Bob Stoops’ Oklahoma coaching career by the numbers
By Chip Rouse
Eighteen seasons at the same school is like a lifetime in the life cycle of a college football head coach. Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops made the absolute most of those years as reflected in the stellar accomplishments told in the numbers that follow:
.798 – Bob Stoops’ winning percentage as head coach at Oklahoma.
2 – Years in which Bob Stoops has been honored as National Coach of the Year (2000 and 2003).
2 – Number of Heisman Trophy winners Jason White in 2003 and Sam Bradford in 2008) at OU during the Stoops coaching era.
6 – Times Bob Stoops has been named Big 12 Coach of the Year (2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016).
9-9 – His record in bowl games while at Oklahoma.
10 – Big 12 football championships under Stoops.
12 – Number of first-round NFL draft picks during Stoops’ 18 seasons at OU.
14 – Number of seasons his Sooner teams posted 10 wins or more; 12 times in 18 years, Oklahoma won 11 or more games.
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18 – This is not only the number of seasons Bob Stoops was the head coach and face of Oklahoma Sooner football, it also represents the consecutive seasons he took his team to a postseason bowl game, including four national championship games, as well as the number of winning seasons he had while at OU.
30 – Number of weeks Oklahoma was ranked as the Associate Press No. 1 team while Stoops was head coach. That ranks fourth best in the country since 2000.
60-30 – Record in games against Associated Press Top-25 opponents during Stoops’ career as a head coach. That is a winning percentage of .667, the best in the country over the last 18 seasons in such games.
101-9 – Oklahoma’s home record under Bob Stoops, the best home record of any Power Five conference team since 1999.
110 – Number of home games played at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (Owen Field) while Stoops was head coach. Every one of those games was a sellout.
121-29 – Bob Stoops’ record in Big 12 games.
190 – Career wins at Oklahoma, the most of any head coach in Sooner football history.
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Count ’em – Times Bob Stoops was rumored to be headed somewhere else while he was head coach at Oklahoma.
0 – Number of times those aforementioned rumors proved to be true.