2016 Oklahoma Sooners football team

2016 Oklahoma Sooners football
Conference	Big 12 Conference
2016 record	0–0 (0–0 Big 12)
Head coach	Bob Stoops (18th year)
Offensive coordinator	Lincoln Riley (2nd year)
Offensive scheme	Air Raid
Defensive coordinator	Mike Stoops (5th year of second stint, 10th overall year)
Base defense	3-4
Captain	TBA
Home stadium	Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 82,112)

2016 Big 12 football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Baylor		0	–	0					0	–	0
Iowa State		0	–	0					0	–	0
Kansas		0	–	0					0	–	0
Kansas State		0	–	0					0	–	0
Oklahoma		0	–	0					0	–	0
Oklahoma State		0	–	0					0	–	0
TCU		0	–	0					0	–	0
Texas		0	–	0					0	–	0
Texas Tech		0	–	0					0	–	0
West Virginia		0	–	0					0	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 Oklahoma Sooners football team will represent the University of Oklahoma in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 122nd season of Sooner football. The team will be led by two-time Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award winner, Bob Stoops, in his 18th season as head coach. They will play their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They are a charter member of the Big 12 Conference.

Previous season and offseason

The 2015 Oklahoma Sooners football team finished the regular season with an 11–1 record winning their ninth Big 12 Championship. Their only regular season loss was against Texas in the Red River Showdown. Oklahoma became bowl eligible after defeating Texas Tech on October 24, 2015. Oklahoma was selected as the fourth seed to play in the 2015 College Football playoff against first seed Clemson in the Orange Bowl, which ended up to be a 17–37 loss. Oklahoma finished the season 11–2.

Personnel

Coaching Staff

Name	Position	Alma mater	Joined Staff
Bob Stoops	Head Coach	Iowa (1983)	1999
Mike Stoops	Defensive Coordinator / Outside Linebackers / Associate Head Coach	Iowa (1986)	2012
Bill Bedenbaugh	Offensive Line Coach	Iowa Wesleyan (1995)	2013
Calvin Thibodeaux	Defensive Line Coach	Oklahoma (2006)	2016
Jay Boulware	Special Team Coordinator / Running Backs Coach / Fullbacks Coach	Texas (1996)	2013
Kerry Cooks	Defensive Backs Coach	Iowa (1993)	2015
Cale Gundy	Inside Wide Receivers Coach / Assistant Head Coach / Director of Recruiting	Oklahoma (1994)	1999
Tim Kish	Inside Linebackers Coach	Otterbein (1976)	2012
Lincoln Riley	Offensive Coordinator / Quarterbacks Coach	Texas Tech (2006)	2015
Dennis Simmons	Outside Wide Receivers Coach	BYU (1997)	2015
Jerry Schmidt	Director of Sports Enhancement	Nebraska (1986)	1999
Matt McMillen	Assistant A.D. Football Operations	Kansas State (1985)	1999
Merv Johnson	Director of Operations	Missouri (1953)	1979

Roster

2016 Oklahoma Sooners Football
Quarterback  1 Kyler Murray - Sophomore (5'10, 185)  3 Connor McGinnis - Freshman (6'4, 194)  6 Baker Mayfield - Senior (6'1, 212) 10 Austin Kendall - Freshman (6'1, 206) 14 Reece Clark - Freshman (6'4, 203) Tailback 20 Najee Bissoon - Junior (5'5, 158) 20 Tion Grant - Sophomore (5'1, 171) 24 Rodney Anderson - Freshman (6'0, 211) 25 Joe Mixon - Sophomore (6'1, 226) 28 Alex Ross - Senior (6'1, 227) 32 Samaje Perine - Junior (5'10, 234) 33 Anthony Sheppard - Sophomore (5'11, 211) 34 Daniel Brooks - Senior (5'8, 184) Abdul Adams - Freshman Wide Receiver  1 Jarvis Baxter - Senior (5'11, 165)  2 John Humphrey - Freshman (5'11, 169)  5 Geno Lewis - Senior (6'1, 201) 11 Dede Westbrook - Senior (6'0, 170) 13 A.D. Miller - Sophomore (6'3, 189) 15 Jeffery Mead - Junior (6'5, 187) 16 Michiah Quick - Junior (5'11, 183) 17 Jordan Smallwood - Junior (6'2, 217) 18 Dahu Green - Sophomore (6'4, 201) 19 Dallis Todd - Sophomore (6'3, 190) 80 Sam Iheke - Freshman (6'4, 201) 81 Mark Andrews - Sophomore (6'5, 244) 82 Ezel McIntee - Sophomore (5'10, 203) 83 Nick Basquine - Sophomore (5'11, 192) 84 Grant Bothun - Senior (5'11, 193) 86 Lee Morris - Freshman (6'2, 207) 87 Parker Fentriss - Freshman (6'2, 196) 88 Eric DeLay - Senior (6'2, 209) 89 Connor Knight - Senior (6'4, 248) Mykel Jones - Freshman Adrian Hardy - Freshman Zach Farrar - Freshman Parnell Motley - Freshman		Fullback 36 Dimitri Flowers - Junior (6'2, 252) 44 Jaxon Uhles - Junior (5'11, 246) 45 Carson Meier - Sophomore (6'5, 245) 85 Dalton Wood - Freshman (6'3, 252) Offensive Lineman 52 Jamal Danley - OL - Senior (6'3, 323) 55 Logan Roberson - OL - Freshman (6'3, 341) 56 Preston Morgan - OL - Junior (6'2, 310) 58 Erick Wren - OL - Senior (6'2, 317) 63 Alex Dalton - C - Sophomore (6'3, 290) 64 Dylan Hartsook - OG - Senior (6'6, 330) 66 Riley Nolan - OG - Senior (6'0, 289) 67 Ashton Julious - OL - Junior (6'5, 354) 68 Jonathan Alvarez - OG - Junior (6'3, 315) 70 Christian Daimler - OT - Junior (6'7, 311) 71 Bobby Evans - OL - Freshman (6'4, 299) 72 Ben Powers - OL - Sophomore (6'4, 320) 73 Quinn Mittermeier - OL - Sophomore (6'5, 265) 74 Cody Ford - OL - Freshman (6'3, 317) 75 Dru Samia - OT - Sophomore (6'4, 274) 76 Sam Grant - OT - Senior (6'6, 275) 78 Orlando Brown - OT - Junior (6'8, 357) 79 Dwayne Orso-Bacchus - OL - Sophomore (6'5, 301) Erik Swenson - OT - Freshman Johncarlo Valentin - OG - Freshman Defensive Line 46 Gabriel Campbell - DE - Freshman (6'6, 257) 50 Courtney Garnett - DT - Sophomore (6'1, 283) 55 Kenneth Mann - DE - Freshman (6'3, 255) 57 Du'Vonta Lampkin - DT - Freshman (6'4, 332) 59 Kane Snowden - DT - Junior (5'11, 240) 87 D.J. Ward - DE - Junior (6'2, 250) 90 Neville Gallimore - DT - Freshman (6'3, 320) 92 Matthew Romar - DT - Junior (6'0, 298) 93 Jordan Wade - DT - Senior (6'3, 311) 94 Matt Dimon - DE - Senior (6'2, 265) 95 Austin Roberts - DL - Senior (6'6, 279) 97 Charles Walker - DL - Junior (6'2, 299) 98 Marquise Overton - DT - Sophomore (6'1, 292) Mark Jackson Jr. - DE - Freshman Amani Bledsoe - DE - Freshman Jon-Michael Terry - DE - Freshman		Linebacker  9 Tay Evans - Sophomore (6'2, 239) 18 Curtis Bolton - Sophomore (6'0, 232) 22 Ricky DeBerry - Freshman (6'2, 250) 26 Jordan Evans]- Senior (6'2, 233) 31 Ogbonnia Okoronkwo - Junior (6'2, 238) 42 Ruben Hunter - Junior (6'2, 222) 50 Arthur McGinnis - Freshman (6'1, 248) 51 Cade Newhouse-Parker - Sophomore (6'0, 223) 96 Dalton Rodriguez - Junior (6'6, 232) Caleb Kelly - Freshman Emmanuel Beal - Junior Kapri Doucet - Junior Defensive Backs  2 P.J. Mbanasor - CB - Sophomore (6'1, 189)  4 Hatari Byrd - S - Senior (6'1, 207)  5 Antoine Stephens - CB - Freshman (6'1, 183)  6 Stanvon Taylor - CB - Senior (5'11, 167)  7 Jordan Thomas - CB - Junior (6'0, 187)  8 Kahlil Haughton - S - Sophomore (6'1, 195) 10 Steven Parker - S - Junior (6'1, 208) 12 William Johnson - DB - Junior (6'0, 185) 13 Ahmad Thomas - S - Senior (6'0, 199) 20 Chanse Sylvie - DB - Freshman (5'11, 179) 21 Will Sunderland - S - Sophomore (6'2, 197) 27 Dakota Austin - CB - Senior (5'10, 159) 29 Prentice McKinney - S - Sophomore (6'1, 181) 30 Ernest Gardner - DB - Junior (6'0, 172) 35 Cole Swayze - DB - Senior (6'2, 218) 37 Anuar Hage - DB - Sophomore (5'10, 166) 39 Darius Owens - CB - Senior (5'10, 190) 41 Jesse Walker - S - Junior (6'0, 199) Jordan Parker - CB - Freshman Placekicker 36 Kyle Pfau - Sophomore (5'10, 189) 43 Austin Seibert - Sophomore (5'10, 214) 47 Reece Morrison - Freshman (6'0, 183) Punter 38 Jack Steed - Senior (6'4, 215) Long Snappers 42 Wesley Horky - Junior (6'1, 217) 57 Jack Aubel - Sophomore (6'3, 231)

Schedule

Oklahoma announced their 2016 football schedule on November 24, 2015. The 2016 schedule consists of 6 home games, 4 away games and 2 neutral-site games in the regular season. The Sooners will host two non-conference games against Louisiana–Monroe and Ohio State and travel to Houston, Texas to play Houston in NRG Stadium, a non-conference game at a neutral site. Oklahoma will host Kansas State, Kansas, Baylor and Oklahoma State, and travel to TCU, Texas Tech, Iowa State and West Virginia in regular conference play. Oklahoma will play the Texas Longhorns in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl stadium on October 8 for the Red River Showdown, the 111th game played of the series.^[1]

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result
September 3	TBA	vs. Houston*		NRG Stadium • Houston, TX (Texas Kickoff)
September 10	TBA	Louisiana–Monroe*		Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK
September 17	TBA	Ohio State*		Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK
October 1	TBA	at TCU		Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX
October 8	TBA	vs. Texas		Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Red River Showdown)
October 15	TBA	Kansas State		Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK
October 22	TBA	at Texas Tech		Jones AT&T Stadium • Lubbock, TX
October 29	TBA	Kansas		Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK
November 3	TBA	at Iowa State		Jack Trice Stadium • Ames, IA
November 12	TBA	Baylor		Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK
November 19	TBA	at West Virginia		Mountaineer Field • Morgantown, WV
December 3	TBA	Oklahoma State		Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, OK
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time[1].

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.

	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Final
AP
Coaches'
CFP	Not released															Not released

References

1. "2016 Oklahoma Sooners Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved January 6, 2016.