Those classes combined to form the 2008 Oklahoma team that many consider to be the best offense in the history of college football. The Sooners finished that season just a DeMarco Murray injury and/or a couple of play-action pass calls on the goal line away from a national championship (but that’s another story for another time).
The Sooners fell off in recruiting after 2007, signing only one top 10 class over the next eight years. That’s not to say there wasn’t success during that period. There were three more Big 12 titles and six more 10-win seasons, but after a disastrous finish to the 2014 season by Oklahoma standards, there was little denying that things needed to change going into the 2015 season.