OU football will not host a traditional spring game, opting for a fan day where players and coaching staff members will participate in combine-style drills.

The Sooners are the latest program of several to scrap the annual spring football game tradition, and will instead host a fan-based event on April 12.

The University of Oklahoma Athletics Department announced it will debut a new fan-centric football event at Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium to replace OU's traditional spring game. "Crimson Combine" will be held Saturday,

Oklahoma is replacing its annual spring game with the Crimson Combine featuring drills and skills challenges, the program announced Monday.

Following a trend across college football, the Oklahoma Sooners announced a new format for their annual spring game called, the "Crimson Combine." In lieu of a typical scrimmage, Oklahoma players will participate in "combine-style drills,

OU will no longer have a spring game, the school announced on Monday. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be something for Sooner fans on April 12. Oklahoma joined several schools on Monday when it announced it won’t have its annual spring game this year.

It appears that the age of “spring games” in college football is coming to an end, as the Oklahoma Sooners became the latest program to cancel their spring game.

Like many college football programs around the nation, the Sooners have decided to move away from a traditional spring scrimmage and will have alternate fan engagement activities.