Oklahoma's 10-win 2025 season marked the 43rd time a Sooner team had reached that win total in 131 seasons of college football. That stands one behind Alabama for the most 10-win seasons in college football history.
The Sooners are also one back of the Crimson Tide for the most 11-win seasons. Alabama has 28 such seasons to Oklahoma's 27. Alabama was able to break the tie with the win over the Sooners in last season's opening round of the College Football Playoff, which gave the Crimson Tide their 11th win of the season.
These are just two of the countless number of fun historical facts embedded in Oklahoma's storied championship football history. With the opening of the Sooners' 132nd season of college football now just 10 days away on Friday, Sept. 4, against UTEP, we've pulled together 10 fun facts to expand your fan knowledge of Sooner football and get you ready for the kickoff of the new season.
Test your 1st-and-10 knowledge of Sooner football trivia and see how many of these fun facts you were aware of before now
- Legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite was part of a team that broadcast Oklahoma football games in 1937 for an Oklahoma City radio station.
- The cover story in the Nov. 18, 1957, issue of Sports Illustrated carried the headline "Why Oklahoma is Unbeatable." That was just a few days before the Sooners lost 7-0 to Notre Dame, ending OU's NCAA record 47-game winning streak.
- Jimmy Harris was the Oklahoma starting quarterback from 1954 to 1956 and during most of the Sooners' NCAA record 47-game winning streak. The Sooners never lost a game during those three seasons Harris was the starting QB, going 31-0.
- Before Bud Wilkinson's 1950s Oklahoma teams set the NCAA record for most consecutive wins with 47 from 1953 to 1957, the Sooners posted a 31-game win streak, also under Wilkinson, between 1948 and 1950. The latter ranks as the fifth-longest in college football history.
- The 1971 Oklahoma team, featuring Greg Pruitt, Leon Crosswhite and QB Jack Mildren in the backfield, set the NCAA record for rushing yards per game (472.4) over a full season. Pruitt led all of college football that season, averaging 9.4 yards per carry. The 1987, 1976 and 1986 Oklahoma teams also hold the second-, third- and fourth-most rushing yards per game, respectively, for a season in NCAA history.
- How many Oklahoma football jersey numbers have been retired in the history of the program? The answer is zero.
- Oklahoma scored 60-plus points in five consecutive games in the 2008 season. The average score in those five games was 63-28. The Sooners led the country in scoring that season, averaging 51.1 points a game.
- Oklahoma's first televised football game was on Nov. 8, 1952. The opponent was Notre Dame, and the game was played in South Bend, Indiana. The game was televised by NBC as part of that network's College Football Game of the Week, which debuted that season. As has become the norm in the 10 meetings all-time between the Sooners and the Fighting Irish, Notre Dame was the victor in that milestone game in 1952, coming out on top, 28-21. The 1952 game was the first time OU and Notre Dame had played each other in football. The two college football blue bloods have played nine other times since, with the Irish prevailing in seven of the nine games.
- 1911 was the first undefeated season of six or more games in Oklahoma history. The Sooners have had 10 undefeated seasons since, the most recent one in the 2000 national championship season when OU went 13-0. Bennie Owen (1905-26) had four undefeated seasons as head coach; Bud Wilkinson's OU teams (1947-63) posted four unbeaten seasons, including three in a row in 1954, '55 and '56; Barry Switzer's Sooner teams went undefeated twice; and Bob Stoops accomplished the feat in his second season as the OU head coach.
- The Sooner Schooner was first introduced in 1964, when it was led on the field by two white ponies after an Oklahoma score in a home football game against USC. The Schooner didn't have much of an opportunity to strut its stuff in its official debut, however, as the Sooners scored just twice in a 40-14 loss. The Sooner Schooner didn't become the official mascot for 16 more years, in 1980.
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