Here’s my video recap for Thursday’s Franchise Drive:

The Big 12 is Oklahoma’s to lose until someone takes it from the Sooners, isn’t it? Oklahoma...

Here’s my video recap for Wednesday’s Franchise Drive:

Here’s my video recap of Friday’s Franchise Drive:

Here’s my video recap of Thursday’s Franchise Drive:

ARLINGTON, Texas – Coaching college football can be a zero-sum game: Win, or get fired. Skyrocketing salaries...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Lincoln Riley gets a lot of praise for winning the Big 12 Conference, for...

A monumental task has been laid at the feet of Alex Grinch. The new defensive coordinator inherits...

Big 12 Media Days is now one week away. Next Monday and Tuesday at AT&T Stadium in...

The Oklahoma Sooners landed four-star defensive back Bryson Washington on Thursday, narrowly beating out their rivals the...

Since the Big 12 adopted the round robin conference schedule, only one team has finished the season...

Only two players have announced their commitments for Oklahoma’s 2021 class, but Lincoln Riley already has found...

By now, everyone knows Lincoln Riley as the architect of the most explosive offense in college football....

The future of college football got a little bit better on Monday morning. Oklahoma and Georgia announced...

Oklahoma offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh got a huge raise in January, a $125,000 bump that to...

Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim acknowledged Thursday night that he had grown tired of watching a...

Kliff Kingsbury finally got his man. The Arizona Cardinals’ new head coach has been chasing Kyler Murray...

In a wholly unprecedented and infinitely shrewd move, Oklahoma’s 2019 season opener against Houston has been moved...

NORMAN — After he led Oklahoma to an easy touchdown as a first-time Sooners quarterback on Friday...

With Saturday wind chills expected to dip into the upper 30s and the possibility of rain, University...

Sooner Nation is a patient lot. Waiting around for more than a decade to play Alabama is...

NORMAN — Jalen Hurts is Oklahoma’s starting quarterback. Exhibit A is his body of work at the...

NORMAN — Just hours before the biggest job interview of his life, Kyler Murray attended a baseball...

NORMAN — Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley addressed a number of compelling issues Wednesday during a press conference...

Kyler Murray finally answered a few questions on Thursday. Well, not really. But he showed up to...

After two years in the College Football Playoff, two Big 12 Conference championships and two Heisman winners...

New Oklahoma defensive coordinator Alex Grinch isn’t exactly a stats geek. But he will, from time to...

Lincoln Riley introduces Alex Grinch   Meet new CBs coach Roy Manning   Meet new inside LBs...

Save for a squib kick here or a field goal attempt there, Lincoln Riley hasn’t made many...

Oklahoma has new quarterback. Alabama’s Jalen Hurts, a two-year starter for the Crimson Tide, announced on The...

Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley clearly has placed his trust in new defensive coordinator Alex Grinch. That’s evident...

Former Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray announced his big decision on Monday in a simple, elegant tweet. At...

Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts reportedly visited Oklahoma over the weekend, and of course, Sooner Nation took to...

Today’s the day. Monday is the deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NFL Draft, and after...

The drama in the Oklahoma quarterback room just got a lot more dramatic. Eric Baily of the...

Kyler Murray’s options are tantalizing, but his decision is far from easy. The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday night that the Oakland A’s expect the Oklahoma quarterback and their first-round draft pick last year to declare for the NFL Draft on Sunday. The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NFL...

Oklahoma made it official just before 7 o’clock on Friday night: Alex Grinch will be the Sooners’...

Lincoln Riley has found his man. According to college football insider Bruce Feldman, Riley has hired Ohio...

Lincoln Riley professed his love for Oklahoma throughout the fall. Oklahoma returned the sentiment on Tuesday. OU...