Oklahoma’s next SEC home game now has a kickoff time, and it comes under the lights.
The Sooners will face Kentucky at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 17, with the game set for the SEC Network, the conference announced Monday afternoon.
That matchup gives OU a fourth all-time meeting with the Wildcats and sends Kentucky back to Norman for only its second visit. The teams have not seen each other since the 1980s, when Oklahoma beat Kentucky 29-8 in Lexington in 1982 after a 29-7 win in Norman two years earlier.
Their first meeting came in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 1951, when Kentucky won 13-7 in New Orleans. The Sooners are scheduled to return the trip to Lexington in the 2028 football season.
Kentucky enters the date with momentum in league play. In Will Stein’s first season leading the program, the Wildcats have already picked up two road conference wins.
They beat Texas A&M 31-21 on Sept. 19, then followed that up with a wild comeback at South Carolina last week. Kentucky erased a 17-0 deficit and finished off the Gamecocks 35-34 on a two-point conversion in overtime.
This weekend brings another major test, with No. 10 LSU coming to Lexington as Kentucky tries to move to 3-1 in conference play.
Its only SEC loss so far came against Alabama in Stein’s opener last month.
Oklahoma, meanwhile, had last week off after a difficult stretch to open the season. The Sooners dropped a game to No.
2 Georgia before the bye, and the focus now shifts to No. 1 Texas and Saturday’s Red River Rivalry.
That showdown is set for 2:30 p.m.
The Kentucky game will be Oklahoma’s first at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium since a 14-6 win over New Mexico on Sept. 19. After Texas, the Sooners head to Mississippi State and then come back home to finish the month against South Carolina.
The rest of OU’s schedule features a busy stretch of home-and-away swings, with final home games against Ole Miss and Texas A&M split up by trips to Florida and Missouri. Five of Oklahoma’s six remaining games do not yet have kickoff times, and all but the Texas A&M matchup are slated for afternoon or evening windows. The Texas A&M game will fall in the early slot, sometime between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.
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