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Oklahoma football: National talk-show host calls OU one of the ‘4 Big Dogs’

By Chip Rouse

AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 13: Radio host Colin Cowherd speaks onstage at 'The Evolution of Audio in the 21st Century' during the 2015 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Four Seasons Hotel on March 13, 2015 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Amy E. Price/Getty Images for SXSW)
AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 13: Radio host Colin Cowherd speaks onstage at 'The Evolution of Audio in the 21st Century' during the 2015 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Four Seasons Hotel on March 13, 2015 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Amy E. Price/Getty Images for SXSW) /
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A top reputation takes a long time to earn and is enduring, and Oklahoma football has earned one of the best when it comes to building and sustaining a championship-level program.

Oklahoma was an elite college football brand before Bob Stoops arrived on the scene and restored the Sooners to national relevancy. The Sooners had won six national championships under two different coaches in the last century. Since 2000, Oklahoma has won just one national title, but it has been on the cusp a bunch of other times.

The Sooners played in four BCS National Championship games in the first decade of the 2000s (tying Florida State for the most by any one school in the BCS era) and they have participated in four of the six College Football Playoffs.

FOX Sports 1 show host Colin Cowherd has not been a particular fan or one to laud Oklahoma football in the past. He was especially critical of Baker Mayfield’s antics when he was a Sooner.

Some of that might be forgiven, however, by what Cowherd had to say on his program, “The Herd,” this week about the prestige of Oklahoma football. “There’s only two tiers in college football,” he said and cited by OU Insider Joey Helmer of 247Sports. Cowherd puts Oklahoma in the top tier.

“There are four programs in America that are just different: Bama, Ohio State, Oklahoma and USC,” said Cowherd.

“Forget the fact that all have won national titles with three different head coaches,” he continued. “But if every college football program in America had their best coach ever, these four would dominate the sport.”

It’s certainly nice to be recognized on a level apart from all the others and as “one of the four big dogs” in all of college football, but the takeaway from all of this is that Oklahoma’s elite football reputation has been earned over many years. What the Sooners have achieved over the last 20 years is added shine to an already prestigious standing.

It’s also something the Sooner Nation will never tire of hearing.

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