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Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

U40: Venables' depth on defense, CFP rankings and OU gameday atmosphere

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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Sports, Football

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The Unofficial 40 is back for the least tense episode in a while. It's a bye week and we have plenty to talk about with the first CFP rankings released last night. We also get into a discussion about the depth of the OU defense and how uncommon this team is from that perspective. How has Venables done it? And has there ever been a great cornerback at Oklahoma that people didn't complain about at one time or another? Coaches are being fired left and right. We're living in unprecedented times. We're also wondering if Jackson Arnold has a home after struggling at Oklahoma and Auburn? Where could we see him land next? Carey isn't happy that the WR position in college isn't valued higher by the Oklahoma front office. And what can the Sooners do to improve their gameday operations that Eddie and George took away from their trip to Tennessee? That and much more on another edition of the Unofficial 40. THE FULL RUNDOWN FOLLOWS BELOW: 0:00 - Welcome back to the Unofficial 40! Scoop office network talk; Eddie tries to save you the listener the time. Hero.6:00 - Bye week in Norman; CFP initial rankings on Tuesday: OU is No.1226:00 - Where does Jackson Arnold end up?32:00 - Value in developing a high school QB38:00 - More focus should be on WR portal?48:00 - Sooners have, indeed, developed DEPTH on the defensive side of the ball1:02:00 - Recruiting1:11:00 - Quick sidebar: How can OU make its gameday atmosphere comparable to Neyland Stadium? We have some thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

News team, Asimbo!

0:12.0

It's back and bigger than ever.

0:17.0

It's the unofficial 40 from Soonerscoop.com.

0:20.0

Now, here's the entire Soonerscoop crew, Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and George?

0:30.0

Oh, right, welcome back, it is.

0:33.3

And I'm Chan, another edition of the Unificial 40 podcast.

0:37.7

With the regular crew is here.

0:39.9

Josh McQuistin joining us from Houston HQ.

0:42.7

I can't speak today.

0:43.8

Eddie Ranasovich alongside as well as George Stoya.

0:48.4

And I've got to be honest, I've been a little jealous this week.

0:51.4

You guys have got to talk about the big win a whole lot, and I've had the escorts.

0:56.8

I wasn't going to, like, make my own pot up or anything, but yeah, I'm excited to sit down

1:03.1

and talk about this, bye week, and got some practice coming up tonight, some practice availability.

1:07.7

So a full day here at the Scoop offices. And we welcome in Josh McQuistion,

1:12.0

who has done his duties and recruiting report, the game day rewind so far this week on YouTube.

1:18.5

Welcome to the program. Josh, how are we today?

1:21.8

Guys doing well. You know, I've kind of been edgy the last few days, and I think I've figured

1:26.2

out why I am slowly coming down off my seven pounds of candy edgy the last few days and I think I've figured out why I am slowly coming down

1:28.6

off my seven pounds of candy eating from the Halloween festivity so I am we were going to say maybe

1:34.3

heroin but you know candies understand well you know we would have seen track marks there was a time for

1:40.6

that Eddie isn't Eddie's very good at identifying the heroin users.

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