They say the first national title is always the hardest one to get. While it took 75 years for the Sooners to reach the college football summit, they’ve captured six other national championships in the 50 seasons since then.
Only Alabama with 12 and Notre Dame with eight have won more national championships in football in the Associated Press era than Oklahoma.
Bud Wilkinson was in his fourth season as the Oklahoma head coach in 1950. His teams had won the conference championships in each of his first three seasons (1947 as a member of the Big Six Conference, and in 1948 and ’49 after the conference admitted Colorado to expand by one and became the Big Seven) and compiled an overall record of 28-3-1.