OU passes Bama
One of the winners from the news that Alabama, pending an appeal, must vacate 21 wins due to NCAA sanctions is the University of Oklahoma.
Why?
Well, Alabama minus 21 wins means that OU leapfrogs Alabama in all-time wins with Alabama’s total dropping to 778. The Sooners have 788 wins and now rank No. 7 in career wins.
That doesn’t mean it will stay that way. Alabama is considering an appeal to the NCAA to recapture its vacated wins. Remember, a couple years ago, OU won an appeal to regain eight wins from the 2005 season, which the NCAA originally took away following Bomar-Gate.
Thanks to its win of that appeal, OU has a chance this season to become the seventh team to record 800 victories. An 11-2 or 12-2 record, which is more than achievable with the amount of talent this team has coming back, would be enough.
Penn State sits at No. 6 with 801 wins, meaning OU has some work to do to catch the Nittany Lions. Michigan, at the top with 872 wins, has remarkably 40 more victories than No. 2 Texas (832).
Here’s a look at the top 10 teams in terms of all-time victories:
1. Michigan, 872
2. Texas, 832
3. Notre Dame, 831
4. Nebraska, 827
5. Ohio St., 808
6. Penn St., 801
7. Oklahoma, 788
8. Alabama, 778
9. Tennessee, 776
10. Southern California, 766
Trivia question: which Big 12 team ranks last in the league and No. 90 overall with 452 all-time victories?
By Jake Trotter
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Good for OU. There’s another milestone that OU didn’t earn on the field.
When is it going to stop. To lend this situation creditability, there
needs to be an * next to Oklahoma explaining how they got placed in the
No.#7 position. How many loss’s do each of these teams have, and how
many season’s did the poll cover for each team that are ranked in the top 10?
Not anything I’ll be bragging about. Having to give up any wins for what they did is pretty cheap if you ask me. As long as we’re still the program with the most wins in the modern era(End of WWII), that’s good enough for me. Not sure about the rest of you, but I wasn’t even a horny thought yet at that time.
Boomer Sooner Baby!!
This doesnt help OU out at all. Alabama will get those wims back. Besides this is nothing to brag about. OU was in this same situation just a few years ago. We all know that Alabama is ahead of OU in overall wins. As an OU fan, this article is a joke, and saying that another programs troubles help OU is an insult to the university, and its football program.
Just because the NCAA says that games that have been won have now become losses does not mean that those games we’re really and truly lost. I am a Bama fan and have great respect for OU because the team as well as the fan base generally has class and carry themselves very well. I read an article yesterday on a UT sight. It was laughable. It was basically suggesting that UT is basically now the winner of a heartbreaker in 2005. I find it ludicrous that this is doled out as a punishment. To me it means nothing editing a piece of paper. It doesn’t change history. I would much rather be told by the NCAA, \you guys didn’t really win those games\, then to have scholarships or post-season play taken away. I think it’s funny; really.
Bama fans,
I dont think many Oklahoma Fans will be bragging about this. I hope we do eventually pass you, but we dont want to do it like this!
I agree with Ben that Alabama will probably appeal and get the wins reinstated. Thats what the NCAA did when OU appealed the 2005 vacated wins.
Insofar as counting, however, the NCAA does count games, but leaves it to the individual schools to tally National Championships.
This really means nothing due to the fact that OU won the games that they won, period. Besides, I think that OU beat Alabama during the period that none of this happened and did not play during this period. For Tennessee, or any other program for that matter, to say that they now win the games played against bama is ludacris! It was text books for Pete’s sake not performance enhancing drugs. The only book that would matter for the win are the play books. Fans that consider this a win for their program when they were strung out on the field is just sad.
BOOMMER SOONER!
Jo Adams: The only place that uses *’s to mark records or achievements is Austin, TX.
I really don’t see any OU fans getting fired up about this. It really isn’t that big of a deal considering the total games played by each school varies a good bit. I don’t know the stats, but I would think winning percentage would be a better mark to compare the schools by. It might end up that they are the same order, I don’t know without looking.
The NCAA will give ‘Bama back their wins, if for nothing else, to justify taking it easy on USC when it “comes down” on them.
Better question would be how many years if football are each of these all time records recorded over?