Oklahoma is headed to Gainesville as a clear underdog in Week 10.
Circa Sports opened the Sooners at minus-7 for their Nov. 7 trip to Florida, setting up a road test for a team that has been stuck in neutral for much of the season. Oklahoma enters at 4-4 overall and 2-3 in SEC play, while Florida sits at 5-3 and 3-3.
Kickoff is set for 6:45 p.m. CT, 7:45 p.m. local time, at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, with the game on SEC Network.
The Sooners have not been a reliable bet this fall, either. Oklahoma is 3-5 against the spread this season, according to TruMedia data.
This matchup also carries a little history with it, even if it’s the first time these teams will meet in the regular season. Oklahoma and Florida have played only twice before, and both came in the postseason.
The first was the BCS National Championship Game after the 2008 season, when Florida beat Oklahoma 24-14 in the Orange Bowl. The Sooners got the last word in the series, rolling to a 55-20 win in the Cotton Bowl at the end of the pandemic-impacted 2020 season.
Now they meet again as SEC opponents, and both are stumbling into the game after rough Week 9 losses.
Florida is coming off a 28-7 defeat to rival Georgia in Atlanta. That loss was its third in the last four games, a sharp drop after a strong opening month under first-year head coach Jon Sumrall.
The Gators began SEC play 2-0 with wins over Auburn and a ranked Ole Miss team, then went 1-3 in October. Their lone October win was a 27-24 road victory against a ranked Texas team.
That Texas win came one week after Oklahoma knocked off then-No. 1 UT in the Red River Rivalry, a result that stood as the season’s peak for the Sooners.
Since then, Brent Venables’ team has gone right back into the kind of uneven stretch that has defined too much of Year 5. Oklahoma is 4-4 overall and 2-3 in the SEC, a year after reaching the College Football Playoff, and it has alternated wins and losses all season.
The Sooners are one of two Power Four teams to follow that pattern this fall, with Arizona State the other.
Their latest loss was a rough one. Oklahoma fell 42-25 at home to South Carolina, and the defeat marked back-to-back home losses for the first time since 2014.
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