In the next few weeks, traditionally after the calendar turns to August, college football top-25 preseason polls will be issued by the Associated Press, the Coaches Poll and Sports Illustrated. Oklahoma football has been permanent fixture in the preseason top-25 rankings throughout the 2000s.
In fact, only Ohio State (66) has made more appearances in the AP college football preseason top 25 that OU (64) since the AP poll was introduced in 1950.
Most of the Sooners’ preseason rankings in the two major college football polls (AP and Coaches Poll) over the past two decades have been top-10 placements.