The Sooners played their first game of varsity football in 1895, taking on a town team from Oklahoma City. It wasn’t much of a game, really, as the group of Oklahoma City players hung a 34-0 defeat on the upstart collegians from Norman.
Since then, the University of Oklahoma has played 1,274 games, winning 896 of them, the eighth most in college football, with 325 losses and 53 games ending in a tie.
The Sooners’ 896 all-time wins are 57 fewer than Michigan, the winningest college program with 953 wins. The Wolverines, however, played their first collegiate game 16 years earlier than Oklahoma.