Bosworth was a two-time consensus All-American at OU and two-time winner of the Butkus Award as the top linebacker in college football. The player known as “The Boz,” played for Barry Switzer at Oklahoma from 1984-86 and was a member of the Sooners’ 1985 national championship team.
Aside from his tenacious demeanor on the football field, Bosworth was also embroiled in quite a bit of controversy at the end of his college career. After he was suspended by the NCAA for steroid use and was forced to sit out Oklahoma’s 1987 Orange Bowl game against Arkansas.
Bosworth appeared on the sidelines at the 1987 Orange Bowl game wearing a t-shirt bearing the inscription: “National Communists Against Athletics,” an obvious derogatory message slamming the NCAA.