The Sooners are deservedly viewed as one of college football’s elite brands. Oklahoma has seven championships at the national level, good enough to rank third among all schools since the Associated Press first started recognizing national champions in college football in 1936. Only Alabama (10) and Notre Dame (8) have more over that span of time.
Championships are won on the field by student-athletes classified as amateurs (in the sense that they do not profit monetarily from their services), but the adage “it takes money to make money” as well as win championships) is as true in college football as anywhere else in the capitalist society in which we all live.