Oklahoma Football Leads the Nation in 10-Win Seasons
By Chip Rouse
If you are counting the days, like most of us who are passionate about Oklahoma football, it is now just 15 days before the opening kickoff of the 2016 season.
Florida State owns the NCAA record for most consecutive 10-win seasons. Between 1987 and 2000, the Seminoles put together 14 consecutive years under head coach Bobby Bowden in which they reached double-digit victories for the season.
Texas is next on the list with nine consecutive 10-win seasons between 2001 and 2009.
You won’t find Oklahoma high on the list of teams with the most consecutive seasons with double-digit wins. The Sooner banner stands alone, however, at the top of the college football leaderboard for the most 10-win seasons.
Oklahoma has recorded 36 seasons with 10 or more wins, one more than Alabama and nine more than Nebraska. Michigan is fourth on the list with 26, followed by USC with 25. Twenty-four of OU’s record 36 seasons with 10-plus wins have come since 1970.
The Sooners also lead the nation for the most 11-win seasons with 22.
Even the great Oklahoma teams of the 1950s produced no more than five 10-win seasons in succession. Bob Stoops’ Sooner teams between 2000 and 2004 ran off five straight such seasons, but Barry Switzer never had more than four consecutive seasons with 10 or more wins.
Only four times in his 17 seasons at Oklahoma have the Sooners failed to reach 10 wins. That’s been pretty well documented. What you may not know is: Those 13 10-win seasons by OU in the Stoops era are the most by any team in a Power Five conference over the same time span.