When you think of Oklahoma football in historic terms, Barry Switzer’s name will inevitably come up. And deservedly so, because he is the living patriarch of Sooner football.
Switzer is not the winningest Oklahoma coach in terms of wins — he won 157 games at OU — but he owns the best winning percentage (.837) of any Sooner head coach.
In 16 seasons, from 1973 to 1988, Switzer’s Oklahoma teams won three national championships, including back-to-back years in 1974 and 1975, and 14 Big Eight championships (eight of them outright). His teams never finished lower than second place in the conference standings.