A small band of former OU football teammates plans to make the over 850-mile excursion from Oklahoma to the foothills of the Smoky Mountains this week.

They keep in touch in a group chat that’s part locker room — swapping stories and jokes about how life keeps looping them back to football. This weekend, if the timing works, they’ll fly east to Knoxville, Tennessee, where they’ll watch their old quarterback, Josh Heupel , face their old team.

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