Since the turn of the century and when Bob Stoops arrived on the scene to turn around a struggling Oklahoma football program wrestling with its identity, Sooner football recruiting has been among the best in the country.
Since 2000, the same year Oklahoma won its seventh and most recent national championship, Sooner recruiting classes have ranked in the top-10 nationally 16 times, according to 247Sports, and eight times in the opening decade of the new century.
We are at a point and time in the evolution of college football that the Transfer Portal has assumed an increasingly important role in the annual recruiting process and the replenishment of roster needs from one season to the next.