Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables has a long history with the school he now leads as head coach. He began coaching there in 1999 as a co-defensive coordiantor and linebackers coach and held those roles until 2003.

This will be the first time that Heupel and Venables, who spent plenty of time together at Oklahoma, have faced off on opposing sidelines as head coaches

OU coach Brent Venables relayed the story of seeing Josh Heupel for the first time during his weekly news conference. "He was skinny and just frail."

Oklahoma’s first SEC test will challenge their defensive strength against Tennessee’s high-powered offense, led by former Sooner Josh Heupel.

Oklahoma Sooners head coach Brent Venables described the first time he met current Tennessee Vols head coach Josh Heupel. Venables told reporters that he first met Heupel, who led the Sooners to a national championship as a player in 2000,