Berry Tramel: Oklahoma Football Hype Warranted? SEC Media Days

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

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🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Berry Tramel of The Tulsa World joins That SEC Podcast from the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta during 2025 SEC Media Days Oklahoma better equipped for the SEC in Year 2? (0:30), what is missing for Oklahoma? (2:25), confidence in Brent Venables as a head coach? (4:45), Jackson Arnold’s return to Norman (7:45), Oklahoma even in a position to buy Venables buyout? (13:30), which SEC teams should OU play annually? (15:45), Oklahoma hype warranted? (18:00), should the Playoff be expanded? (21:30), return of Bedlam Rivalry? (25:45), Barry’s BOLDEST TAKE for 2025 (32:30) Advertising inquiries: thatsecpodcast@gmail.com Interested in helping us grow the channel? Become an Official Cousin by signing up for a membership to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aQL-yFS2ZoSkUBeMfYesA/join We have t-shirts for sale! Check out our merchandise store featuring shirts, hoodies, stickers, coffee mugs, pillows, phone cases and more: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/thatsecpodcast?ref_id=19055 All show music comes via Nashville band Crimson Calamity; check out their work by clicking the link below: https://open.spotify.com/artist/29HGeJEcYHBJlyt4xIcLBw?si=GJoEOr0YSoeqWkrjhCc0Ug

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0:00.0	All right, this is becoming a SEC Media Day tradition.
0:04.3	Yeah, that's right.
0:05.1	Tulsa World, how's it going?
0:06.6	Great, two years in a row.
0:08.1	That's pretty cool.
0:09.8	And, you know, the million-dollar question last media days, we asked you in every Oklahoma coverage,
0:17.3	are the Sooners ready for the SEC?
0:20.0	And clearly they were not. Yeah, you know what? They weren't ready for the SEC, and clearly they were not.
0:22.0	Yeah, you know what?
0:23.0	They weren't ready for the Big 12, I don't think.
0:25.2	With that offense they had last year, they weren't ready for anything.
0:29.9	So, you know, they went six and seven in 22.
0:35.0	So there's cracks in the foundation that they got a fix.
0:38.6	Had a good year in 23, you know, getting ready to go into the SEC.
0:42.8	But, yeah, I think they acquitted themselves great defensively.
0:46.9	Anytime we talked for four years about, are they ready for the SEC?
0:50.1	What everybody meant?
0:51.4	What he mean was, are they ready defensively?
0:53.9	And they answered that.
0:54.9	They got that one figured out.
0:56.2	It was the offense that, you know, just cratered.
0:58.9	So I tend to think that offense is more easily fixed than defense.
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