Oklahoma's Tate Sandell was named SEC Special Teams Player of the Year after an incredible 2025 season.

It'll be an All-SEC matchup in the first round when Alabama travels to face Oklahoma in the CFP first round.

The Sooners will play six home games, as well as five true road games and the annual Red River Rivalry clash against Texas at the Cotton Bowl.

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect that Oklahoma was eliminated from the SEC championship following Georgia's win vs. Texas in Week 12. A previous version of this story was published before the Bulldogs-Longhorns game. Oklahoma football ...

The Oklahoma Sooners are readying themselves for the most crucial game of the season, and perhaps the Brent Venables era, when they host the Alabama Crimson Tide next Friday in the first round of the College Football Playoff. After a 10-2 season, which included a 6-2 mark in SEC play, six Sooners were named to the AP All-SEC teams.

Alabama and Oklahoma will face each other in the College Football Playoff just a month after they squared off in Tuscaloosa.

Sooners rookies Courtland Guillory and Tory Blaylock each earned a spot on the Southeastern Conference postseason, but one major Sooner contributor was omitted.

Oklahoma's 11 total first-, second- or third-team honors ranked second in the league, behind only Georgia's 12.

But it also has some good stretches, like the non-conference games that will make them better. Also, the Sooners finally got a wrinkle they wish they had had in their first two seasons in the SEC. This year, they get to play one of the SEC's bottom dwellers.

Two Sooners who were not recognized Tuesday by the league's coaches did find a spot on the media's all-conference squad.