Oklahoma football: Sooners are highest scoring team in college football history

There are teams that have played more football games and produced more wins than the Oklahoma football program, but no team has put as many points on the scoreboard as the Sooners.

In 125 seasons of varsity football, Oklahoma has scored a grand total of 36,383 points, most in NCAA history. That’s an average of 28.25 points per game over the 1,288 games the Sooners have played in their long and highly decorated history.

Over the last 50 seasons, and particularly in the last two decades, the Oklahoma offense has been among the best in the college game, but some of the highest scoring outputs in Sooner football history actually occurred in the early years, or prior to the end of World War II.

Between 1895 and 1946, Oklahoma teams scored 80 or more points 14 different times and actually went over the 100-point mark eight times. In 1917, the Sooners finished with a 6-4-1 season record, but three of those six wins were by a margin of 80 or more points. They opened the season with a 99-0 victory of Central Oklahoma and followed that with a 179-0 shutout of Kingfisher College, the most points ever scored by a Sooner football team. They also defeated cross-state rival Tulsa by a score of 80-0 that season.

In 1918, Oklahoma won all six of its scheduled games and only gave up seven points total. One of its six victories was a 103-0 thrashing of the University of Arkansas.

In the first 52 seasons of Oklahoma football (1895 to 1946), the Sooners scored 60 or more points in a game 33 times. In the 73 years since 1947, the Sooners have tallied at least 60 point 47 times, but 70 or more points only eight times and over 80 points just once.

Oklahoma defeated Colorado 82-42 in the 1980 season. That was the most points scored by the Sooners since the 1971 team put 75 points on the scoreboard in a win over Kansas State.

The Sooners scored 60 or more points 22 times in Bob Stoops’ 18 seasons as the OU head coach.

In 2008, Oklahoma led the nation in scoring offense, averaging 51.1 points a game. In five straight games that season, the Sooners scored 60 or more points

Between1973 and 1988, Barry Switzer’s Oklahoma teams eclipsed the 60-point mark 14 times, while Bud Wilkinson’s Sooners had just six games of at least 60 points. The average score in that five-game stretch was 63.2 to 27.8.

In three seasons under Lincoln Riley, the Oklahoma offense has continued to light up the scoreboard like a pinball machine. The Sooners have averaged 45.2 points a game and finished in the top three in the nation in scoring in two of the last three seasons.