Overview

• Oklahoma’s marching band said budget constraints kept it from traveling to Philadelphia for the game against Temple.
• Saint Joseph’s University Hawk Band filled in at Lincoln Financial Field, leading “Boomer Sooner,” and the Pride publicly thanked the group on X.
• The Pride said it believes this is the first time stand-ins have played for the band at an OU football game.
• OU confirmed season travel plans that include the full band for Texas and pep bands for South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama.
• The band noted it has 342 members and said taking a smaller group to Philadelphia would have cost more than all other SEC trips combined.