Things Are Changing for Brent Venables’ Oklahoma as Major Playoff Advantage Confirmed Brent Venables Oklahoma sealed a spot into the College Football Playoff, with a major advantage to change things.

Oklahoma didn’t make its final regular-season statement with style, but it survived it with meaning. A tense 17–13 win over LSU closed their campaign on a night where the offense sputtered, the turnovers piled up, and the Sooners needed every bit of defensive backbone to escape Norman with momentum intact. Yet the bigger twist wasn’t the score; it was what the narrow escape now sets in motion.

Saturday’s win unlocked a postseason advantage most contenders would envy. With the CFP’s first-round games scheduled for December 19 and 20, Oklahoma now enters a rare three-week runway to repair a broken offense before the bracket locks in. A window CFB analyst Brent Rollins believes drastically shifts their playoff ceiling.

“And you think about Oklahoma, I think, cementing themselves as a playof