5 college football teams likely to be next Georgia and end a national title drought

No. 3 Oklahoma (2000)

It’s been a wild offseason for Oklahoma. The Sooners lost head coach Lincoln Riley to USC, then won a bowl game with former head coach Bob Stoops serving as the interim coach.

Brent Venables was formerly the DC with the Sooners and was an integral part of a national championship-winning program at Clemson. The Tigers ended a long national title drought in the 2010s and that’s not necessarily something people saw coming 5-10 years before it happened.

Some might see Oklahoma’s move to the SEC as a negative but I think it will end up being a positive. For one, the Sooners can recruit with the SEC name for the first time and beyond that, if they want to beat SEC teams, it’s better to play against them all the time and not just in bowl games.

People didn’t necessarily think Texas A&M would be a power in the SEC but with its recruiting base and the reach of the SEC, it was a natural fit.

The Sooners may not have hired an offensive guru but Venables has been the DC behind some pretty big wins over teams like Alabama, Ohio State, and others.

Stoops was a defensive-minded head coach and maybe getting back to that sort of head coach will help OU finally get over the hump for the first since 2000.