When a team in college softball is ahead by eight or more runs after five innings, the game is ended two innings early. The No. 1-ranked Sooners have been in that situation 23 times this season — all on the winning side.
There is no way of telling whether that is a record number of wins by run rule or is on pace to become one because neither the NCAA nor OU keep official records on that statistic. By comparison, however, the 23 wins the Sooners have achieved by that means exceeds the 16 they totaled in each of their national championship seasons in 2016 and 2017 and is just one shy of the 24 they achieved in 62 games in 2015.