The Oklahoma football series with West Virginia, the Sooners’ opponent this Saturday, is a mere 12 games long.
Before the Mountaineers became members of the Big 12 Conference in 2012, the two schools had faced each other in football a total of just four times. West Virginia visited Norman, Oklahoma, three separate times before joining the Big 12.
The very first game between Oklahoma and West Virginia was in 1958. The Sooners, ranked No. 2 in the country and coached at that time by the legendary Bud Wilkinson, won that inaugural meeting fairly easily, 47-14.
The two schools met a second time 20 years later, in 1978.