Oklahoma AD 'infuriated' with SEC, Ole Miss for Sunday game - ESPN

Athletic director Roger Denny took aim at the SEC office and Ole Miss in expressing his frustration with Oklahoma's game against the Rebels being postponed to Sunday, repeatedly calling it an «inexplicable» situation that «unfairly burdens» the Sooners.

In an interview with SoonerScoop on Saturday morning, Denny claimed Ole Miss made a football decision in preferring to push the game to 1 p.m. ET on Sunday and questioned whether school officials made sufficient efforts to get to Norman in time to play Saturday.

The game was originally scheduled for 4:15 p.m. Saturday, and Denny said Oklahoma was «absolutely» open to playing the game on Saturday night if possible. He said doing so would've presented some inconveniences but would've been «nowhere near as unfair to our fans» as moving the game to Sunday.

«It's inexplicable,» Denny said. «I can't wrap my mind around the fact that they can't find a way to get here. My concern is the level at which they were pushed to find a way to get here.»

Ole Miss was unable to depart Oxford on Friday due to the FAA ground stoppage. The SEC said in a statement published at 1:12 a.m. ET on Saturday that a late-night departure could not be accommodated by Ole Miss' charter partner and the team's departure needed to be rescheduled for Saturday afternoon.

Denny said Oklahoma's administration heard from state highway and police officials «as early as 9 o'clock last night» that Ole Miss was telling them they expected the game to be played Sunday and planned to arrive late Saturday afternoon.

To Denny, that raised questions about Ole Miss' travel efforts and «how many levers they were trying to pull to actually get here.»

«The fact that we heard that from our highway patrol and not directly from