Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. Cal Ripken’s 2,632 consecutive-games streak. Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game. UCLA’s seven consecutive college basketball national championships and 10 in 12 years.
You can add Oklahoma’s epic 47-game winning streak to that memorable list of indelible accomplishments.
The Sooners’ 1953 season began with a 28-21 loss at home to then No. 1-ranked Notre Dame. That was followed by a 7-7 tie at Pittsburgh the next weekend. Oklahoma was ranked sixth in the country in the Associated Press preseason poll to start the 1953 season, but had dropped to 16th by the time the third game rolled around, the annual Red River battle royal against Texas.