We finally received the news we have been waiting for since the Cotton Bowl concluded. The Oklahoma Sooners announced the full schedule for the 2021 college football season. It wasn’t much in terms of anticipation on who they were playing, we knew the who and the where. On Thursday afternoon, the Sooners announced the when.

On Sept. 4 Oklahoma will head to the state of Louisiana to play the Tulane Green Wave, which will be followed by two home games before the start of Big 12 play. In the final tune-up game of the season, Oklahoma will host an old rival the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

In their third-straight home game of the year, the West Virginia Mountaineers come to town to open conference play. These two teams did not meet in 2020 due to positive COVID-19 tests on the Mountaineers’ side. This is a good first test as they had a really good defense last season. In their last four games, the OU offense has scored 50+ points. Does the high power offense prevail or will West Virginia find a way to slow them down?

Sooners Wire provides four early takeaways from the schedule, starting with an old rivalry.