Oklahoma’s final home game of the season now has a start time.
The Sooners will face Texas A&M at 11:00 a.m. CT in Norman in Week 12, with the broadcast set for ABC, ESPN or the SEC Network. It will be Oklahoma’s only early home kickoff of the season and just the second early start the Sooners have had all year, with the other coming against Michigan.
The matchup also closes out the 2026 home schedule for Oklahoma and serves as the last game on Owen Field for the program’s senior class. That said, Senior Day already took place on September 19 against New Mexico, after OU moved the ceremony up from its usual spot in the final home game.
When the game was first circled, it looked like a meeting between two teams chasing College Football Playoff spots. That hasn’t played out the way either side expected, but the significance for Oklahoma remains: one more chance in Norman for its seniors, and one more shot at an old rival.
Texas A&M is an old Big 12 opponent, and Oklahoma has gone 11-3 against the Aggies since 1999. The Sooners own a 19-12 lead in the all-time series.
This will be the first meeting since the Cotton Bowl at the end of the 2012 season, when Johnny Manziel and the Aggies beat Oklahoma in Arlington, Texas. The last regular-season game between the teams came in 2011, an Oklahoma home win.
Texas A&M’s last trip to Norman ended in a victory back in 1997, and Oklahoma will try to keep that streak from changing this time around.
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