Several of the Sooners’ championship runs over the past 20 years have been the subject of controversy. For example, in each of the last two years, Oklahoma was the final team to make it into the College Football Playoff, and both times it was surrounded by some controversy.
The same was true in 2015, when the Sooners got the nod over Ohio State for the fourth and final CFP spot and became the first Big 12 team to make an appearance in the new playoff format to determine the national champion.
There is a common thread that runs through all three of these years in which Oklahoma has been a Playoff participant.