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Poll Report: Oklahoma Vaults Into Top 5 After Signature Win Over Texas

Brent Venables' Sooners have arrived halfway through his second season after Saturday's dramatic 34-30 win over Texas.

Ryan Chapman

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Oklahoma has college football’s full attention.

One day after Dillon Gabriel marched the Sooners down the field to top Texas 34-30, Brent Venables’ program is shooting up the polls.

OU was ranked No. 5 in the country in the most recent AP Poll that dropped on Sunday, up seven spots from being slotted at 12th last week.

The Longhorns slid back to No. 9, falling off the top three perch Steve Sarkisian has his squad sitting upon last week.

Oklahoma didn’t raise as high in the USA Today Coaches Poll, as OU checked in at No. 7 and Texas fell to 11th.

After successfully turning around last year’s 49-0 defeat in the Cotton Bowl, Venables will now have a week to help his team decompress.

The Sooners are off next weekend, and will return to action to put their 6-0 record on the line against the reeling UCF Knights.

Gus Malzahn’s Big 12 newcomers have lost three straight to open conference play after getting torched 51-22 at the hands of the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday.

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Ryan Chapman
RYAN CHAPMAN

Ryan is managing editor at Sooners On SI and covers a number of sports in and around Norman and Oklahoma City. Working both as a journalist and a sports talk radio host, Ryan has covered the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the United States Men’s National Soccer Team, the Oklahoma City Energy and more. Since 2019, Ryan has simultaneously pursued a career as both a writer and a sports talk radio host, working for the Flagship for Oklahoma sports, 107.7 The Franchise, as well as AllSooners.com. Ryan serves as a contributor to The Franchise’s website, TheFranchiseOK.com, which was recognized as having the “Best Website” in 2022 by the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters. Ryan holds an associate’s degree in Journalism from Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma City, OK. 

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