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The Sooners claim seven national championships. They have also recorded 42 total conference championships, twelve undefeated, untied seasons and the longest winning streak in Division I FBS history with 47 straight victories. The Oklahoma football program is the most successful program of the modern era (post–World War II) with 524 wins and a winning percentage of .761 since 1945 and with 779 wins, ranks fourth all-time in win–loss records in the NCAA.

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  • List of Oklahoma Sooners football seasons
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  • The Sooners claim seven national championships. They have also recorded 42 total conference championships, twelve undefeated, untied seasons and the longest winning streak in Division I FBS history with 47 straight victories. The Oklahoma football program is the most successful program of the modern era (post–World War II) with 524 wins and a winning percentage of .761 since 1945 and with 779 wins, ranks fourth all-time in win–loss records in the NCAA.
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  • The Sooners claim seven national championships. They have also recorded 42 total conference championships, twelve undefeated, untied seasons and the longest winning streak in Division I FBS history with 47 straight victories. The Oklahoma football program is the most successful program of the modern era (post–World War II) with 524 wins and a winning percentage of .761 since 1945 and with 779 wins, ranks fourth all-time in win–loss records in the NCAA. Football was introduced to the university by John A. Harts in 1895. Harts was a student from Kansas who had played the game in his home state. The university had its first paid coach in Vernon L. Parrington, who led the Sooners to a record of nine wins, one loss, and two ties over four seasons. Bennie Owen brought Oklahoma to the national stage during his 22-year tenure as head coach. He retired with a 122–54–16 record, including four seasons in which the team went unbeaten. During Owen's tenure, Oklahoma became a charter member of the Southwest Conference, in which they remained for five years before leaving to join the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The MVIAA conference would later transform into the Big Six, Big Seven, and finally the Big Eight Conference. In 1947, Oklahoma promoted Bud Wilkinson, then an assistant coach, to head coach. Wilkinson led the Sooners to national championships in 1950, 1955, and 1956, as well as a stretch of 47 consecutive victories that began in 1953 and ended in 1957. Wilkinson's tenure included a streak of 13 consecutive conference championships (in addition to one by his predecessor). Oklahoma continued to perform well after Wilkinson left, but only returned to the national title picture following the hiring of Barry Switzer in 1973. Switzer began similarly to Wilkinson, with eight consecutive conference championships in addition to national championships in 1974 and 1975. Switzer added Oklahoma's sixth national championship in 1985. After a decline that lasted more than a decade, Oklahoma again won the national championship in 2000, after coach Bob Stoops had been hired the previous year. By then Oklahoma had joined a new conference that combined the Big Eight Conference and four Texas schools of the Southwest Conference. Stoops has won six conference championships, while no other team in the Big 12 has more than two. Through the 2010 season, Oklahoma has compiled an overall record of 811 wins, 304 losses, and 53 ties. The Sooners have won 43 conference championships and have appeared in 44 bowl games, most recently in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl.
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