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What you don't know about the Longest winning streak in College Football

Last post 09-07-2008 12:08 PM by SoonerOKC. 5 replies.
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  • 08-20-2008 7:52 PM

    What you don't know about the Longest winning streak in College Football

    Okay most College Football fans know that Oklahoma holds the Longest College Football winning streak. A record that has stood for more than 50 years in Division IAA. Just incase.....

    Oklahoma Sooners - 47 games (1953-1957)

    OU lost to Notre Dame, 28-21, in the 1953 season opener and tied Pittsburgh, 7-7, the next week. The streak began with a 19-14 win against archrival Texas in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Oct. 10, 1953.

    Oklahoma rolled through the rest of the 1953 season and capped a 9-1-1 campaign with a 7-0 shutout of Maryland in the Orange Bowl in Miami.

    The Sooners went 10-0 in 1954 and 11-0 in 1955. The 30th-straight win came against Maryland, again in the Orange Bowl, on January 1, 1956, and the Sooners claimed their second National Championship.

    OU won its 35th consecutive game with a 40-0 rout of Notre Dame in South Bend on Oct. 27, 1956. Oklahoma finished the season a perfect 10-0 with the streak at 40 games. The Sooners were again voted National Champions.

    On Nov. 9, 1957, in Columbia, Mo., Oklahoma won its 47th-consecutive game with a 39-14 victory against the Missouri Tigers. The streak came to an end on Nov. 16, 1957, when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish claimed a 7-0 victory at Owen Field in Norman.

    Here's what you don't know....

    Between October 10, 1951 and October 4 1959....(8 years!) Oklahoma Sooners only lost to one team twice...

    ....Notre Dame.

    That's one team in 67 games..OMG! (there was 2 ties...but who is counting?)

     


    SoonerOKC
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  • 08-20-2008 8:32 PM In reply to

    • BigBen
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    Re: What you don't know about the Longest winning streak in College Football

    Collage football doesnt count lol.....


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  • 08-23-2008 5:51 PM In reply to

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    SoonerOKC
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  • 08-23-2008 5:54 PM In reply to

    Re: What you don't know about the Longest winning streak in College Football

     It's not because a team used to win that I have to be happy about them now.

  • 09-07-2008 10:01 AM In reply to

    • Vexed
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    Re: What you don't know about the Longest winning streak in College Football

     And yet 40-57 in the Red River Shootout.

  • 09-07-2008 12:08 PM In reply to

    Re: What you don't know about the Longest winning streak in College Football

    It's 41 - 57....you forgot last year OU 28- TU 21. Plus no real fan counts pre-World War II records. Modern College Football started in the 1945-46 season. Some of those 57 wins were before Oklahoma was even a state. It's pretty even since the 1945-46 season. TU leads 32 to OU's 31.

    We can agree...it's one of the all time great games in College Football.

     

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