Oklahoma football’s current road winning is impressive, but it could reach historic proportions this year.
On Oct. 4, 2014 Oklahoma football dropped a 37-33 heartbreaker to TCU at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth.
Since then the Sooners have gone through three defensive coordinators, two offensive coordinators, two head coaches, two Heisman Trophies, four Big 12 Championships and three College Football Playoff appearances, but they haven’t lost another road game.
Oklahoma football’s current 20-game road winning streak is the second longest in Division I college football, behind only the 1953-57 Bud Wilkinson squads that won 24 consecutive road contests in the midst of their NCAA record 47-game winning streak.
To say the Sooners have done it against lesser competition wouldn’t be fair either. In the past four seasons Oklahoma football has knocked off No. 19 West Virginia, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 11 Oklahoma State, No. 21 TCU, No. 10 West Virginia, NO. 23 Tennessee, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Oklahoma State all in their own house. Four top 10 opponents, two top five foes and eight ranked teams have all come up short at home against the Sooners.
If one were to draw a straight line through all of the road success there are only a few common denominators, but Lincoln Riley is the biggest one. He has been in charge of the offense through almost the entire Sooners road game winning streak. During that time the Sooners have scored at least 30 points in every road game they have played.
Against ranked opponents on the road Oklahoma is averaging an astonishing 48 points per game -so much for hostile crowds affecting offensive performance.
The Sooners are currently tied with the 1984-88 Miami squads and within just one game of tying 1971-75 Alabama for second place at 21 straight.
If they were to win all their road games this year they would tie the Wilkinson record on Nov. 16 in Waco against Baylor and could break it in the season finale – a Nov. 30 Bedlam date in Stillwater.