Only four times in the Associated Press poll era has a team lost as many as two games in a season and been awarded the national championship.
In four of Oklahoma's seven national championship seasons, the Sooners finished the season undefeated (11-0 in 1955, 10-0 in 1956, 11-0 in 1974 and 14-0 in 2000).
Oklahoma began the 1985 season with consecutive wins at Minnesota, at Kansas State and against archrival Texas at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The Sooners' home season opener did not fall on the schedule until the fourth game of the season. No. 3 Oklahoma hosted the unranked Miami Hurricanes, coached by former OU assistant and Oklahoma State head coach Jimmy Johnson.