NORMAN — OU opens the 2016 season against Houston in NRG Stadium. That’s 13th-ranked Houston. After a scrimmage against Louisiana-Monroe, the Sooners host Ohio State in one of the most-anticipated games at Owen Field in decades. That’s fifth-ranked Ohio State. After a bye week, the Sooners play at TCU, which is picked to be OU’s chief competitor for Big 12 supremacy. That’s 14th-ranked TCU. The next week, the Sooners return to the Metroplex for a game on the other end of the Tom Landry Freeway. Texas, in the Cotton Bowl. That’s unranked Texas, but that’s also get-fired-up-for-the-State Fair-Texas, which three straight years in the shadow of Big Tex has punched the Sooners right in the nose. Do the math. That’s four tough games among OU’s first five skirmishes. Four losable games. That’s one of the best ways to measure college football schedules. Losable games. The sport is plagued by unlosable games. Any team stocked with losable games is honorable and fighting well above the norm. And four losable games before Oct. 2 is a brutal schedule that makes for not only a stiff September, but a rugged August. There will be no coasting into the 2016 season for the Sooners.…
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