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Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

Merry Christmas and welcome to Oklahoma football Portal Season!

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

SoonerScoop.com

Sports, Football

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The last Unofficial 40 before Christmas. So Merry Christmas everybody! It's almost that other magical time of the year, Portal Season. The guys get together and talk about exactly what is happening inside the Switzer Center as players are starting to announce their intentions to the enter the portal which opens Jan. 2. Where are the Sooners looking to fill their biggest needs? What coaches will be around to coach these guys in the spring? We've also got some John Mateer talk for you as we're still hashing over his role in this offense and as the leader of the OU offense. The linebacker position is one of those positions we're all keeping a close eye on. And the front office is working hard to bring back some players you might have just expected to either move on or enter the NFL draft. Eddie brings in a little hoops love and Josh is getting ready for a trip to a magical place for a high school All-American game. Everyone be safe and hopefully you'll get to spend quality time with your loved ones. And once again, Merry Christmas from the entire Unofficial 40 and SoonerScoop crew! THE FULL RUNDOWN FOLLOWS BELOW: 0:00 - Welcome back to the Unofficial 40! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and the Portal SZN cometh  38:00 - John Mateer … what happens?  51:00 - Ben Arbuckle had a good gameplan vs. Alabama 55:00 - TE and LB are probably big Portal needs 1:04:00 - OU fans will want to watch HS All-American games Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

News team, assemble!

0:13.0

It's back and bigger than ever.

0:17.0

It's the unofficial 40 from Soonerscoop.com. Now, here's the entire Soonerscoop crew, Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and George.

0:30.1

Oh, right, welcome back.

0:33.3

It is another edition of the Unofficial 40 podcast where the crew is here.

0:39.0

Merry Christmas, everyone.

0:41.0

If you're listening to this on Christmas Day or if you're in the car, you know,

0:46.2

taking the kids somewhere.

0:47.9

Kids, Santa is real.

0:50.5

And everybody on the pod, we realize this, right?

0:52.5

Santa's real.

0:54.0

I think by you saying that makes me question it.

0:56.8

No.

0:57.6

It goes without saying.

0:58.8

There's lots of skeptics in the world.

1:00.6

There are a lot of skeptics in the world.

1:02.4

And I'm here kids that are listening in their parents' car, I want you to know Santa is real.

1:07.2

Don't let other kids at your school tell you otherwise.

1:12.1

And the elf on the shelf, I don't know about that. When Lainey comes home with questions, I just scream at her until she

1:17.9

acknowledges that Santa is real. That's how we parent in this house. Do the girls? Are they

1:22.4

skeptical at all? The older one is aware of any possible situations out there.

1:30.5

The younger one is not.

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