Oklahoma football: One national writer has OU in postseason Cotton Bowl
By Chip Rouse
Oklahoma football has become a fixture in postseason play for 23 consecutive seasons. And close to half of those appearances have been major bowl assignments.
That is the second longest active bowl streak in college football and represents over 40 percent of the Sooners 55 total bowl appearances. OU’s first bowl appearance was in 1939, a 17-0 loss to No. 2-ranked Tennessee in the Orange Bowl.
The Sooners are 31-23-1 in those 55 bowl appearances, the third most postseason appearances all-time.
Of OU’s 23 consecutive bowl games, there have been a number of high-level postseason games, including four BCS title games, nine BCS bowl games in all and four College Football Playoff appearances. That totals up to what is known today as nine New Year’s Six bowl appearances in the past 23 seasons.
Chances are extremely good that Oklahoma will run its postseason streak to 24 straight seasons in 2022, and at least one national college football writer believes the Sooners, in their first season under new head coach Brent Venables, will add to their New Year’s Six bowl appearances this season.
Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports has written an article listing the 22 compelling storylines that will dominate the 2022 college football season, included within that article are projections for the College Football Playoff and the four other New Year’s Six bowl games for this coming season.
Dodd does not have Oklahoma winning the Big 12. He projects the Sooners finishing second to Baylor and earning a bid to the Cotton Bowl Classic to play the Houston Cougars. He has Baylor playing Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl, the No. 1 assignment in the Big 12’s current bowl agreement sequence.