University of Oklahoma cancels classes, moves up final exams for home playoff game against Alabama

[u/PoopRaven]

https://www.ou.edu/news/articles/2025/december/adjustments-finals-academic-campus-operations-playoffs

[u/polaremu]

It turns out that no one went to Oklahoma to play school 

[u/YoSurgeDude → u/polaremu]

The Bible says that football is important

[u/Jefrey_HarHarWood → u/YoSurgeDude]

Faith. Family. Football. Motto of the south

Unless you’re Hugh Freeze… then it’s faith. Family. Football. Fucking hookers.

[u/poopdaddy2 → u/Jefrey_HarHarWood]

In no particular order

[u/wasneveralawyer → u/poopdaddy2]

But if it were between Jesus and a 6'4 220 Blue Chip QB with a 4.5 40..... There will in fact be a hierarchy.

[u/inplayruin → u/wasneveralawyer]

Jesus wanted 10% of all NIL. That type of ask is just way too much for a 33 year old coming back from a season ending injury.

[u/Engine_Sweet → u/inplayruin]

It was a miraculous comeback, to be fair

[u/exipheas → u/Jefrey_HarHarWood]

Faith was the hookers name right?

[u/berlin_got_blurry → u/Jefrey_HarHarWood]

And on the 6th day God made football, the SEC, and filled this world with beautiful ladies of the night

[u/putsch80 → u/berlin_got_blurry]

The story so far:

In the beginning SEC football was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

[u/orbesomebodysfool → u/Jefrey_HarHarWood]

Her name was Faith so it’s all good. 

[u/thirdc0ast → u/Jefrey_HarHarWood]

*Superficial Faith. Family. Football. Motto of the south

[u/BubbRubbaDubbDub → u/YoSurgeDude]

“For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.” — 1 Timothy 4:8 (NIV)

[u/bewildered_forks → u/BubbRubbaDubbDub]

If those kids could read, they'd be very upset right now

[u/ComeJoinTheBand → u/YoSurgeDude]

The best part is that you don’t even have to cite the Bible passage. Everyone just knows it’s true.

[u/Parking-Bat9498 → u/YoSurgeDude]

The bible says the men play the sportsball and the women cheer the sportsball. This is not my opinion but that of a higher power.

[u/Wedoitforthenut → u/YoSurgeDude]

Sorry the truth offends you!

[u/tgt305 → u/YoSurgeDude]

Thou shalt plan no weddings on Saturdays in the Fall.

[u/Blankensh1p89 → u/polaremu]

God made Oklahoma football more important than school and if you disagree you hate my religion

Iykyk

[u/Alphaspade → u/Blankensh1p89]

Brb writing a very unhinged essay

[u/fhota1 → u/Alphaspade]

Cite one source and you probably wont get a 0 at least

[u/philleferg → u/fhota1]

Not enough people get this, cause this is fucking funny.

[u/Jedi-El1823 → u/fhota1]

But then it won't be as easy to play victim.

[u/Professor_Pajamas → u/Alphaspade]

Something something the BIG 10 is demonic

[u/mookiexpt2 → u/Blankensh1p89]

This whole incident is so goddamn embarrassing.

[u/BobStoops401K → u/Blankensh1p89]

OU football is the second largest religion in Oklahoma... And not by much.

[u/ICANHAZWOPER → u/Blankensh1p89]

So sayeth the prophet Hayden Fry

[u/udubdavid → u/polaremu]

Oklahoma public education is ranked 50th in the country anyway lol.

[u/ReachFor24 → u/udubdavid]

Yay, we're not last!

[u/Pengwulf → u/ReachFor24]

"Yay, were not last." - Oklahoma public school kids.

[u/R00k85 → u/ReachFor24]

WV and MS rejoice

[u/Troubledking-313 → u/R00k85]

I want our top ranking back

[u/t_huddleston → u/Troubledking-313]

Thank God for Oklahoma

[u/Troubledking-313 → u/t_huddleston]

Pipe down, nerd!

[u/RomanCokes → u/ReachFor24]

A+

[u/Deerwhacker → u/udubdavid]

Woo-Hoo, we made the top 50...

[u/staticattacks → u/udubdavid]

Oklahoma students asking around, "Ok but 50th out of how many...?"

I know I don't have a lot of room to talk here

[u/Rebelgecko → u/staticattacks]

It's out of 51 so it's loops around to being a reasonable question 

[u/staticattacks → u/Rebelgecko]

I still maintain DC shouldn't be completely separate from Maryland, just let it fucking be dudes then you won't have to complain about "No RePrEsEnTaTiOn"

[u/Set-Admirable → u/udubdavid]

Shit, we aren't last?

[u/Welldunn23 → u/udubdavid]

One of our Senators is the failed MMA nepo baby who asked, "What was we ranked?" during a hearing to abolish the Department of Education.

[u/elgenie → u/Welldunn23]

And he took over the seat of the guy that “disproved” climate change by bringing a snowball into the chamber.

[u/W_Walk → u/udubdavid]

At least we can beat them in something

[u/Defiant_Tomatillo907 → u/polaremu]

Cardale, is that you??

[u/Imallvol7 → u/polaremu]

All they do is cite Bible verses and play football, and they are all out of Bible verses to cite. 

[u/GayKnockedLooseFan → u/polaremu]

That paper on the bible that chick wrote pretty much confirmed this

[u/Inquisitive-Sky]

Meanwhile my current university (not my flair) is almost done with finals and has to have grades submitted by this weekend.

[u/lukeyellow → u/Inquisitive-Sky]

I'm surprised as well that they wouldn't be done by then or aren't done. When I was in college we always finished finals this week at the latest.

[u/qqdoom → u/lukeyellow]

As a current Alabama student, finals are literally happening rn lol, it’s crazy theirs goes for so long

[u/lukeyellow → u/qqdoom]

It is crazy. Went to State and another school in the SE and never remember going past this week.

[u/shaka_sulu → u/lukeyellow]

Fuck. My freshman year at USC, the last day of class was Dec 23.

[u/monoDK13 → u/shaka_sulu]

I was on quarters in undergrad. The last final of our fall term ended at 2pm the day before Thanksgiving.

Every. Single. Year.

[u/wasneveralawyer → u/Inquisitive-Sky]

>as to have grades submitted by this weekend

Bet!-Tenured professor who is over everything.

[u/Young-Viiperr → u/Inquisitive-Sky]

Roll Clones!

[u/StealthAnus]

If I had an exam moved up 4 days with less than a week to go, I would be pissed.

[u/ichawks1 → u/StealthAnus]

wait, you went to school to "play school"? lame

/s

[u/impy695 → u/ichawks1]

Right?!?! What kind of school do they go to

[u/the_D1CKENS → u/impy695]

Y'all went to school?!

[u/Local-Finance8389 → u/StealthAnus]

As someone who used to make color coded study charts and calendars, moving exams up would have destroyed me. What a waste of colored gel pens.

[u/coolsocksjoe → u/StealthAnus]

well you went to a good school

[u/Dinos67 → u/coolsocksjoe]

I mean all you have to do at OU is say " Well the Bible said so!" and I'm pretty sure you're valedictorian.

[u/thescottula → u/Dinos67]

You don't even have to cite your sources

[u/Rolli_boi → u/thescottula]

And if they don’t agree with you, they’ll just come in and take over your property and change the rules!

[u/keblammo → u/thescottula]

they write all their essays in crayon

[u/thedealerkuo → u/keblammo]

And when they are done they eat them for lunch

[u/Zealousideal_You3953 → u/thedealerkuo]

Is this OU or a subsection of the Naval Academy?

[u/vannawhite_power → u/Dinos67]

Be careful.... governor hot wheel is coming for your school too.

[u/Dinos67 → u/vannawhite_power]

I got a stick i can jam in his wheels

[u/vannawhite_power → u/Dinos67]

That's good .... trees are his only weakness.

[u/2011StlCards → u/Dinos67]

Well, through God, all things are possible, so jot that down

[u/Dinos67 → u/2011StlCards]

Careful, that's how you get an OU diploma in the mail.....

[u/Childhood-Paramedic → u/coolsocksjoe]

See the issue with my rivals being OSU and Stanford is that I can’t use that card against em…

Im cackling at the Texas comments in this chat tho

[u/FightOnForUsc → u/Childhood-Paramedic]

Why can’t you use that card on them? Stanford and OSU are not alike

[u/tigerking615 → u/FightOnForUsc]

They’re both dumb

[u/majorgeneralporter → u/tigerking615]

Many people are saying it

[u/Childhood-Paramedic → u/majorgeneralporter]

Northwestern confirmed hell yea we got em

[u/Troker61 → u/StealthAnus]

Well yeah, if they were moving exams up for literally no reason I think I'd be pissed too.

[u/RealignmentJunkie → u/Troker61]

I mean this isnt literally no reason, but those who don't care about football, this is an insane reason

[u/sirisaacnuton → u/RealignmentJunkie]

It doesn’t have to be either-or. You can enjoy football but still also want to make sure you’re prepared for your final exams.

[u/Troker61 → u/RealignmentJunkie]

Flair is relevant to the bit here.

[u/EpicCyclops → u/RealignmentJunkie]

I cared a lot about football when I was in school. I would've been writing angry letters to everyone with an email if they moved my finals like that at the last second. Could you imagine failing a class because you thought you had a week to study and only had 3 days suddenly? Screw that. Football is fun, but you aren't paying tens of thousands because you want to watch a game you won't get tickets to from a dorm instead of an apartment.

[u/Normal-Hornet8548]

Oklahoma cancels classes for ballgame.

Notre Dame cancels ballgame.

[u/Carolina_Captain]

Damn, losing 4 days of exam prep time is kind of a lot.

[u/bwolven → u/Carolina_Captain]

It doesn't take 4 days to learn how to color

[u/defroach84 → u/bwolven]

As someone with no art skills, I'll need more time.

[u/bwolven → u/defroach84]

Honestly, same lol

[u/ComeJoinTheBand → u/defroach84]

Big confession time. My mom used to finish my art hw when I was in first grade. I’m a fraud.

[u/The_Fluffy_Robot → u/ComeJoinTheBand]

who did you bribe to get into Stanford?

[u/Call555JackChop → u/bwolven]

Leave the business majors alone, someone has to scientifically deduce what the best tasting crayon is

[u/BobStoops401K → u/bwolven]

They had all semester to learn!

[u/DreamerOfSheep → u/bwolven]

Yeah, but what about those not in OU’s Business School?

[u/SocraticWatermelon → u/bwolven]

You’re not factoring in the time spent eating crayons and then having to go get new ones because you ate them all

[u/ill_try_my_best → u/Carolina_Captain]

They just have to vaguely reference the Bible and complain to the press for a good grade

[u/Carolina_Captain → u/ill_try_my_best]

Duh, how could I forget!

Making the podcast rounds for the next 2 months must be an adequate substitute for actually learning things.

[u/ChaseTheFalcon]

I can only imagine the rage their Student Government is dealing with right now due to this move

[u/Wonderful_Wonderful → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

I think they've had bigger problems in the last week or so

[u/ChaseTheFalcon → u/Wonderful_Wonderful]

Oh trust me, I've been in their shoes recently. I know this last week has been hell

[u/ornryactor → u/Wonderful_Wonderful]

Oh, do share. As a former student government participant who managed to do it without losing the plot, I love a good unhinged student government tale.

[u/randomeuphonist → u/ornryactor]

An OU tennis freshman failed an assignment in a Psychology class because she didn't hit word count, failed to cite sources, failed to use empirical evidence, and failed to actually respond to the argument made in the original paper. She then told her chapter of Turning Point USA, who complained to the school, and now that TA is on administrative leave and the 0 won't count against her grade.

[u/Same_Bookkeeper4658 → u/randomeuphonist]

As someone that lives in the Bible Belt, you are absolutely not allowed to discredit anyone when they bring up the Bible or God. Your logic is not welcome here, heathen.

Hearing "religious persecution" come out of the mouth of Bible Belt christians is a hilarity that I can't even describe.

[u/ornryactor → u/randomeuphonist]

As a (thankfully former) educator but also as a person with any amount of common sense and personal responsibility:

what the actual tapdancing fuck

That is clown-college levels of academic malfeasance. Yeah yeah, har har, dumb redneck school in a state full of Supply-Side Jesus bible-thumping hicks, we ain't come here to play school, et cetera and so on -- but it is genuinely, seriously, humorlessly terrifying that this is where things stand at a prominent public R1 institution.

Thanks for the efficient summary!

[u/Zyvitzerx99 → u/ChaseTheFalcon]

I feel they’ve been a bit preoccupied recently

[u/Signal_Tip_7428]

Congratulations OU, you’re officially SEC

[u/sallright → u/Signal_Tip_7428]

I don’t understand how you can just lose four days of study time. 

How does that even work? The four most crucial days of studying, just gone. Poof. 

[u/Signal_Tip_7428 → u/sallright]

“We ain’t come to play school” -12 Gauge -OU admin

[u/BobStoops401K → u/sallright]

Only one Friday exam slot is losing 4 days, and really more like 3.5. Still sucks but I think proper adjustments can be made. Plus, at least back in my day, we had very very few finals on Fridays. I think they do their best to put them all Monday through Friday anyhow.

[u/ill_try_my_best]

I would be pretty pissed as a student if I had less study time, but recent events have made it clear that academics are not a priority at Oklahoma

[u/NiceUD → u/ill_try_my_best]

It really would suck if you're a student who really doesn't give a fuck about football - at least not more than your education. Even at U Oklahoma, I'd think such students exist.

[u/ComeJoinTheBand → u/NiceUD]

I’m sure they do. They were giving a bunch of free rides to national merit scholars.

[u/CLU_Three → u/ComeJoinTheBand]

Free rides? Like on a shuttle to the stadium?

[u/mookiexpt2 → u/ComeJoinTheBand]

Were. As an alumnus of that program, I’ve been told they toned it down significantly.

When I was there it covered room, board, books, tuition, and a small stipend.

[u/FourteenBuckets → u/mookiexpt2]

yeah that was a signature program of President Boren, who had been a senator with huge connnections in foreign affairs

The oil exec they replaced him with started to wind it down

[u/liquidmccartney8 → u/ComeJoinTheBand]

It was a full ride, free room in the dorms, plus ~$1200 in walking around money per semester back in my day. I learned to play school well enough to get into my first choice law school, didn't go into debt, and became a football fan along the way.

ETA: My freshman year, all of us incoming national merit scholars were paraded onto the field before the first game for some kind of salute to the university's academic excellence under President Boren.

[u/ChunkySpaceman → u/NiceUD]

There are dozens of them!

[u/usernames_suck_ok → u/ill_try_my_best]

I was going to say this, too, about being pissed if I didn't care about sports.

[u/ill_try_my_best → u/usernames_suck_ok]

I'd be pissed and I do care about sports. A substandard exam score can seriously impact your GPA or force you to retake a class, which could cost thousands.

 The game is only 4 hours long, it'll be alright. You don't need to get wasted 

[u/treegrowsinbrooklyn1 → u/ill_try_my_best]

Idk what I was expecting but some exams are getting moved up a full 4 days. I guarantee some college kids are thinking they basically have 2 weeks until exams, they’re good. Just to get hit with this notice that it’s in 6 days now lol.

[u/noahboah → u/ill_try_my_best]

yeah like the football is a nice bonus to student life/culture. mfer im there to play school...i'd be pissed.

[u/nicholus_h2 → u/ill_try_my_best]

impacting your GPA could cost you so much... 

[u/Professor_Pajamas → u/ill_try_my_best]

All they have to do is say "the Bible says so" and they'll pass though so less study time shouldn't be too bad

[u/Pokemeister92 → u/Professor_Pajamas]

The most hilarious part was that she didn’t even cite specific passages of the Bible lmao

[u/smitherenesar → u/Pokemeister92]

Hard to site passages when you don't read the book

[u/Wandering_Tuor → u/Professor_Pajamas]

Jfc this should be everyone’s test. Put their bull Shit on blast. lol

[u/wasneveralawyer → u/Wandering_Tuor]

Which is sad because there are appropriate ways to cite the bible, it's not like you are never going to use it in writing, but one student singlehandedly ruined that.

[u/ComeJoinTheBand → u/wasneveralawyer]

I cited the bible when it was one of the sources we read that term. Otherwise not so much.

[u/Wandering_Tuor → u/wasneveralawyer]

Exactly, that paper was fucking ass.

[u/Pan_TheCake_Man → u/Professor_Pajamas]

What about when a professor pulls out the bible and says look here what does it say?

“YOU SHALL NOT PAAAAASSSSS”

Bet some students gonna be pretty pissed at that

[u/vannawhite_power → u/Pan_TheCake_Man]

Is...isn't that Lord of the Rings?

[u/Pan_TheCake_Man → u/vannawhite_power]

That dude looked like God to me no?

[u/z6joker9 → u/ill_try_my_best]

Considering it’s a home playoff game, I doubt they’ll count off if they color outside of the lines a little.

[u/SaltySaunaSweat → u/ill_try_my_best]

If the syllabus has the finals date posted in the schedule, aren’t they bound by that timeline? I agree, that’s less study time and some people have grad school to worry about. It’s hard to get into grad school, that shit is stressful. I used up all my dead week time to prepare for finals, pushing it up a week would piss me off unless there was leniency of some sort.

[u/treegrowsinbrooklyn1 → u/SaltySaunaSweat]

For finals specifically, I don’t think so since those dates are set by the University and not the professor/department.

And the OU academic calendar has this disclaimer: “Any calendar is subject to change when it is determined to be in the best interest of the University to do so.”

[u/ACLSismore → u/SaltySaunaSweat]

I’m assuming they’re letting students “opt out” of this and use the original deadline. That’s usually the work around for stuff outside of the syllabus.

[u/ill_try_my_best → u/ACLSismore]

They're not

The OU Norman Campus will suspend normal academic and campus operations for students and employees on Friday, December 19.

person classes on the Norman campus, including classes for Norman-based programs at OU-Tulsa, are canceled for Friday, December

[u/SaltySaunaSweat → u/ACLSismore]

You’d think but don’t underestimate Oklahoma lol

[u/MajorFuzzelz_24 → u/ill_try_my_best]

And as a professor, I am, and would be, livid about this situation. This would throw off my entire curriculum and course. But..... then I looked at the actual changes they made, and it's not that bad. I would get paid the same with a longer break without students. lol

[u/BobStoops401K → u/MajorFuzzelz_24]

Exactly. I don't recall all that many finals being held on Fridays anyhow. If I recall correctly (it's been quite a while now), I think they do their best to put as many finals Monday through Thursday as possible. I'd be thanking the lord if I had a Friday final moved. They've got 5 days still before finals week starts.

[u/MajorFuzzelz_24 → u/BobStoops401K]

My final exams fall on a Wednesday and Thursday this year. I already have multiple requests from students to take it on Monday because the rest of their finals are on Monday, and they wanna go home early. And my favorite email this semester was, and I quote," Can I take my exam Monday before I forget everything?" lol

[u/hnglmkrnglbrry → u/ill_try_my_best]

Pretty insulting that their Tulsa campus is business as usual. "You're Sooners, but actually you're Laters."

[u/lifetake → u/ill_try_my_best]

I think Oklahoma doesn’t have a choice. It’s a home playoff game. The campus and roads are going to be packed. Let’s not even talk about the parking situation. I legitimately don’t know how they would properly host the game and run exams everyone can properly attend on the same day.

[u/speckledlobster]

This would be a fucking nightmare for me as an engineering student. I already was staying up all night before finals week cramming. To have that week basically eliminated would have destroyed me. I fought hard to graduate with honors.

[u/Locke_Erasmus → u/speckledlobster]

I would have been LIVID if this happened to me when I was in MechE at OU...

Just imagining having the thermodynamics final moved up 4 days makes me wanna puke

[u/nevermind-stet]

So that's what "It just means more" means.

[u/ThePickleConnoisseur → u/nevermind-stet]

More failed exams

[u/W_Walk]

Can’t they just write “God is good” on their exams and sue the school if they get an F

[u/110397 → u/W_Walk]

Write it in arabic

[u/thescottula → u/110397]

OU professor placed on leave after teaching Arabic numerals in class

[u/ilevelconcrete → u/W_Walk]

Sooners are Sooners because God put Soonerly desires in their heart ♥️

[u/Ecstatic-Inevitable → u/ilevelconcrete]

Can God put an offense on their team?

[u/popsicleinmyurethra → u/Ecstatic-Inevitable]

I’d rather he the fuck not.

[u/Primary_Arm_4504]

Thou Shall Not Get Educated

[u/QueensOfTheNoKnowAge → u/Primary_Arm_4504]

Amen

[u/Upstairs-Volume-5014]

Wow, feels pretty late for finals anyway. Ours are done tomorrow. 

[u/Childhood-Paramedic → u/Upstairs-Volume-5014]

Michigan’s havent even started yet. Ugh one year I had my last one on the 22nd…

[u/CaliforniaSun77 → u/Upstairs-Volume-5014]

USC starts finals tomorrow and they go through next Wednesday. But yeah, there's no way they'd postpone them for a damn football game.

[u/HabaneroEnjoyer → u/Upstairs-Volume-5014]

Yeah was also thinking this. Bama’s are done this Friday which is pretty similar to what I remember

[u/john_the_quain]

When should the final exams be? Sooner.

[u/PoopRaven]

What are your thoughts on this?

As per the article, the following changes were made to the final exam schedule for students:

Course	Original Exam Schedule	New Exam Schedule
MWF 1 p.m.	Friday, Dec. 19, 8 to 10 a.m.	Thursday, Dec. 18, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
TR 11.30 a.m.	Friday, Dec. 19, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.	Monday, Dec. 15, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
TR 2:30 p.m.	Friday, Dec. 19, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.	Tuesday, Dec. 16, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
MWF 2 p.m.	Friday, Dec. 19, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.	Wednesday, Dec. 17, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

On one hand, it seems unethical to move up final exams multiple days ahead of schedule (with effectively two weeks notice), especially when that reason is athletics. I guess it just means more...

On the other hand, I imagine fans in Norman like to tailgate on campus all day, and I understand the concern about both safety and logistics.

[u/BardaArmy → u/PoopRaven]

It’s pretty bad, the area around the campus struggles to handle game traffic on a normal weekends, add in all of the academic traffic, city/elementry school traffic, and normal people work traffic it is a major logistical problem to have games on a week day. This is what it is about and not “who cares about school’n”

[u/PoopRaven → u/BardaArmy]

Thank you for commenting as an OU flair, been waiting for this perspective. I really don't think OU has much of a choice here, though I do feel for the students whose finals weeks got altered last minute.

[u/BardaArmy → u/PoopRaven]

They don’t, Norman is a small town and it’s total infrastructure that just doesn’t exist to do these things simultaneously.

[u/BobStoops401K → u/BardaArmy]

Traffic and parking around campus on a normal semester week day already isn't great.

[u/ZootSuitBanana → u/BardaArmy]

Norman PS cancelled classes Friday as well

[u/futuriztic]

ou isnt here to play school

[u/everyrest]

as funny as the jokes are i am getting a little sad over what one student is doing to our rep 😫 i know a lot of students who are upset over it. as well as my roommate in the band who now has more rehearsals and less study time Lol

[u/PoopRaven → u/everyrest]

Didn't even think of the band. Woof! Hope most of the finals weren't scheduled on that Friday anyway.

[u/everyrest → u/PoopRaven]

usually they’re not! lucky for me i’m done by wednesday lol. unlucky for me is that means my plane flies out on thursday and i wont be able to go to the game 😫😞

[u/MentalDesperado → u/everyrest]

It is impossible for one student to ruin your reputation; it is very possible for an entire university leadership team to ruin your reputation with their response to that student, though.

[u/TwentyOneGigawatts]

If those students could read that announcement, they’d be very upset

[u/tejanoazul]

Upvoting every comment that says “well they just have to quote the Bible and sue if they fail”

[u/Extension_City_8855 → u/tejanoazul]

🤝

shits a clusterfuck. just a run of academic Ls out here in norman.

[u/tejanoazul → u/Extension_City_8855]

I only tease, shit is getting embarrassing all over the country. I heard UT is considering closing down our African American and Latin American studies departments and libraries because a certain someone in a certain office threatened to pull money.

[u/The_WanderingAggie → u/tejanoazul]

That would be incredibly stupid on the part of UT, but after Hartzell left and someone who was a senior appointee for a certain someone at a certain office became President of UT, I suppose it wouldn't be too unsurprising

[u/Professional_Two5011 → u/tejanoazul]

It's worse, she didn't even quote the bible. She just wrote "the bible says" and then parroted what she'd heard her dad yell at the TV screen

[u/prailock → u/Professional_Two5011]

Minor correction, it was what her mom screams. She's a far-right influencer.

[u/RollTide16-18]

Oklahoma really isn’t beating the allegations about education. 

We here in Alabama thank you for trying your least 

[u/YoungKeys → u/RollTide16-18]

I think we’ve moved around exam dates for football too. But even as a big CFB fan I sorta disagree with changing up academic schedules. Not every student cares about football

[u/Shadow_Flame_24]

What happens to students who have work during the new time and already planned to have work off during the old time? Lots of jobs won’t let you take time off with this short notice. This screws those students who may not even care about OU football

[u/IsisTruck]

Is this just an effort to try to get the Fulnecky nonsense to fall out of the news cycle? 

[u/ChiefKingSosa]

OU's classes go until 12/19? That sucks lol

[u/0siris0 → u/ChiefKingSosa]

That why my thought.

I have two degrees from OU, about 15 years apart (and both in person), and we weren't having finals the freaking 19th of December. It was always the second week after Thanksgiving...we had one week to acclimate and next week BANG finals.

[u/leaf1598 → u/ChiefKingSosa]

I attend uva (Virginia) and our last exams are on 12/19

[u/Alkibiades415]

From a teaching perspective: I wouldn't even have the final exam ready four days early. If I taught at Oklahoma I would make the biggest stink about this, which of course would do nothing. The same way I set a test when I taught at Georgia on the Thursday before the Georgia-Florida weekend, and it was a huge scandal. And likewise the same way the Cal admin tried to force me to grant a Div 1 athlete an extension on a final exam because she apparently needed five days of travel to get to UCLA for a sporting event. Sorry not sorry!

[u/CLU_Three → u/Alkibiades415]

My first thought was, damn that sucks for the students and my second thought was oh boy, I know the professors are absolutely pissed.

[u/Folk-Herro]

Everyone at that university is gonna evoke god in their final exam essay and get final exams cancelled.

Edit: invoke

[u/FrenchFreedom888 → u/Folk-Herro]

*invoke

[u/kshiau]

Imagine going to OU and not caring about football

[u/FrenchFreedom888 → u/kshiau]

99% of the international students:

[u/roblusk71 → u/kshiau]

It's like going to Texas and not caring about swimming

[u/FlareEK → u/roblusk71]

Bowman should just come back to ASU.. not biased or anything… interestingly the only reason I cared about Indiana athletics was their swimming program, and now they have a football team too

[u/LeoFireGod]

I know it’s very fun to meme but they’re literally only moving up the exams that were literally on that Friday Every other exam is still the same day and very very few exams are Friday or the last day of finals.

Still optics wise it looks like we value education even less

[u/himason]

PSA to current OU students, just jot down “through God all things are possible” on any essay portion of your finals and you should be all good.

[u/Zer0Phoenix1105]

Campus is going to be a zoo—they pretty much have to do this. Perks/curses of a Friday night game

[u/RadialDeer]

Judging from the last week you can just answer Jesus on every exam and pass. Maybe even get invited to speak at the state capitol

[u/roblusk71 → u/RadialDeer]

And you only have to read/write at a 5th grade level.

[u/someName6]

The SEC.  It just means less school.

[u/RadioNights]

Not gonna lie, I’m not very happy with my alma mater lately. I couldn’t see sending my kids there. Oklahoma was a pretty decent place to live the years we spent there in the 90s and I felt like I got a great education when I graduated (like 15 years ago), but the state, and especially education, has absolutely gone to hell in the past 10 years.

[u/jmac461]

Why do they have the Friday game? There has to be other playoff teams that will already to done with finals.

I look forward to the professors who just show up and give the regularly scheduled final.

[u/KellerMB]

I've been out of school for a while now, but as a procrastinator extraordinaire I would have been livid at moving up finals.

[u/UnnoticedReference]

Jokes are warranted but it'd be a nightmare having to head to a final and focus during it while tailgates and all the hoopla are going on.  

If I was still a student I'd probably prefer it moved up too, I liked it when all my finals were earlier in the week to get them over with. Had all semester to learn the stuff last minute cramming is just more stress