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Sooners schedule home-and-home with Clemson
by RYAN ABER
Published: Mon, March 25, 2019 7:35 AM Updated: Tue, March 26, 2019 2:04 PM
Oklahoma and Clemson have met twice in bowl games in recent years.
Now they'll reportedly meet in the regular season, but it won't be for awhile.
The teams will play in Clemson in 2035 and in Norman the next season, FBSchedules.com reported Tuesday.
The site reported that the Sooners would travel to Clemson on Sept. 15, 2035 with the return game the next Sept. 13, though the contract has language allowing the dates to be shifted.
The Sooners and Tigers have met five times on the field, with Clemson holding a 3-2 advantage. Oklahoma won the only two regular-season meetings between the two, 31-14 in 1963 and 52-3 in 1972. Both of those games were in Norman. The Tigers beat the Sooners in bowl games following the 1988, 2014 and 2015 seasons.
Oklahoma previously hadn't scheduled any non-conference games past the 2030 trip to Nebraska.
Future non-conference games
2019: Houston, South Dakota, at UCLA
2020: Tennessee, at Army
2021: at Tulane, Nebraska
2022: UTEP, at Nebraska
2024: Temple, at Tennessee
2025: Michigan, at Temple
2026: at Michigan
2028: Temple
2029: Nebraska
2030: at Nebraska
2023 is still open. That will be the 100th anniversary year for Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, so there's suspicion that there will be an extra-special "marquee" opponent for that year.
If so, I'd like it to be Notre Dame. We played a singleton in South Bend in 1999, so it would be good to have the Irish return the favor. We've got scoreboard on them, but our record is only 2-9, so there's some making-up that needs to be done.
If not Notre Dame, maybe USC? That 55-19 drubbing in the 2004 (season) Orange Bowl-NCG still feels like it was two losses.