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Jenni Carlson
8/15/2016, 01:11 PM
By the 1950s, college football's balance of power had drifted from the elite Eastern schools to the Midwest, where Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma Sooners dominated the polls and set a record winning streak that still stands. Over the decade, the Sooners appeared in nearly 95 percent of The Associated Press polls, with their 26 weeks at No. 1 by far the most of any team. While the Sooners' unprecedented success dominates any conversation about college football in the 1950s, the era brought some notable changes.

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