Oklahoma won a Big Eight championship under head coach Chuck Fairbanks in 1968, with a 6-1 conference record and 7-4 overall, but the very next season, in 1969, the Sooners suffered three of their four overall losses against Big Eight foes and finished in fourth place in the league.
A 6-4 season record would be considered a good year by many college teams, but not so at Oklahoma, whose 652 wins and .767 winning percentage since 1946 is the best in NCAA Division I football. Since the end of World War II, considered the modern era of college football, the Sooners have lost six or more games in a season just 10 times in 73 seasons, and five of those seasons fell between 1994 and 1998 under three different head coaches.