2013 Record: 11-2

2014 Las Vegas Season Win Total: 10.5*

2014 Season Win Total Picks NCAA Football: 'Under'

The Sooners are still dining out on their demolition of Alabama in last year's Sugar Bowl. And the feeling around Norman is that the win over the SEC power could be just the thing to revitalize a program that has been good, but just not good enough, over the past few seasons.

Oklahoma will start the season in the Top 5 and will be one of the overwhelming favorites to earn a spot in the new college playoff. Redshirt sophomore Trevor Knight, who lit of Alabama in the bowl win, has a lot of buzz and plenty of talent around him. But what he doesn't have is a lot of experienced help. That's not the case on defense, where nine starters return under Mike Stoops' tutelage.

Besides talent, the schedule is a major reason why the Sooners are on the short list of national title contenders. Their toughest games are all at home or at neutral sites. And the only real trap situation is a tricky game at TCU the week before the Red River Shootout with Texas. If Oklahoma wins both of those games in early October they stand an excellent chance of going undefeated.

Two losses would sink this wager. They've won 57 of 61 home games, so I think the Sooners have just three games they could lose this year (at TCU, vs. Texas and at Texas Tech). I think they win two of those games. I will take a sip of the Kool-Aid and say that OU will go 11-1 in the regular season and sneak 'over' its season win total.

2014 Oklahoma Sooners Schedule

DATE OPPONENT TIME (ET) Location Result

Sat, Aug 30th, 2014 Louisiana Tech 07:00 PM Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memo

Sat, Sep 6th, 2014 at Tulsa 12:00 PM Skelly Field at H.A. Chapman S

Sat, Sep 13th, 2014 Tennessee 08:00 PM Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memo

Sat, Sep 20th, 2014 at West Virginia TBA Mountaineer Field at Milan Pus

Sat, Oct 4th, 2014 at TCU TBA Amon G. Carter Stadium

Sat, Oct 11th, 2014 Texas TBA Cotton Bowl - Dallas, TX

Sat, Oct 18th, 2014 Kansas State TBA Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memo

Sat, Nov 1st, 2014 at Iowa State TBA Jack Trice Stadium

Sat, Nov 8th, 2014 Baylor TBA Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memo

Sat, Nov 15th, 2014 at Texas Tech TBA Jones AT&T Stadium

Sat, Nov 22nd, 2014 Kansas TBA Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memo

Sat, Dec 6th, 2014 Oklahoma State TBA Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memo

All Times EST

*Season Win Total Odds from Raphael Esparza. Esparza was a Las Vegas sportsbook manager for 13 years at some of the largest books on The Strip. He is a proven oddsmaker and this is his projected total.

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