Houston coach Dana Holgorsen on not releasing a depth chart for Week 1. He says lightheartedly, ‘I’ve always released a depth chart. ... If they aren’t putting one out, I ain’t putting one out.’ pic.twitter.com/g5qRLwwmZS — Joseph Duarte (@Joseph_Duarte) August 26, 2019

Houston coach Dana Holgorsen took some shots at Oklahoma at Monday’s press conference when he poked fun at the Sooners’ lack of a week one depth chart.

“I’ve always released a depth chart,” Holgorsen said. “I’ll release one … you know, why they don’t post put one out it’s just, I mean, kind of silly to me. So if they’re not putting one out, I ain’t putting one out. I guess I’ll put one out with those funny ‘eyes’ and stuff like that.”

Asked to clarify his “funny eyes” comment, Holgorsen continued.

“Well, look at their depth chart, it’s like two eyes,” Holgorsen said of Oklahoma’s popularly used eyeball emoji. “So I can kind of figure out who they’re going to play with. And they’re going to kind of figure out who we’re going to play with. So after game one, when we put a starting lineup out, we’ll probably readjust the depth chart the next week and the next week and the next week.

“Now I do understand that you want to have competition within every position. So there is honestly some positions on our team right now we don’t know who the starter is,” Holgorsen said. “And that’s probably the same thing for them and we’ll figure it out soon enough.”

Jokes aside, Oklahoma is likely to release a depth chart before the first game; for the past few years the Sooners have done so through a live SoonerSportsTV release. Here’s one from 2017, for example:

So it’s not that Oklahoma won’t release a depth chart as the Sooners just haven’t yet. And the eyeball emoji — one that Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley also uses when the Sooners land a commitment in recruiting — isn’t saying “wait and see on Saturday” as much as “wait until our planned release this week.”

Even so, it's always fun when opposing coaches bring some heat to the non-conference schedule, so Holgorsen's efforts — he's already said Houston will defeat Oklahoma when the two play on Sunday — are appreciated.

Houston won the last time the two teams played, when the Cougars held off the Sooners 33-23 at NRG Stadium in 2016. But it's worth noting that both teams are under new coaches since; in fact, Houston is on its second coaching swap since that game, with then-Houston coach Tom Herman leaving to go to Texas after the 2016 season and the school electing to part ways with his replacement, Major Applewhite, after last season.

Riley replaced Bob Stoops atop the Oklahoma program to start 2017, and he's 2-0 as a head coach against Holgorsen, including last year's 59-56 victory at West Virginia.