Oklahoma football Team 131 has submitted its resume and now awaits the decision of the College Football Playoff selection committee to see where and who the Sooners will be playing in the postseason.
That decision will come this Sunday. The one thing we know with great certainty at this point is that Oklahoma will play its next game as part of the College Football Playoff and that game will either take place at the Palace on the Prairie in Norman or at another campus site. Those details will not become clear until Sunday.
Return trip to Tuscaloosa not out of the question for Oklahoma in CFP scenarios
Oklahoma currently occupies the No. 8 spot in the CFP rankings, which is the final spot to host a home game in the opening round of the playoff. If the playoff started today, based on the results of the fifth rankings released, the Sooners would host No. 9 Alabama.
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Because half of the teams that currently make up the top 12 spots in the rankings are involved in conference championship games this weekend, we know that the current rankings will not remain exactly the same. The Sooners have held down the No. 8 seed for the past three weeks. The previous two weeks, Notre Dame was slotted at No. 9, but Alabama and Notre Dame changed places this week as a result of Bama’s Iron Bowl win over Auburn…