MANHATTAN, KS - OCTOBER 26: A general view of a Oklahoma Sooners drum head before a game against the Kansas State Wildcats at Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium on October 26, 2019 in Manhattan, Kansas. (Photo by Peter G. Aiken/Getty Images)
In 1963, Bud Wilkinson’s final season coaching Oklahoma football, the Sooners finished with a respectable 8-2 record and were 6-1 in the Big Eight.
That was the third time in the past four seasons that Oklahoma failed to win the Big Eight championship after taking home the the conference trophy 13 straight years. The Sooners’ league dominance in football extended all 10 years of the 1950s.