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Oklahoma has never played 3 Power 4 football teams and has never beaten 5 others

Oklahoma boasts a winning record against 50 of the 63 Power 4 teams it has played at least twice.
ByChip Rouse
USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect

A couple of weeks ago, Oklahoma played Mississippi State for the first time in football. That was the last team in the SEC that the Sooners had never played, leaving three Power 4 teams, all from the same conference, that have never appeared on the Oklahoma football schedule.

Oklahoma now has played every team in the SEC, the Big 12, and the ACC at least once, and 15 of the 18 teams that make up the Big Ten. The three schools that aren't on that list are Michigan State, Purdue, and Rutgers.

Of the 69 teams that make up the four power conferences, plus Notre Dame, there are five programs Oklahoma has played in football but never beaten. Three of the five were one-game encounters (Illinois and Indiana out of the Big Ten, and Arizona State out of the Big 12). Two others have multiple victories over the Sooners without a loss.

2 SEC teams are among the 5 Power 4 programs Oklahoma has played but never beaten

The program with the most wins over Oklahoma without having suffered a loss is the Sooners' opponent this weekend, the Ole Miss Rebels, who are 3-0 against Oklahoma and seeking to make it four in a row on Saturday.

The Sooners played Georgia this season for just the second time. The game this season was the first time the two teams had met since they played for the first time in a semifinal game in the 2017 College Football Playoff. Georgia was victorious in both games and thus owns a 2-0 all-time mark over Oklahoma.

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In addition to the three Power 4 teams Oklahoma has never played and the five the Sooners have never defeated, 14 of the 69 teams own winning records against the Sooners, ranging from 1-0 and 2-1 to 9-2.

The two power programs that have had Oklahoma's number the most over the years are Notre Dame, the team that snapped the Sooners' NCAA record 47-game winning streak back in 1957, which is 9-2 all-time vs. Oklahoma, and the Miami Hurricanes, who dealt Barry Switzer's Sooners a fit in the 1970s and '80s. Miami has won four of the seven total games played against Oklahoma. Miami and Oklahoma last played each other in 2009.

Eighty-two percent of the 1,373 football games Oklahoma has played in its 131-year history have been against teams currently members of one of the four major conferences. The Sooners own a winning record against all four conferences.

OU's highest winning percentage has been against teams currently aligned with the ACC. The Sooners are 53-14-2 against teams from the ACC.

Oklahoma's second-best winning record, not surprisingly, is against teams in the Big 12, the conference the Sooners were members of in some capacity for 105 years, dating back to when it was named the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. OU is 460-121-21 all-time against teams out of the Big 12.

In case you're curious, the team Oklahoma has dominated the most over the years is Iowa State. The Sooners are 80-7-2 against Iowa State in football for a winning percentage of .910. Two of those losses have come since 2017. Between 1962 and 1989, the two teams played 28 times. The Sooners won 27 of those games and one ended in a tie. In another stretch, from 1991 to 2016, Oklahoma won 18 consecutive games vs. the Cyclones.

The Power 4 teams Oklahoma has played the most are Texas (122 total games), Oklahoma State (118), Kansas (108), and Kansas State (103).

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