Oklahoma football: 5 best seasons in Sooners history, ranked

2. 1955 Oklahoma football season

Final Record: 11-0 | Finish: National Champions (def. Maryland in Orange Bowl, 20-6)

Full disclosure, things got a bit murky when trying to define the greatest Oklahoma football seasons when you looked at their back-to-back National Championships in 1955 and 1956. Both of those seasons were at the heart of a historic 47-game winning streak under Bud Wilkinson and seemingly bleed together. However, I felt compelled to pick one of the two and thus landed on the 1955 season as the superior one in the pair. But in truth, both could be included in this list for how dominant the Sooners were.

In an era of dominance in Norman, this iteration of the Sooners was perhaps the most dominant. With Jerry Tubbs playing as a two-way star for Oklahoma and with Tommy McDonald leading the way with an unreal 715 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns in that era, this team was downright unstoppable. And they showed it virtually every week no matter the level of competition that they were up against.

After a narrow season-opening win against North Carolina, 13-6, the Sooners never had an outcome in question. They won the rest of their games by double digits, including six of their 11 victories coming by 30 or more points. While they didn’t make it a seventh in the Orange Bowl against the Maryland Terrapins, they were still an unstoppable force with the title hanging in the balance as they owned the turtle to the tune of a 20-6 victory.

Whenever you have a team that not only goes undefeated but looks in a different class of everyone they played, it’s hard not to have them at least at No. 2 on this type of list.