U40: The portal is swallowing up a lot of OU players. Any concerns?

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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It's been a fast and furious day of Oklahoma football players entering the transfer portal. As we were recording the podcast today, we got the news that Mike Hawkins was entering the portal. And even more came after that. George has updates on potential coaching changes. Josh is heading to Orlando for the Under Armour All-American week where he's anxious to catch up with Zane Rowe and other major OU projects. Rowe, the former OU commit, has long been on our radar since we first saw him as a freshman taking on Michael Fasusi in camps. And we have so many other questions about the QB room and the depth there with Hawkins' departure. Surely this means Mateer is coming back right? And some aren't in agreement about Davon Jordan and how much that hurts the Sooners heading into next season. A lot to talk about and a lot of real time processing during this edition of the Unofficial 40 THE FULL RUNDOWN FOLLOWS BELOW: 0:00 - Welcome back to the Unofficial 40! Happy New Year edition. OT Luke Baklenko, CB Devon Jordan enter the transfer portal 16:00 - Portal madness/CFP quarterfinals is set to begin 23:00 - How about that Alamo Bowl? Kind of fun. Checking in on our good friend Lincoln Riley 27:30 - Josh is heading to the Under Armour game in Orlando 36:00 - What’s up with 2027 DE Zane Rowe and Oklahoma? 42:00 - Josh is excited to checkout 2027 Dallas South Oak Cliff OL Brian Swanson 44:13: - OU making a move on 2027 CB Montre Jackson? 52:00 - Breaking: OU QB Michael Hawkins in the Portal 1:02:00 - What does OU do at Quarterback? 1:13:00 - Folks in the building at the Switzer Center feel incredibly positive about the future in Norman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	Now, here's the entire
0:51.1	Soonerscoop crew.
0:52.9	Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and George?
0:58.6	Oh, right. Welcome back. It is the unofficial 40 podcast right here from Soonerscoop.com.
1:05.7	Podcast on a beautiful historic campus corner that is basically empty right now because everybody is gone.
1:13.7	Happy holidays, happy New Year to all of you out there.
1:17.7	Happy New Year to the crew inside here, including Josh McQuistion, who is going to go to my biggest nightmare on Earth.
1:23.8	Orlando, Florida here shortly today.
1:26.1	Welcome in, Josh.
1:31.5	Yeah, Orlando on New Year's Eve,
1:36.8	you know, kind of a mid-afternoon, evening flight. Guys, it feels like the start of either a horror movie or an action movie, and I'm really hoping for an action movie, because I don't do horror.
1:41.0	So this is, I don't know what's going to happen here. What did they call the area with the stupid upside down restaurant, with all the restaurants on that big row right there? Like million row or something like that? I thought, I thought it was like some kind of like kind of big profound name. That's where we stayed for the Cheez-A-Bull. I forget the, though. I was talking about that a couple days ago.
2:08.5	Yeah, I, I, I, the, when OU got their ass kicked by Clemson in 2014, yeah, that would in 2014, I was sick as a dog and I went to that CVS store on the corner and it was like
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