OU Hires Deland McCullough & OU Football Snubbed from Josh Pate's Top 12 College Football Programs

The Oklahoma Breakdown with Ikard and Lehman

Gabe Ikard and Teddy Lehman

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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#1 OU vs. #2 LSU women's gymnastics tickets: ⁠https://www.gofevo.com/event/breakdown Gabe Ikard and Teddy Lehman discuss OU football hiring Deland McCullough to be the running backs coach on Brent Venables' coaching staff. McCullough replaces DeMarco Murray who left to be the Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach. They also discuss Josh Pate's Top 12 programs in college football rankings that did not include the Oklahoma Sooners. In "Football Guys Talkin' Basketball," thy break down a big week for OU women's basketball and the keys to the rest of the regular season for the OKC Thunder. Ikard and Lehman give their "Winners & Losers of the Weekend": Mike Elko said college football needs a commissioner, OU baseball is off to a fantastic 4-0 start to the season, Mick Cronin embarrassed himself and UCLA by ejecting his own player from a game, Tiger Woods said he isn't ruling out playing in The Masters in 2026 & United States men's pursuit speed skating got stomped by Italy and won silver at the Winter Olympics in Milan. 2:01 OU hires Deland McCullough 16:20 Josh Pate's top 12 college football program rankings 37:27 Football Guys Talkin' Basketball 51:45 Winners & Losers: Mike Elko, OU baseball, Mick Cronin, Tiger Woods & U.S. men's pursuit speed skating Official site: https://okbreakdown.com/episodes/ou-football-hires-deland-mccullough-sooners-snubbed-from-josh-pates-top-12-cfb-program-rankings YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fTfApZJS7w Part of “The Oklahoma Breakdown with Ikard and Lehman” podcast series. Follow The Oklahoma Breakdown on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OklahomaBreakdown/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ok_breakdown/ X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OK_Breakdown TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ok_breakdown Connect with Gabe Ikard: https://www.instagram.com/gabeikard/ https://twitter.com/GabeIkard Connect with Teddy Lehman: https://twitter.com/tedlehman11 #collegefootball #oufootball #secfootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	on this episode of the Oklahoma breakdown with Hacker and Lehman presented by Riverwind casino. OU's got its new running backs coach, but the Sooners didn't make Josh Pate's top 12 college football programs list. We talk about it. In an FGTB, we talk some Sooners, Hoops, and Thunder, and then of course we give you our winners and losers of the week. Please download it and subscribe to the podcast. Rate it five stars and write us a good review.
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0:27.3	Also, please check out our website, OKBakedown.com.
0:30.4	All right, our man, Michael Hosti, we'll kick this thing off.
0:33.5	It's time for the Oklahoma Breakdown.
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