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Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

U40: Breaking down what we learned from SEC Media Days

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

SoonerScoop.com

Sports, Football

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Brace yourselves Sooner fans. There is a member of the Scoop crew who is high on the hopium after SEC Media Days. We take a look back at what we learned from OU's trip to Atlanta for talking season. And we learned that a lot of national media is high on the Sooners heading into 2025. Granted, hearts have been broken around here and we're coming off one of the worst seasons in recent OU history. But are the national people seeing something we're just not allowing ourselves to see? John Mateer was definitely one of the biggest stars in Atlanta. We've catch up on recruiting with Josh and find out what's left the rest of the way. Is OU trying to crack open some opportunities with players already looking elsewhere? It's just a massive edition of the Unofficial 40 with plenty of talk throughout about the upcoming season. THE FULL RUNDOWN FOLLOWS BELOW: 0:00 - Welcome back to the U40! Eddie & George are back from SEC Media Days in Atlanta where the media are buzzing about Oklahoma  29:00 - Brent Venables takeaways from ATL  36:00 - Success this season WOULD lead to a better recruiting class in 2027. Duh. But thems the facts.  54:45 - Daniel Odom shuts down recruitment  1:00:00 - What’s left for the Sooners in 2026?  1:12:00 - Georgie boy is a married man  1:19:00 - CFB roundtable  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

News team, assemble!

0:07.0

It's back and bigger than ever. It's the unofficial 40 from Soonerscoop.

0:20.0

Now, here's the entire Soon 40 from sooner scoop.com.

0:24.2

Now, here's the entire Soonerscoop crew,

0:27.8

Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and... George?

0:29.9

Oh!

0:33.5

All right, welcome back.

0:34.9

It is the Unofficial 40 podcast right here on Soonerscoopop.com where the boys are back from Atlanta. My voice is a little froggy, but get that out of there. We'll be good to go. Josh McQuishan joins us from Houston HK, or Houston HQ. And welcome back, boys. How are we doing? It's Thursday at about a little after one o'clock and the jet the jet set

0:56.3

in life is it gotcha are you feeling good no I mean I think it wasn't too bad it wasn't too bad though

1:01.8

I mean it was flight back was much better than the flight there oh it was great we hit the double

1:06.2

bonus got exit row seats both sides oh nice both both legs of the flight today. So it was, uh, and there was no pretty good. Three and a half hour layover. And being able to like just fly and watch the, uh, British Open all boarding was kind of nice. Well, you come back, uh, even bigger stars than you already were as, uh, you showed up on the Paul Fine Bomb show. I thought you did. Good to see Paul. Fantastic job. This time, you really didn't even talk football at all. Paul just messed around. Yeah, it was great. Three, I think he was just John Mateer. You know, he went through the, I know you guys weren't there, but you know, you guys were there, so you didn't really see how it played out on TV, but he fell in love with Arch Manning early.

1:46.0

Then he met John Mateer, and he didn't know if he wanted to switch allegiances to John Mateer at some point.

1:52.3

There's a lot of fanboying over John Mateer in the SEC.

1:56.0

We can get into that.

1:58.1

Mateer walking up behind Feinbaum yesterday, he was going to just walk up right on the set and he didn't realize he was like on TV. Yeah, right. Pretty funny. Yeah, they screen capped it and put it out, uh, Fine Bomb Show did. Paul was, uh, he was being onry yesterday. And you two were right there with him. Yeah, we were right behind him. It was right after the breakout session. Pat was, Pat Dunn was like, you want to meet Paul? And Mateer's like eyes lit up.

2:24.0

He's like, yeah, absolutely. It's just kind of funny seeing John Maturier, who has this like

2:28.6

big aura around him right now. And everybody's talking about him. I think he was probably one of the

2:33.9

more popular guys yesterday. Probably one of the more popular guys yesterday,

2:35.6

probably one of the more intriguing guys just at the event in general over the four days.

2:41.3

But to kind of see him have an innocent side, if you will.

2:44.6

And I know that we talked about it on the YouTube show last night and like the recap show.

2:49.0

But, you know, and he said it, like everything that's

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