Oklahoma's Brent Venables named National Coach of the Week
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It’s safe to say Oklahoma football coach Brent Venables is no longer on the hot seat.
The Sooners‘ fourth-year head man, fresh off beating Alabama, was, ironically, named Paul “Bear” Bryant National Coach of the Week on Tuesday. Bryant became most famous for his coaching of the Crimson Tide.
Oklahoma heads into the final two games of the regular season sitting pretty. The Sooners entered the projected bracket of the College Football Playoff on Tuesday night, sitting with the No. 8 seed in the latest rankings. Wins over Missouri on Saturday and LSU on Nov. 29 would almost certainly clinch OU’s spot. Both games will be played in Norman.
It’s quite the turnaround for Venables, who entered the season on various hot-seat lists after going 6-7 in two of his previous three seasons. Oklahoma has picked up four wins against teams ranked in the AP Poll: Michigan, Auburn, Tennessee, and Alabama.
Venables took over at OU in December 2021 after Lincoln Riley took the head coaching job at Southern California. Venables previously spent the 1999-2011 seasons with the Sooners as co-defensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. He left in 2012 to join the staff at Clemson, where he won two national championships as the Tigers’ defensive coordinator.
Saturday’s game against Missouri is set for an 11 a.m. CT kick on ABC.
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