Oklahoma 2018 Football Results: vs Florida Atlantic, won, 63-14; vs UCLA, won, 49-21; at Iowa State, won, 37-27; vs Army, won, 28-21; vs Baylor, won, 66-33; vs Texas (Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas), lost, 48-45; at TCU, won, 52-27; vs Kansas State, won, 51-14; at Texas Tech, won, 51-46; vs Oklahoma State, won 48-47; vs Kansas, won, 55-40; at West Virginia, won, 59-56; vs Texas (Big 12 Championship game, AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas),, won, 39-27; vs Alabama (Orange Bowl, College Football Playoff Semifinal game, Miami, Florida), lost, 45-34.
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| Lincoln Riley |
After their 34-31, comeback victory over Baylor in Waco on Saturday, November 16, the Sooners are in first place in the Big 12 with a 9-1 record. They likely will be in the Big 12 Championship Game, which will be played in AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday, December 7.
The Sooners are seeking their fifth consecutive Big 12 championship.
In addition to Baylor, Oklahoma this season has beaten Houston, South Dakota, UCLA, Texas Tech, Kansas, Texas, West Virginia and Iowa State. The Sooners have lost to Kansas State.
When the Sooners defeated Texas Tech, on September 28, Oklahoma became the sixth NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision team to win 900 games.
Against Baylor, Oklahoma won the game by coming back from being down 28-3 at one point in the game, and being behind at halftime, 31-10. The 25-point comeback was the biggest comeback victory in Oklahoma football history.
Leading the Sooners is one-and-done quarterback Jalen Hurts, a graduate transfer from the University of Alabama.
Against Baylor, Hurts accounted for 411 yards of offense; 297 yards through the air, 114 on the ground. His performance earned him the Big 12 Offensive Play of the Week honors and he was named the Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week.
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| Jalen Hurts |
Hurts is averaging 402 yards of total offense per game; 304 yards per game passing, and 98 yards per game rushing.
He has completed 181 of 248 passes, with 28 touchdowns and only five interceptions. He has 15 rushing touchdowns.
Hurts is a semifinalist for the Maxwell Award for the Collegiate Player of the Year, a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award, and a finalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
Offensively, Oklahoma is first in the Big 12 in scoring (47 points a game), total offense (581 yards per game) and passing (334 yards per game), and second in the conference in rushing (247 yards per game).
Redshirt sophomore running back Kennedy Brooks (#26), 5-11, 216 pounds, is seventh in the conference in rushing. He has run for 608 yards, an average of 68 yards per game.
Junior receiver CeeDee Lamb (#2), 6-2, 189 pounds, who did not play against Baylor for undisclosed medical issues and is questionable for the November 23 game against TCU, is second in the Big 12 in receiving. He has caught 44 passes for 983 yards, an average of 109 receiving yards per game. He is averaging 22.3 yards per catch. He has scored 13 touchdowns and has a long reception of 71 yards.
Lamb, who was a consensus first-team midseason All-American, is a semifinalist for the Maxwell Award for the Collegiate Player of the Year, and also a semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award, given to the country's best collegiate receiver.
Charleston Rambo (#14) is a 6-1, 180-pound redshirt sophomore receiver who is ninth in the conference in receiving. He is averaging 19.5 yards per reception and 62 receiving yards per game. He has caught five touchdown passes and has a long catch of 74 yards.
Defensively, Oklahoma is fourth in the Big 12 in scoring defense, second in total defense, fourth in rushing defense and second in passing defense. Sooners are allowing 25.6 points per game, 350 total yards per game, 142 rushing yards per game and 208 passing yards per game.
The Sooners have 26 sacks, which ranks third in the conference, and five interceptions, which ranks ninth in the Big 12.
Oklahoma defensive coordinator Alex Grinch has been nominated for the Broyles Award, which annually is awarded to college football's top coordinator.
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| Kenneth Murray |
Sophomore safety Delarrin Turner-Yell (#32), 5-10, 192 pounds, has 58 tackles, with two tackles for loss.
Pat Fields (#10) is a 5-11, 192-pound sophomore safety. He has 45 tackles, five tackles for loss and two sacks.
Sophomore defensive lineman Ronnie Perkins (#7), 6-3, 251 pounds, has 12 tackles for loss and six sacks.
Redshirt senior defensive lineman Neville Gallimore (#90), 6-2, 302 pounds, and redshirt freshman defensive lineman Jalen Redmond (#31) each have three sacks. Gallimore is a semifinalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award.
Redshirt freshman outside linebacker Nik Bonitto (#35), sophomore defensive back Jaden Davis (#4), junior cornerback Tre Brown (#6) and redshirt sophomore linebacker Ryan Jones (#21) all have one interception each.
Oklahoma's punter is Reeves Mundschau (#46). He is averaging 43 yards a punt. He has a long punt of 67 yards and he has not had a punt blocked.
Redshirt freshman Gabe Brkick (#47) is the primary field goal kicker. He is 12-of-12, with a long field goal of 50 yards. He has not had a field goal blocked. He is a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award, as is TCU field goal kicker Jonathan Song.
The head coach is Lincoln Riley, who is in his third year as the program's leader. Riley took over when Bob Stoops retired shortly before the beginning of the 2017 season, after 17 years of leading the Sooners.
Oklahoma is the four-time defending Big 12 conference champion, having won the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Big 12 Conference championships. Oklahoma beat TCU, 41-17, to win the 2017 Big 12 Conference Championship, in Lincoln Riley's first year as OU's head football coach.
Oklahoma has had one of the most successful football programs since World War II. The Sooners have the most wins and the highest winning percentage since 1945. The program has seven national championships: 1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985 and 2000. In addition, the NCAA recognizes 10 additional national titles for Oklahoma in the 1915, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1967, 1973, 1978, 1980, 1986 and 2003 seasons, for a total of 17 national titles in football.
Oklahoma has won 48 conference championships, including 14 in a row between 1946 and 1959. Since 2000, OU has won outright or shared the Big 12 Conference championship 12 times.
The Sooners became the sixth NCAA FBS team to win 900 games when they defeated Texas Tech on September 28, 2019.
The Sooners have had 162 All-Americans and seven Heisman-Trophy winners (Billy Vessels in 1952, Steve Owens in 1969, Billy Sims in 1978, Jason White in 2003, Sam Bradford in 2008, Baker Mayfield in 2017 and Kyler Murray in 2018).
The school has had 23 members (five coaches and 18 players) inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and holds the record for the longest winning streak in Division I history with 47 straight victories between 1953 and 1957.
Oklahoma is the only program that has had four coaches with 100 or more wins, including Stoops, whose record is 180-48.
OU was the only school to participate in both the football and basketball national championships in the same year (1988), until the 2006 season, when Ohio State and Florida were in each, with Florida winning both national championships.
The University of Oklahoma has had a long and bitter rivalry with the University of Texas since 1900. It is known as the Red River Shootout or Red River Rivalry and is played on the second weekend of the Texas State Fair, in the Cotton Bowl. The rivalry has been rated the third-best in college football, behind Michigan-Ohio State and Army-Navy. Texas leads the series, 62-47-5. Oklahoma won the 2019 game, 34-27, on October 12, during the State Fair of Texas.
There are three Red River Shootout Trophies that are exchanged based on the outcome of the game. The best known is the Golden Hat, which is, appropriately, a gold 10-gallon hat. The trophy is kept by the winning school's athletic department until the next year. A newer trophy, the Red River Rivalry trophy, has been exchanged between the two student governments since 2003. The governor of Texas and the governor of Oklahoma also exchange the Governors' trophy.
Another annual tradition is the running of game balls by the schools' Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs. Each school's ROTC program uses a relay running system to run one game ball all the way from their respective campus to Dallas. Once there, they participate against each other in a football scrimmage, with the winner taking home a rivalry trophy and bragging rights.
Oklahoma also has a long-standing rivalry with Oklahoma State. Known as the Bedlam Series, it encompasses all the athletic contests between the two universities with the winner receiving the Bedlam Bell. Another major historic rival is the University of Nebraska, which was part of the Big Eight Conference with Oklahoma and later joined with Oklahoma and other schools in the formation of the Big 12 Conference.
Oklahoma has had 22 head coaches in its 96-year football history that has encompassed more than 1,100 games. Bennie Owen is the all-time leader in games coaches. Barry Switzer is the all-time leader in winning percentage. Stoops is the leader in wins.
Bud Wilkinson coached Oklahoma from 1947 to 1963. In 1950, Wilkinson guided the Sooners to their first national championship. In 1953, The Sooners opened the season with a loss to Notre Dame, then tied Pittsburgh. The Sooners would not lose or tie another game until losing to Notre Dame in November 1957, a steak of 47 consecutive wins over three years. During the streak, the Sooners won national championships in 1955 and 1956. The Sooners won 14 straight conference titles from 1946 to 1959, one under Jim Tatum and 13 under Wilkinson. The Sooners also went undefeated in conference play from November 23, 1946, to October 31, 1959. Their record only was blemished by two ties.
During Wilkinson's tenure, in 1956, Pentice Gautt became the first black football player at the University of Oklahoma. In 1959, Gautt was named the Orange Bowl MVP. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
Chuck Fairbanks was coach of the Sooners from 1967 to 1972. In 1971, Fairbanks' team was ranked #2 when they played top-ranked Nebraska. The Cornhuskers edged Oklahoma, 35-31, in what is referred to as one of the greatest college football games of the century. After the 1972 season, Fairbanks left the university for a position with the NFL's New England Patriots.
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| Barry Switzer statue on Oklahoma Campus |
Barry
Switzer coached Oklahoma from 1973 to 1988, after having been the
Sooners' offensive coordinator. In 1974, Switzer's Sooners finished 11-0
and won the national championship. This was the Sooners' first
undefeated season and national championship since 1956. The Sooners won
another national championship in 1975. Switzer's teams in the 1970s went
a combined 73–7–2 in seven years. Switzer won his third national
championship with the Sooners in 1985.
In 1988, it all came crashing down for Slimy Switzer. His team was placed on probation by the NCAA for violating several rules. In a six-month time frame, there was a shooting and a rape in the athletic dorm on Oklahoma's campus. Switzer's house was robbed with the help of one of his athletes, and an athlete was caught attempting to sell drugs to an undercover agent. The three-year probation included a two-year ban on TV and bowl appearances and a reduction in scholarships from 25 to 18. Nonetheless, the 1988 team established the NCAA Division I single-game record of 768 yards rushing against Kansas State on October 15, 1988, a record that still stands. After the 1988 season, Switzer resigned as head coach.
Bob Stoops, who was 38 at the time, joined the Sooners in 1999, coming from the University of Florida where he was defensive coordinator. In 2000, he led the Sooners to a national championship, with Mark Mangino as his offensive coordinator. After the 2001 season, Mangino left OU to become head coach at Kansas. On January 8, 2009, the Sooners were defeated by the Florida Gators for the BCS Championship at Dolphin Stadium in Miami by a score of 24-14. This was the fourth time that the Sooners were playing for the National Championship under Stoops.
In 1988, it all came crashing down for Slimy Switzer. His team was placed on probation by the NCAA for violating several rules. In a six-month time frame, there was a shooting and a rape in the athletic dorm on Oklahoma's campus. Switzer's house was robbed with the help of one of his athletes, and an athlete was caught attempting to sell drugs to an undercover agent. The three-year probation included a two-year ban on TV and bowl appearances and a reduction in scholarships from 25 to 18. Nonetheless, the 1988 team established the NCAA Division I single-game record of 768 yards rushing against Kansas State on October 15, 1988, a record that still stands. After the 1988 season, Switzer resigned as head coach.
Bob Stoops, who was 38 at the time, joined the Sooners in 1999, coming from the University of Florida where he was defensive coordinator. In 2000, he led the Sooners to a national championship, with Mark Mangino as his offensive coordinator. After the 2001 season, Mangino left OU to become head coach at Kansas. On January 8, 2009, the Sooners were defeated by the Florida Gators for the BCS Championship at Dolphin Stadium in Miami by a score of 24-14. This was the fourth time that the Sooners were playing for the National Championship under Stoops.
Oklahoma Football Stadium:
Oklahoma plays football on campus in Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial
Stadium. Adjacent to the stadium is the Barry Switzer Center, a museum
highlighting the historical success of Oklahoma athletics, as well as a
comprehensive training facility for Oklahoma athletes.
The stadium was formerly called Oklahoma Memorial Stadium but the administration decided to add "Gaylord Family" to recognize the contributions (estimated at over $50 million) made by Edward K. Gaylord and his family over the years. The playing surface is called Owen Field after Bennie Owen, Oklahoma's coach from 1905 to 1926.
The stadium was built in 1923 with an original capacity of 500. The stadium has had a natural grass playing surface for the majority of its existence. The stadium had artificial trust from 1970 to 1994.
In 2016, Owen Field was completely surrounded by seats for the first time in history, due to a major renovation of the south end zone. The $160-million project added 1,800 club seats, 66 loge boxes, 20 regular suites and two party suites. The south end zone enclosure increased the stadium's capacity from 82,112 to 83,489, which makes it one of the country's largest college stadiums and the second largest in the Big 12 Conference.
The seating bowl features an expanded concourse, additional restrooms and concessions and other amenities. Among the most unique features is a pair of open-air fan plazas, one each in the southwest and southeast corners. They each feature a view directly to the game field.
In addition to enclosing the stadium, the south end zone project features a multi-story building that includes a new locker room, coaches' offices, meeting rooms, a massive weight room, a nutrition center, a 70-yard turfed speed and agility area, plus a 24,394-square-foot training room that's nearly triple the size of the previous one. The third floor of the building houses the football offices and the team's video department.
A new video board in the south end zone is approximately 50 feet high and 170 feet wide and has 30 amplifiers, 24 subwoofers and 424,500 watts of power. The arrays are 47 feet tall and stand approximately 130 feet above the field. The video scoreboard sound system is similar to the one at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, home of the San Francisco 49ers and Super Bowl 50.
The stadium was formerly called Oklahoma Memorial Stadium but the administration decided to add "Gaylord Family" to recognize the contributions (estimated at over $50 million) made by Edward K. Gaylord and his family over the years. The playing surface is called Owen Field after Bennie Owen, Oklahoma's coach from 1905 to 1926.
The stadium was built in 1923 with an original capacity of 500. The stadium has had a natural grass playing surface for the majority of its existence. The stadium had artificial trust from 1970 to 1994.
In 2016, Owen Field was completely surrounded by seats for the first time in history, due to a major renovation of the south end zone. The $160-million project added 1,800 club seats, 66 loge boxes, 20 regular suites and two party suites. The south end zone enclosure increased the stadium's capacity from 82,112 to 83,489, which makes it one of the country's largest college stadiums and the second largest in the Big 12 Conference.
The seating bowl features an expanded concourse, additional restrooms and concessions and other amenities. Among the most unique features is a pair of open-air fan plazas, one each in the southwest and southeast corners. They each feature a view directly to the game field.
In addition to enclosing the stadium, the south end zone project features a multi-story building that includes a new locker room, coaches' offices, meeting rooms, a massive weight room, a nutrition center, a 70-yard turfed speed and agility area, plus a 24,394-square-foot training room that's nearly triple the size of the previous one. The third floor of the building houses the football offices and the team's video department.
A new video board in the south end zone is approximately 50 feet high and 170 feet wide and has 30 amplifiers, 24 subwoofers and 424,500 watts of power. The arrays are 47 feet tall and stand approximately 130 feet above the field. The video scoreboard sound system is similar to the one at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, home of the San Francisco 49ers and Super Bowl 50.
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