Oklahoma football: Ranking the the Sooner teams of the past seven decades
By Chip Rouse
#3 — 2000s Oklahoma Sooners football (110-24-0)
To anyone under the age of 25, the first 10 seasons of the new millennium would be considered the best decade in Oklahoma football history, and it was truly one of the most exciting. These years spanned the first 11 in the Bob Stoops coaching era. The Sooners won 82 percent of their games between 2000 and 2009, including a national championship (2000) and six Big 12 championships.
Two Heisman Trophy winners were crowned (Jason White in 2003 and Sam Bradford in 2008). In addition, Adrian Peterson finished second in the Heisman voting in 2004 (White was third that year).
In Peterson’s sensational debut season at Oklahoma he set an NCAA freshman rushing record with 1,925 yards and finished his collegiate career with 4,045 yards, fourth most in Sooner history.
Oklahoma finished No. 1 in the final Associated Press poll in 2000 and in the top 10 six other times in the decade.
The Sooners went to a bowl game all 10 years in the decade and played in four national championship games, winning one.
The now epic Fiesta Bowl game with Boise State was played in January 2007, with the Broncos upsetting Adrian Peterson and the Sooners 43-42 in overtime after being down to their final snap three times in the final couple of minutes of the game.