Brent Venables wasn’t ready to open the door on staff changes after Oklahoma’s 42-25 loss to South Carolina on Saturday, even with the Sooners’ offensive problems continuing to drag the season off course.
The defeat was another rough chapter in a year that has gone win-loss, win-loss all the way through. Oklahoma managed only 121 total yards and 10 points before the fourth quarter, and by then the game had already slipped out of reach as South Carolina piled on points against a defense that usually carries the load.
Asked after the game whether he planned to make any offensive staff changes, Venables shut the conversation down. He told Sooner Scoop’s Georga Stoia III that he wasn’t “talking about anything like that” in his press conference.
I asked Brent Venables if he plans to make any offensive staff changes.
“Yeah, I’m not talking about anything like that.” #Sooners
- George Stoia III (@GeorgeStoia) November 1, 2026
The numbers on Oklahoma’s offense keep telling the same story. The Sooners haven’t scored more than 30 points since Week 1, and against Power 4 opponents they’ve cleared 20 points only three times. Even those outings came with asterisks: 27 points against Texas, with defensive and special teams touchdowns; 23 at Mississippi State, when the Bulldogs were without their starting quarterback for most of the game; and 25 against South Carolina, again with a defensive score and very little offensive production through three quarters.
With an offense that hasn’t found much traction, Oklahoma’s defense hasn’t been enough to keep the season on track. Instead of thinking about a playoff push, the Sooners are now in bowl-game mode.
Oklahoma is 4-4 overall and 2-3 in the SEC, and it heads to Gainesville to face Florida on Nov. 7 at 7:45 p.m. ET on SEC Network.
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