The Oklahoma Sooners are now 5-5 overall on the nightmarish 2024 season. They’re just 1-5 in Southeastern Conference play, which isn’t the mark anyone around the program expected.

Despite going 4-0 in non-conference games, OU has been one of the worst teams in all of the Power Four this year. They have proven that they are far from being ready for the SEC and Saturday’s embarrassing loss against Missouri only served to beat a dead horse.

We’re eleven weeks into this college football season, so we have a pretty good idea of where most teams stand with just three weeks left in the regular season. USA TODAY Sports takes on the weekly challenge of ranking all 134 teams that play at the FBS level, and their placement of Brent Venables team shows how far the once-proud program has fallen under his leadership.

Staff writer Paul Myerberg ranks Oklahoma, once a staple of the top 10, or at least the top 25, at No. 45 heading into week 12. It’s a six-spot drop from this time last week.

It’s an eye-opening position for Sooner Nation to find themselves in, and Myerberg’s ranking might actually be too generous to OU. The Sooners are sandwiched in-between Cincinnati at No. 44 and Arkansas at No. 46, both teams that would likely beat Oklahoma if they played this week.

No offense to the Bearcats or Razorbacks, but that’s not where a program like Oklahoma belongs in the pecking order of college football. It’ll take some soul-searching from everyone involved with the sinking program, from the top all the way to the bottom, if this thing is going to get turned back in the right direction.