Berry Tramel
Tulsa World Sports Columnist
Brent Venables doesn’t care who the Southeastern Conference makes his Sooners play. And that’s OK.
Lane Kiffin does care who the SEC makes his Rebels play. And you know what? That’s OK, too.
OU and Ole Miss have been paired as annual rivals in the SEC’s new nine-game format, at least for the next four seasons, and Mississippi’s Kiffin was less than thrilled.
“Oklahoma is really disappointing,” Kiffin said on the SEC teleconference last week. “We don’t have anything in common with them, or our fans. So that doesn’t make any sense at all.
“And so that’s unfortunate with so many great teams that we’ve played for a long time here, especially from our SEC West (division) years. So that’s unfortunate, but it is what it is.”
Kiffin, of course, ha