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Oklahoma football: Takeaways from WVU for Championship Saturday

By Chip Rouse

NORMAN, OK - NOVEMBER 25: Running back Rodney Anderson
NORMAN, OK - NOVEMBER 25: Running back Rodney Anderson /
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NORMAN, OK – NOVEMBER 11: Head Coach Lincoln Riley of the Oklahoma Sooners during warm ups before the game against the TCU Horned Frogs at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on November 11, 2017 in Norman, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated TCU 38-20. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
NORMAN, OK – NOVEMBER 11: Head Coach Lincoln Riley of the Oklahoma Sooners during warm ups before the game against the TCU Horned Frogs at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on November 11, 2017 in Norman, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated TCU 38-20. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) /

Lincoln Riley’s 11 wins are the most of any Oklahoma head coach in his debut season

Oklahoma’s 59-31 victory over West Virginia was win number 11 for first-year Sooner head coach Lincoln Riley. That make him the only one of 22 head football coaches at the University of Oklahoma to reach as many as 11 wins in his debut season.

Since Riley arrived in Norman as OU offensive coordinator under Bob Stoops in 2015, the Sooners are 33-5. That corresponds to the time that Baker Mayfield has been the Oklahoma starting quarterback. That is tied with Ohio State for the third best record by an FBS team since the 2015 season.

With 11 wins in his first season as a head coach, the 34-year-old Riley, the youngest head coach in the FBS, passes Barry Switzer (1973) and Chuck Fairbanks (1967), both of whom logged 10 wins in their first season as head coach at Oklahoma.

On a larger scale, Riley is the 13th coach in FBS history with no prior head-coaching experience at a four-year institution to win at least 11 games in his first season.

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