It would be impossible to talk about the great college football
teams and not include the mind-boggling exploits of Bud Wilkinson
and his great Oklahoma Sooners teams. In his seventeen years as the
Sooners' head coach, Wilkinson amassed a 145-29-4 record. Included
in that span were separate winning streaks of 31 and 47 games,
three national titles, four undefeated seasons, and thirteen
consecutive conference championships. His career .826 winning
percentage surpassed that of other coaching legends whose careers
overlapped his, such as Woody Hayes and Paul "Bear" Bryant.
It wasn't just the steady stream of victories and titles,
however, that distinguished Wilkinson in a profession dominated by
Type-A personalities and Xs-and-Os savants. Tall, blond, handsome,
charming, and soft-spoken, Wilkinson was well-liked and would have
fit well into today's media-driven model of the "successful coach."
A star quarterback at the University. of Minnesota, Wilkinson
emerged as a sports star who wasn't just an athlete. He earned a
master's degree in English from Syracuse University and later
pioneered the role of
football-coach-turned-expert-television-analyst, beginning in the
early fifties with his own coach's show at Oklahoma. He later
achieved a different kind of notoriety in the sixties and seventies
as a network-television commentator. Along the way, he also took a
foray into politics and a brief return to coaching in the late
seventies with the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals.
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