1957 Oklahoma Sooners football team

1957 Oklahoma Sooners football
Big 7 champion
Orange Bowl champion
Orange Bowl, W 48–21 vs. Duke
ConferenceBig Seven Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 4
APNo. 4
Record10–1 (6–0 Big 7)
Head coach
Captains
Home stadiumOklahoma Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1956
1958 →
1957 Big Seven Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Oklahoma $ 6 0 0 10 1 0
Kansas 4 2 0 5 4 1
Missouri 3 3 0 5 4 1
Colorado 3 3 0 6 3 1
Iowa State 2 4 0 4 5 1
Kansas State 2 4 0 3 6 1
Nebraska 1 5 0 1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1957 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma during the 1957 college football season. They played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma, and were members of the Big Seven Conference. They were two-time defending national champions (1955, 1956), led by head coach Bud Wilkinson, in his eleventh season.

The Sooners won their first seven games in 1957, but were upset at home by unranked Notre Dame on November 16, stopping Oklahoma's record-breaking win streak at 47 games.[1] It was their only loss of the season; they finished fourth in both final polls in early December,[2][3] and won the Orange Bowl in January.[4]

  1. ^ "Irish snap Sooners' string, 7-0". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. November 17, 1957. p. 1C.
  2. ^ "Coaches rate Buckeyes tops in final poll". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). UPI. December 2, 1957. p. 18.
  3. ^ "Auburn tops final poll; Badgers 19th". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. December 3, 1957. p. 4, part 2.
  4. ^ "Sooners cash in on six mistakes; crush Duke, 48-21". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. January 2, 1958. p. 3, part 2.