NORMAN — OU football’s 2025 SEC schedule mirrors its first, including a tough November stretch that features plenty of challenges.
The Sooners will host Auburn, LSU, Missouri and Ole Miss next season while traveling to Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee next season, the SEC announced Wednesday.
OU’s SEC slate begins Sept. 20 at home against Auburn.
The Sooners will look to rebound from a 6-6 regular-season finish this season that featured a 2-6 rebound in conference play.
OU beat Auburn and Alabama but fell to Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Missouri and LSU.
The Sooners’ SEC schedule was among the toughest in the conference, with OU’s opponents winning 34 SEC games outside of victories vs. the Sooners. Mississippi State’s conference opponents won 32 and Florida’s and Kentucky’s won 31.
OU will take on Texas on Oct. 11 in the Cotton Bowl in the Red River Rivalry. While OU will take on Kent State the week before, the Longhorns will play at Florida on Oct. 4.
The Sooners will make their first trip to South Carolina on Oct. 18 before hosting Ole Miss on Oct. 25.
The November schedule will be tough once again, starting with a Nov. 1 trip to Tennessee.
OU’s only previous game in Knoxville was a classic, a 31-24 OU win in a double overtime thriller in 2015.
The Sooners’ will play at Alabama on Nov. 15, their second-ever game in Tuscaloosa. OU escaped with a 20-13 win there in 2003.
OU wraps up the regular season with back-to-back home games, against Missouri on Nov. 22 and LSU on Nov. 29.
The Sooners’ non-conference schedule had already been known, highlighted by a Sept. 6 matchup with Michigan in Norman in the first game of a home-and-home series.
OU has faced the Wolverines only once before, in the 1975 Orange Bowl, which the Sooners won 14-6.
The Sooners will open their season Aug. 30 against Illinois State at home and will travel to Temple on Sept. 13 before beginning conference play.
OU’s non-conference schedule wraps up Oct. 4 when it hosts Kent State.
OU football schedule 2025
- Aug. 30: Illinois State
- Sept. 6: Michigan
- Sept. 13: at Temple
- Sept. 20: Auburn
- Sept. 27: BYE
- Oct. 4: Kent State
- Oct. 11: vs. Texas in Dallas
- Oct. 18: at South Carolina
- Oct. 25: Ole Miss
- Nov. 1: at Tennessee
- Nov. 8: BYE
- Nov. 15: at Alabama
- Nov. 22: Missouri
- Nov. 29: LSU