U40: It's a big one. Here comes Michigan. We break it down.

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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This is the one we've all been waiting for. Michigan is headed to town and Brent Venables gets another chance to put Oklahoma back on the national map. We're breaking it all down. Who is starting on the offensive line. What are we hearing on Jaydn Ott's health and "headspace". Why didn't Elijah Thomas play? Is it even that big of a deal that he didn't right now? Josh gives the latest on the recruiting trail after OU lands their first 2026 in-state commitment last evening. And we preview the big recruits coming in for the Michigan game this weekend. It's go time for Michigan. It's football time in Oklahoma! THE FULL RUNDOWN FOLLOWS BELOW: 0:00 - Welcome back to the Unofficial 40! Michigan Week. Big week. Massive week. Gargantuan week. Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Holly Rowe headed to Normandy 14:00 - Massive recruiting weekend ahead; kicked off by commitment of 2026 WR Xavier Okufulueze 22:30 - Door back open for 2026 OT Daniel McMorris 24:00 - Names to know this weekend on Michigan Visitor List 38:00 - OU-Michigan Talk 50:40 - Who starts on the offensive line this weekend? 1:02:00 - WR rotations; Weird Elijah Thomas didn’t play? 1:14:00 - Special teams could play a factor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	News team, assemble!
0:11.0	It's back and bigger than ever.
0:17.0	It's the unofficial 40 from Soonerscoop.com. Now, here's the entire Soon 40 from sooner scoop.com.
0:24.2	Now, here's the entire Soonerscoop crew,
0:28.3	Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and George.
0:32.0	Hello, all right, welcome back.
0:36.9	It's another edition of the Unofficial 40 podcast right here on Soonerscoop.com where the gang is back.
0:40.2	Josh, we missed doing an unofficial 40 with you last weekend during the North Oval
0:44.9	Tailgate.
0:45.8	But we had a lot of people come by, President Joe Harris and Gay Biker stepped in and
0:51.0	filled in admirably for you.
0:53.0	So I had a lot of fun.
0:55.5	That was great.
0:58.3	It's hard for me to commit to do it again after the morning that I've had.
1:03.6	But we had to basically rip apart a truck all by ourselves.
1:08.3	It was a lot of fun.
1:10.3	Got the new studio in, though, Josh.
1:12.1	I can tell you, I looked at it, and I was like, when they sent the pictures, I was like,
1:16.7	man, that's all like $60,000 get you.
1:19.1	You feel a lot differently when you have to take it out piece by piece of a back of a freight truck.
1:24.7	It's a lot of shit.
1:27.4	Anyway, what do you guys want to do first?
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