Alabama Crimson Tide vs Oklahoma Sooners Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 11/23/24

The Alabama Crimson Tide (8-2) and the Oklahoma Sooners (5-5) will meet for the first time as SEC foes under the lights in Norman on Saturday night. The Tide are riding a 3-game winning streak coming into this game, while Oklahoma has lost 4 straight conference games. The Sooners were idle last week, but there is likely a bad taste in their mouth after giving their Week 11 game away at Missouri. The Sooners led 23-16 with 2 minutes left, but Missouri scored a tying touchdown and then a go-ahead defensive touchdown – both in the last 63 seconds of the game. 

The strength of this Oklahoma team is on the defensive side of the ball, as the Sooners are top 25 in total defense and top 40 in scoring defense this season. Oklahoma’s defense also ranks top 10 nationally in success rate, as well as top 25 in opposing red zone conversion rate. More recently, the Sooners are top 20 in defensive PPA and top 35 in havoc generated while yielding less than 4 points per scoring opportunity outside of garbage time since Week 7. On the other side of the ball, Oklahoma’s offense has left a lot to be desired – so much so that coach Brent Venables relieved Seth Littrell of his offensive coordinator duties about a month ago. While there hasn’t been too much of an improvement offensively under the Oklahoma interim coordinator, Joe Jon Finley and the Sooners have had an extra week to prepare and scheme-up some ideas for the offense this week. With this game being at home and under the lights in Oklahoma, it seems like an advantageous situational spot for the Sooners – who need just 1 more win for bowl eligibility. Meanwhile, Alabama comes into this game off a win over an FCS team with rival Auburn on deck. The Tide probably will win this game outright, but the Sooners should have enough on the defensive end to stay inside the number in a motivated spot on their home turf. 

Alabama vs Oklahoma prediction: Oklahoma Sooners +14 (-110) at the time of publishing. Playable to +13. 

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