In today’s countdown week feature, we look back at the incredible opening years of Bud Wilkinson’s great Oklahoma teams of the late 1940s and 1950s.
Lincoln Riley won a record 12 games last season in his first year as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners. In Wilkinson’s first season, his 1947 Sooner team started off 2-2-1 before closing out with five consecutive wins.
Oklahoma lost its 1948 season opener at Santa Clara (California). Over the next 10 seasons and 100 games, however, the Sooners reeled off incredible winning streaks of 31 and 47 games and compiled an unbelievable overall record of 94 wins, just four losses and two ties.