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Oklahoma football: 101 primer on Oklahoma-Kansas State series

By Chip Rouse

Oct 27, 2018; Norman, OK, USA; Oklahoma Sooners running back Kennedy Brooks (26) runs for a touchdown past Kansas State Wildcats defensive back Denzel Goolsby (20) during the second half at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 27, 2018; Norman, OK, USA; Oklahoma Sooners running back Kennedy Brooks (26) runs for a touchdown past Kansas State Wildcats defensive back Denzel Goolsby (20) during the second half at Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports /
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It has been 103 years since the first Oklahoma football game with Kansas State. The first game was played in 1908 in Manhattan, Kansas, with Oklahoma winning by a score of 33-4.

The two schools have played 102 times since then, with the Sooners winning 77 times, K-State 21 and four games have ended in a tie.

Since 1919, Oklahoma and Kansas State have been members of the same conference, starting with the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which later evolved into the Big Six Conference. As new members were added, it became the Big Seven, the Big Eight and now the Big 12.

Kansas State University is located approximately 300 miles north of Norman, Oklahoma, in Manhattan, Kansas.

Both schools began playing varsity football around the same time. K-State’s first year of football was in 1896, 33 years after the university was founded (1863). OU’s first football season was in 1895, five years the University of Oklahoma was established. The Sooners began playing football 12 years before Oklahoma became a state.

Here are a few more interesting facts about both schools:

School colors: Royal purple and white (KSU); crimson and cream (OU)

Mascots: Willie the Wildcat (KSU); Sooner Schooner and Boomer and Sooner (costumed characters resembling Boomer and Sooner, the ponies who pull the Sooner Schooner)

All-time records: 553-664-41, .455 (KSU); 931-331-53, .726 (OU)

Conference championships: 6 (KSU); 50 (OU)

Conference championship matchups since 2000: 27-24 Oklahoma in 2000; 35-7 Kansas State in 2003; OU and K-State shared the conference championship in 2012, but a conference championship game was not played between 2011 and 2016.

Bowl records: 10-13 (KSU); 31-23-1 (OU)

Head coaches: Chris Klieman (4th season at KSU); Brent Venables (1st season at OU)

Head-to-head record since 2000: 13-5 in favor of Oklahoma

Largest margin of victory by OU: 76-0 in 1942

Largest margin of victory by KSU: 49-10 in 1995

Longest win streak by OU in OU-K-State series: 32 (1937-1968)

Longest win streak by KSU in OU-K-State series: 5 (1993-1997)

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