John Mateer’s Gambling Statement Divides America as Brent Venables’ Oklahoma Takes Final Call Oklahoma QB John Mateer and OU Athletics address a brewing controversy as the Sooners go through a difficu

If you follow college football, you already know this: the NCAA doesn’t play around when it comes to maintaining the sanctity of the sport. One wrong move, and a player’s season or even career can go up in smoke. That’s why Oklahoma Sooners quarterback John Mateer’s name popping up in a sports gambling controversy has hit like a lightning bolt across Sooner Nation. The thing making everyone talk? Screenshots of Mateer’s Venmo transactions from 2022 with “sports gambling” in the description, mentioning the USC vs. UCLA game. Not exactly the type of thing you want floating around when you’re about to lead Brent Venables’ offense into the new season.

To make matters even more intriguing, these transactions date back to Mateer’s freshman year at Washington State, before he transferred