Supposedly UGA was in discussions with OU, but perhaps this is in lieu of that for OU.
Sooners heard that rumor too. Maybe this was the source of it:
https://thespun.com/college-football/georgia-oklahoma-football-series-schedules.
I rather take exception to this in the story.
Oklahoma’s next decade worth of non-conference opponents is a little murkier. Aside from games against Big Ten giants Michigan and Nebraska, and a 2020 game against Tennessee the Sooners have relatively little meat on their non-conference schedule.
OU's OOC opponents from 2020 to 2036 include: Nebraska x 4; Tennessee x 2; Michigan x2; Alabama x2; Clemson x2; LSU x2.
OU's got seasons with no marquee OOC game so far in 2023, 2031, and 2034. 2023 will mark the centennial of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, so we're hoping for a big-name rival. Some of us jumped to the conclusion that the supposed games with Georgia might include one in Norman that season. That would have been good news. Not the biggest of big names, but big, and one who's got scoreboard on us in our only meeting and who is at the top of their game right now.
But my default big-name program is always Notre Dame, even though the Irish "are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven," they are what they are. We played a singleton game at South Bend in 1999, and I'd like to see a decades-later follow-up in Norman. 2023 would be a good year for that.
Other teams we don't have scheduled down the road (and haven't played semi-recently) that I'd like to see us play start with USC--the butt-kicking we took in the 2004-season Orange Bowl NC game still stings like two losses. And then, in no particular order:
Penn State
Wisconsin
Stanford
Florida
I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking about.
We've never played Michigan State. That should end some day.
We're 0-1 vs. Navy. We should try to find an opportunity to address that some day.
We're 3-4 vs. Miami. I'd like to see a series with the Canes. We went 33-3 from 1985 through 1987. The three losses were to Miami, and they cost us two national championships. Incredibly, the other Miami win was one of Randy Shannon's insufficient-number-to-keep-his-job wins as Miami HFC--21-20 in 2009 over Bob Stoops.