U40: Mateer is out. Hawkins is up. Can the Sooners hold on to a CFP spot?

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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John Mateer is out for at least the next few weeks and the guys are here to tell you how it all went down in the offices yesterday as we worked to track down the news and to share the context of what we have heard and what happens moving forward. It's the bye week. How will the Sooners use it to get better with Hawkins at QB? And the running game still needs a lot of work. Is Kent State the beginning or the end of Jaydn Ott as a productive member of the running back room? The SEC also released future schedules yesterday and no one saw Ole Miss landing as a permanent rival for the Sooners. We break down our thoughts on the schedule. We talk about some of the recruiting storylines coming off another good weekend of visitors and how much of a candidate is Ben Arbuckle going to be for head coaching jobs next season? All that and more on this week's episode of the Unofficial 40. #ad Our listeners get Harry's Trial Set for only $8 + a Free Gift at https://www.Harrys.com/SOONERSCOOP #Harryspod THE FULL RUNDOWN FOLLOWS BELOW 0:00 - Welcome back to the Unofficial 40! John Mateer had surgery today. 10:00 - What’s a realistic timetable for Mateer’s return? Could he really be back by Texas? 18:00 - Regardless of QB, OU has to makes some strides in the run game: RB + OL combined need to play better 29:00 - CB Eli Bowen, WR Javonnie Gibson expected to return 39:00 - Is Ben Arbuckle a serious head coach candidate when the carousel begins? 49:00 - SEC Future Schedules 1:03:00 - Recruiting following Auburn weekend 1:30:00 - CFB Roundtable Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	News team, Asimbo!
0:07.0	It's back and bigger than ever.
0:17.0	It's the unofficial 40 from sooner scoop.com.
0:28.3	Now, here's the entire Soonerscoop crew, Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and George.
0:31.6	Oh, all right.
0:32.1	Welcome back.
0:37.3	It is the unofficial 40 right here on Soonerscoop.com podcast where we've got the entire crew back and at it is what a day
0:39.1	yesterday probably one of the biggest sports days in the history of Oklahoma sports because
0:46.0	we thought the Mike Gundy firing was going to be the big news and then all of a sudden
0:51.1	we got wind of the John Mateer and I guess we should clear this up first because, you know, Josh had said this and George
0:58.6	had said this in our little war room we have.
1:01.2	We'd heard some whispers about the John Materer thing, but not that we didn't take it
1:07.2	seriously, but that we'd kind of checked and it didn't seem like it was going
1:11.4	to be something that was serious. Of course, you know, when you injure your hand, your thumb in the
1:16.0	first quarter and you finish off the game and you got better as the game went along, kind of
1:20.8	leads you down the road to say, yeah, I think it's, it was just a minor thing. But then, uh,
1:26.4	yesterday, I'll kind of just lay it out.
1:29.4	Eddie kind of got wind of some stuff that was seemingly more serious.
1:34.2	And then George was checking in things, and I was checking in things.
1:36.8	And eventually we found out, yes, this is a very serious deal.
1:41.5	He's got to need surgery.
1:42.5	Could be out for multiple weeks.
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