Oklahoma isn't No. 1 yet during the 2025 season, but the Sooners lead the nation in multiple college football all-time categories.
The Sooners are no strangers, however, to the top spot in the national rankings, both at the beginning and the end of the season. Oklahoma has begun the season as the top-ranked team in the prseason Associated Press Top 25 10 times since the preseason version of the college football poll was introduced in 1950. Oklahoma has finished the season as the country's top-ranked team seven times, and four of those times the Sooners were also the preseason No. 1 team.
OU has been ranked No. 1 a total of 101 times in the weekly AP poll, third-most of any team in college football, and up until several years ago, led all of college football in this category. Alabama is No. 1 with 101 weeks as the nation's top-ranked team in the AP poll; Ohio State is No. 2 with 108 weeks at No. 1, including the last two weeks.
Perhaps the most notable of Oklahoma's all-time records in football is the Sooners' incomparable 47-game winning streak, achieved between 1953 and 1957, an extraordinary string that will likely never be surpassed. The closest is 40 consecutive wins by Washington (1908-14).
Oklahoma has long been known for its explosiveness on offense. The Sooners have scored a total of 38,680 points in 131 years of football. That is the most of any team in college football.
The Sooners' 50 conference championships also stands alone in college football annals. Nebraska is the closest with 46, followed by Michigan with 45 and Ohio State 39.
Oklahoma's 950 all-time wins ranks sixth among college football teams, but since the end of World War II (1946 to present), the Sooners have collected 707 victories, the most of any school.
Winning as many as 11 games in a 12- or 13-game schedule is extremely difficult. For example, only five teams, including Oklahoma, have finished with as many as 11 perfect seasons (undefeated and no ties) since 1900, and only Oklahoma and Alabama are tied with the most 11-win seasons in college football history (27).
Oklahoma, with 42, also ranks one behind Alabama in the number of 10-win seasons.
All of this adds up to how Oklahoma Sooner football has established itself as one of the all-time greats in the history of college history.
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