The Sooners laid claim to their 11th conference championship, and third in succession, since the Big 12 was formed back in 1996, and are headed to the College Football Playoff for the second time in the four seasons since the new national championship format was established in 2014.
On Saturday, Baker Mayfield became the sixth Oklahoma player, and third Sooner quarterback, to win the Heisman Trophy, presented every year for the past 83 seasons to college football’s most outstanding player.
It was 18 seasons before Oklahoma had its first Heisman recipient. Billy Vessels was one of many great Sooner All-Americans who played under legendary head coach Bud Wilkinson, but he was the only one to win the Heisman Trophy, which he did his senior year in 1952.