TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 STOOPS STEERS SOONERS TO SUCCESS CHAPTER 2 A SMALL START 4 10 CHAPTER 3 WILKINSON'S WINNING WAYS 16 CHAPTER 4 SWITZER'S SOONERS 24 CHAPTER 5 ONWARD OKLAHOMA 32 TIMELINE QUICK STATS QUOTES ANECDOTES GLOSSARY MORE INFORMATION ONLINE RESOURCES INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR 42 44 45 46 47 47 48 48
4 CHAPTER 1 STOOPS STEERS SOONERS TO SUCCESS The Oklahoma Sooners were no strangers to being at the top of the college football world But times were tough during the 1990s in Norman Oklahoma The Sooners had just five winning seasons in that 10 year span They played in only four bowl games And they won just two But then Bob Stoops was hired as head coach in 1999. By the end of his second season in Norman he had the Sooners playing for their seventh national championship Oklahoma was set to face the second ranked Florida State Seminoles in the Orange Bowl in Miami Florida on January 3 2001 The Seminoles were a formidable opponent They had won the national championship the year before And they had been ranked in the top four in the final Associated Press AP Poll 14 years in Oklahoma linebacker Torrance Marshall returns an interception for a touchdown during a 2000 win against Texas A M
