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Oklahoma Names Captains for Tulsa Game

Five Sooners, including a surprise sophomore selection, will lead their team against TU this week.
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Oklahoma Names Captains for Tulsa Game
Oklahoma Names Captains for Tulsa Game

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Oklahoma named team captains for this week’s game at Tulsa.

Junior defensive end Ethan Downs, senior defensive end Trace Ford, junior offensive tackle Tyler Guyton, senior tight end Austin Stogner and sophomore cornerback Gentry Williams will represent their teammates this week when OU plays at TU.

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Williams, a first-year starter from Tulsa, is a surprise pick to lead his squad in his home town, as he’s not only a young player but he's also coming off an injury in last Saturday’s win over SMU, after which head coach Brent Venables said Williams seemed “a little stiff.”

Downs, from Weatherford, was a preseason pick for the All-Big 12 team.

The other three captains are all transfers (Ford from Oklahoma State, Stogner from one year at South Carolina) or former transfer (Guyton from TCU).

The Sooners and Golden Hurricane kick off at 2:30 p.m. at Chapman Stadium. The game will be carried by ESPN2.

OU leads the all-time series 20-7-1, including 7-3 in Tulsa.

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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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