{"id":251942,"date":"2025-10-26T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251942\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:02:08","slug":"kickoff-time-tv-announced-for-tennessee-football-vs-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251942\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickoff time, TV announced for Tennessee Football vs. Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/South Carolina won 26-7 at South Carolina Saturday night\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tennessee Football\u2019s<\/a> game against Oklahoma on Saturday at Neyland Stadium will be a 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time start on ABC. <\/p>\n<p>The SEC used its six-day window and finalized the start time Saturday night, after previously leaving 3:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. as options.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma (6-2, 2-2 SEC) is coming off a 34-26 loss to No. 8 Ole Miss while No. 17 Tennessee (5-2, 3-2) won 56-34 at Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma has lost two of three since 5-0 start<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma won 26-7 at South Carolina last week, bouncing back from the 23-6 loss against Texas in the Red River Rivalry in Dallas two weeks ago.\u00a0The Sooners started the season with five straight wins.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/john-mateer-63401\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Mateer<\/a> completed 17 of 31 passes for 223 yards and a touchdown in the loss to Ole Miss. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/xavier-robinson-163117\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Robinson<\/a> ran nine times for 109 yards and two touchdowns and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/isaiah-sategna-49742\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Sategna III<\/a> had six catches for 131 yards and a touchdown in the loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sooners trailed 22-10 at halftime and rallied to take 26-25 lead in the second half, before the Rebels answered with 10 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee plays three of four games at home in November. The second bye week of the season on October 8 follows the Oklahoma game. New Mexico State is homecoming opponent on November 15. The Vols go to Florida on November 22 and closes the regular-season schedule against Vanderbilt at Neyland Stadium on November 29.<\/p>\n<p>The New Mexico State game is a 4:15 p.m. ET start on SEC Network, the Florida game is another Flex game and Vanderbilt is in the afternoon window, meaning kickoff will be between 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee and Oklahoma have played only five times<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee is 3-2 all time against Oklahoma, dating back to 1939.<\/p>\n<p>The Vols won 25-15 at Oklahoma last season in the first game the Sooners played as an SEC team.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee beat Oklahoma 17-0 on New Year\u2019s Day 1939 in the Orange Bowl. The Sooners won 26-24 in the 1968 Orange Bowl and beat the Vols 34-10 in Norman in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-24 Oklahoma win in overtime in 2015 is the only game the Sooners have played at Neyland Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee jumped out to a 17-0 lead by the 12:14 mark of the second quarter, but Oklahoma quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/baker-mayfield-9252\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baker Mayfield<\/a> rallied his team and tied the game on a touchdown pass with 40 seconds left. The Sooners won in the second overtime on an 18-yard pass to Sterling Shepard.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Football\u2019s game against Oklahoma on Saturday at Neyland Stadium will be a 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,4504,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-251942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}