After all, Oklahoma won three national championships and 10 conference championships in the decade of the ’50s, and along the way produced winning streaks of 31 and 47 games, the latter of which still stands as an NCAA record. So when thinking about Wilkinson and his best Oklahoma teams, it would seem logical to look first at the great Sooners teams from 1950 to 1956, and you could even stretch it a bit further to 1957 and ’58.
Only, by following that line of logic you would be overlooking perhaps the best of all the Oklahoma teams who played for Wilkinson, the legendary head coach who is credited more than anybody for transforming Oklahoma football into a national power.