The 50-yd line at Owen Field, inside Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, where, since World War II’s end the Sooners have won 343 games and outscored opponents by an average of three touchdowns (21 pts) per game. Source: WBUR.

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How a sportswriter predicted Oklahoma to dominate a century

When Oklahoma plays LSU in the College Football Playoff Semifinal on December 28th, it will be the Sooners’ fourth trip to the CFP in five years. Even though they haven’t won any of those games, few people realize that Oklahoma — not Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame, anyone — is the winningest college football program since World War II, with 669 victories (a whopping 40 more than Alabama) and a .759 winning percentage (.006 more than Ohio State).

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What fewer people know is that one of America’s greatest sportswriters accurately predicted this level of consistent dominance over six decades ago.

The Nov. 18, 1957 cover of Sports Illustrated — then only three years old and establishing itself as a respected voice — read, “WHY OKLAHOMA IS UNBEATABLE”. Straightforward, clearly, perhaps because the feature story’s headline was anything but…

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The piece, written by Tex Maule, compared the University of Oklahoma’s football team to the likes of…