Stoops is beginning his 18th season at Oklahoma. Other than Bill Snyder, who Stoops coached with and for in his college coaching career, the Sooner head coach and Kirk Ferentz at Iowa, are the longest active head coaches at the same institution in college football.
Both Stoops and Ferentz have been at their respective schools for 17 seasons and both coached at Iowa in the 1980s, along with K-State’s Snyder, as part of the Hayden Fry coaching tree.
Snyder has been the head coach at Kansas State for 24 seasons, but those 24 seasons are broken into two separate stints: one for 17 seasons (1989-2005) and another from 2009 to the present.