The Oklahoma teams under head coach Bud Wilkinson in the 1950s were masters of the Split-T offense. The Sooners weren’t the originators of the Split-T offense. but Wilkinson and Oklahoma were the ones that executed it to near perfection and are most closely associated with its success.
Oklahoma won 93 games, including three national championships, and lost just 10 times in the decade of the 1950s. That was 13 more wins than the next closest team and the best record of any team in the country during that period.
Similarly, Barry Switzer’s teams in the 1970s ushered in an exciting Renaissance era in Oklahoma football, running an explosive, new, triple-option offense out of a formation termed the Wishbone.