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    Fact: Oklahoma has the best winning percentage in college football over the last 75 years.
    Oklahoma is the winningest program in what is widely considered the modern era of college football. OU has the most victories and best winning percentage of any team since the end of World War II. Going further back, the Sooners have the most wins and best winning percentage in major college football over the past 75 years (since 1935).

    Fact: Oklahoma is the only school to have appeared in all five BCS bowl games.
    The current BCS games include the Sugar, Fiesta, Orange and Rose Bowls plus the BCS National Championship Game (started in 2007). Oklahoma is the only program in the nation to have appeared in all five games. Since 2000, the Sooners have been to three Fiesta Bowls, two Orange Bowls and made one appearance in each of the Rose, Sugar and BCS games. Overall, OU has played in eight BCS bowl games including four for the national title.

    Fact: Oklahoma has more 10+ win seasons than any other program.
    No team has more seasons with 10 or more wins than Oklahoma. The Sooners have amassed 32 seasons with 10 or more victories -- the most of any program in the nation. OU also leads the nation in seasons with 11+ wins with 20. Oklahoma's enduring success on the gridiron is further reflected in the fact that the Sooners have recorded seasons with 10 or more wins in eight different decades since the first double-digit win season in 1915 (10-0).

    Fact: Oklahoma has scored more points than any team in college football.
    Michigan began playing football in 1879 and has since scored the second-most points in college football history. Who do the Wolverines trail? Oklahoma,which didn't start playing football until 16 years later in 1895. The Sooners have scored 31,437 points in their history, churning out a record average of 27 points over 1,168 games.

    Fact: Oklahoma has the longest winning streak in college football history.
    Oklahoma holds the NCAA record for most consecutive wins by a major college program at 47-straight. The streak spanned five seasons from 1953-57. Oklahoma's 47-game winning streak is considered one of the greatest feats in college football history. Since World War I, there have been only four streaks of more than 30 wins in major college football. OU owns two of the four.

    Fact: Oklahoma has been ranked No. 1 by the AP more times than any other team.
    OU has a long and illustrious history with the Associated Press Poll since the service began in 1936. The Sooners have been ranked No. 1 more than any team (97 weeks). The Sooners also own the most weeks in the Top 2 and the Top 5. The Sooners top the nation in average poll ranking and have the highest average finish in the final poll of any team.

    Fact: No team has been No. 1 in the BCS more weeks than Oklahoma.
    Since the introduction of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) in 1998, Oklahoma has been ranked more weeks at No. 1 and in the Top 5 than any other program in college football. The Sooners have been at the top of the BCS standings for a record 20 weeks and ranked in the top five for 46.

    Fact: ESPN ranked Oklahoma the most prestigious college football program.
    ESPN's research department ran all the numbers through the computer to come up with the No. 1 program of the past 73 seasons. "When you look at the big picture of college football since 1936, no program has achieved greatness as consistently as Oklahoma. We didn't even count the fact that Oklahoma owns the longest win streak in FBS history (47) or leads the nation with a .765 winning percentage since World War II."

    Fact: Oklahoma is the only school to have four head coaches with at least 100 wins each.
    Oklahoma is the only program in major college football to produce four head coaches with at least 100 wins each. Bob Stoops reached the mark against Washington in Seattle on September 13, 2008. The others? Barry Switzer (157 wins), Bud Wilkinson (145) and Bennie Owen (122).

    Fact: No team has produced more unanimous All-Americans than Oklahoma.
    Of Oklahoma's 152 All-Americans, 31 were accorded the highest honor -- unanimous selections -- as designated by the NCAA (named by all five official selectors: FWAA, AFCA, AP, Walter Camp andSporting News). No school in the nation has produced more unanimous All-Americans than Oklahoma in the history of college football.

    Fact: Oklahoma has had at least one first team all-conference player every year since 1926.
    Oklahoma has produced 448 first team all-conference players since Owen Acton first earned the honor in 1907. OU has placed at least one all-conference player on the first team every year since 1926 (85 seasons). In fact, OU has only had one season when playing in a conference without first-team honors (1925). That's 95 of 96 seasons.

    Fact: OU has nearly as many Big 12 Championships as all the other teams combined.
    Oklahoma won its seventh Big 12 title with a victory against Nebraska in the 2010 Big 12 Championship Game. Since the conference was formed in 1996, OU has won seven championships while all the other teams have combine for eight. OU is the only team to win back-to-back titles (2006-2007) and three-in-a-row (2006-2008).

    Fact: The Sooners win a conference title nearly every other year.
    Oklahoma won its first conference championship in 1915 and has since tacked on another 42. In other words, the Sooners average a conference title nearly every two seasons. That's precisely the pace Bob Stoops' teams have been on in recent years with Big 12 Conference crowns in 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2002 and 2000.

    Fact: Oklahoma is No. 4 in the nation in players selected in the NFL Draft.
    OU has supplied 346 players all-time in the NFL Draft. Forty-two of those players were taken in the first round including three overall No. 1 picks (Bradford, Sims, Selmon). With Sam Bradford No. 1, Gerald McCoy No. 3 and Trent Williams No. 4 in 2010, Oklahoma became the first school ever to supply three of the first four NFL Draft picks.

    Fact: OU is recognized for more national titles than any other team since 1936.
    Utilizing the official selectors as recognized by the NCAA since the advent of the Associated Press poll in 1936, Oklahoma has earned national titles in more seasons (16) than any other team. The Sooners are followed in the Top 5 by Notre Dame (15), Ohio State (14), Alabama (12) and Southern Cal (12).
    “It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast or what some coach said in the locker room.” - Barry Switzer

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    Fact: It doesn't suck to be us!
    Sucks to be you!

    just kidding

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    thanx for adding 9 national titles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Maestro View Post
    Oklahoma is the winningest program in what is widely considered the modern era of college football. OU has the most victories and best winning percentage of any team since the end of World War II.
    I see this quoted by Sooners all the time but I've never seen it "widely" written about or quoted except for on OU websites. Why is 1950 the barometer in your minds besides the fact that this is when OU started winning? Was the forward pass common then? No. Was the equipment modern (helmets in particular)? No. Were there scholarship limits to even the playing field? No.

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    I've actually heard it several times in national sports media when they have spoke of the post-WWII era in college football.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Herr Scholz View Post
    I see this quoted by Sooners all the time but I've never seen it "widely" written about or quoted except for on OU websites.
    If you prefer, we can stop quoting "1950" for us and quote "5-7" for you instead.

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    If any of you have a link, I'd appreciate it. I've never heard this in the sports media nor have I read it. And I watch and read about sports a lot. To me it just seems like a convenient thing for Sooners to say because it makes their post WWII wins look good and diminishes the time before that. But I will stand corrected if wrong.

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    Herr, it is because that is when we won our first national title...DUH!!!

    Hey, any thread that gets Herr to show up is solid.

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    Hey, Maestro. Yeah, it sounds to me like when our aggies are saying they've won 3 of the last 5 instead of saying they've lost 2 of the last 3.

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    If you look at the very modern era of UT football Texas is 5-7 going back to 2010.
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    Actually, I've usually heard the national media to use the advent of the AP poll in 1936 as the 'modern era' but I think OU is still the winningest program if you go back to 1936 as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herr Scholz View Post
    I see this quoted by Sooners all the time but I've never seen it "widely" written about or quoted except for on OU websites. Why is 1950 the barometer in your minds besides the fact that this is when OU started winning? Was the forward pass common then? No. Was the equipment modern (helmets in particular)? No. Were there scholarship limits to even the playing field? No.

    1950? Who said anything about 1950 genius?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Herr Scholz View Post
    Keep in mind that Greg Davis knows how to craft an offense around the talent at hand.
    FIFY
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    Quote Originally Posted by 47straight View Post
    1950? Who said anything about 1950 genius?
    Sooners are always talking about post WWII as the modern era. Like the multiple guys right above you (not that any of those are credible sources and they definitely don't constitute that timeframe as "widely considered").

    And Greg Davis has a more recent national title ring than your coaches.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Herr Scholz View Post
    Sooners are always talking about post WWII as the modern era. Like the guy right above you (not that any of those credible sources and they definitely don't constitute that timeframe as "widely considered").

    And Greg Davis has a more recent national title ring than your coaches.
    It doesn't take a genius OC to win a title with Vince Young.

    Hell, even Vince Young could coach Vince Young to a title.
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    Stoops didn't want him as a QB. Which begs the question...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herr Scholz View Post
    Stoops didn't want him as a QB. Which begs the question...
    Since when has Stoops ever had a running quarterback? Wrong fit. And VY went 1-2 against OU.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Herr Scholz View Post
    I see this quoted by Sooners all the time but I've never seen it "widely" written about or quoted except for on OU websites. Why is 1950 the barometer in your minds besides the fact that this is when OU started winning? Was the forward pass common then? No. Was the equipment modern (helmets in particular)? No. Were there scholarship limits to even the playing field? No.
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    I believe Stoops just recruited a running QB in Charles Thompson's kid. He just didn't see it in VY. If it was so easy to win a natty with him, it should've been obvious.

    Anyway, 47 is still fixated on Greg Davis. I'm still waiting on a credible source that shows post WWII was the modern era. If it was "widely considered" this, it should be easy, no?

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