It hasn’t always been that way, though. Barry Switzer had some outstanding defensive teams in the 1970s and ’80s that played high-level complementary football. And Bob Stoops, a defensive coach all the way to his core, had some very good defensive units in the early years of his coaching tenure at Oklahoma.
The Sooners have had All-Americans at every defensive position.
One of the chief calling cards of those exceptional defenses under Switzer and Stoops was great play in the defensive secondary, something that has plagued the Sooners and been somewhat hit and miss over the past decade.