The Sooners’ 47-game win streak, during the Bud Wilkinson coaching era, covered more than 1,500 days and included three consecutive undefeated seasons and two national championships.
The Washington Huskies won 40 consecutive games back in the early years of the 20th century (1908-1914), and USC and the University of Miami (Florida) put together win streaks of 34 games at the beginning of the present century.
It was the Oklahoma teams of the 1950s that put the OU on the national map and established the Sooners as one of the elite teams in college football, a distinction that still rings true today, six decades later.