Eddie Radasovich is the voice of Oklahoma fandom. He covers the Oklahoma Sooners for Soonerscoop.com at Eddie underscore RADO. Eddie Rado, he's like, I'm not going to make him spell my whole last name. That's the way he rolls right there on the X. Welcome in, Eddie. How are you today, my friend? Gentlemen, I'm doing well. I remember leaving Tuscaloosa at Brian Denny Stadium the night of the

OU Alabama game, kind of joking with all the reporters like, all right, we'll see you here in a couple

week. That was going to be the case, but very excited around these parts to host the college

football playoff. And I think that, you know, Oklahoma fans with everything that went into this

season, the magnitude of what the fourth year for Brent Venables was going to be, it's been kind of a magical ride over the month of November going 4-0 and kind of getting their name back into the talk, which, you know, it seemed like that was going to never maybe happen after a couple of losses this year and certainly

the way the first three seasons have gone. Well, you know, after beating Alabama earlier this year,

do you think, though, if you like had truth serum from Brent Venables, do you think he would

rather Alabama had dropped to 10 and Miami's 9? Or do you think with Alabama is offensively

challenged, much like Oklahoma right now,

do you think they would rather play Alabama a second time?

Yeah, that's a great question.

You know, I think that there is some comfort in knowing, you know,

kind of what you have to game plan for.

That was one of the things that he talked about on Sunday when he did Zoom with us

after the college football playoff bracket was announced. He's fared extremely well in quote-unquote rematches,

did it three times at Oklahoma, did it again with Clemson with Notre Dame, ironically enough

in 2020, playing them in the regular season and an overtime game and then rematching with

him in the college football playoff. But he's gone significantly better when you look at just the statistics.

George Stoya wrote an article about that this week and just kind of the drastic disparity

between the first three times or first four times that Brent Venables has played a team and

then the second time that they played them. But, you know, I don't know if there's necessarily any comfort with who they were going to play. It was going to be somebody good. And, you know, at the end of the day, if they don't get better play offensively, I don't know if it really truly matters who they play, because it's been kind of rough over the last month, which is ironic when it coincides with the run that they've been on.

So there is some comfort with Alabama, but certainly it will be kind of interesting to see how these guys,

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