Best Wins of the Bob Stoops Era Tournament: Round 3

Image of Stoops via Tulsa World

Early this spring, I started thinking about going through all of Bob Stoops’ wins. My desire was to find out what fans really thought were the best wins of the Stoops era. While there is a fair argument to be made that some wins stand far above others, I still wanted to see how the wins would match up. The morning of June 7th, I was working on going through all those wins again for the first time in about a month. And then, several hours later… OU had a new head coach. Now, it seems even more relevant to back through the top wins of Stoops’ career.

My goal with this is twofold. One goal is to determine the greatest wins of the Stoops era. The other goal, and just as important, is to encourage all fans (and myself) to take a journey back through Stoops’ illustrious career and relive some great Sooner Magic moments they may have forgotten. And to clarify “greatest wins,” this can mean whatever you want it to. Trophies, bowls, conference championships, rivalries, highly-ranked opponents, blowouts, great single plays – whatever you wish to classify “greatest” as.

To allow an easy way to go through the wins, I have created a bracket, in which different wins will go up against each other. Then, everyone can vote on the wins for a few days; whichever win gets more votes will move onto the next round. In building the bracket, I did have to stop at a certain amount of wins, so some of my favorites (and possibly yours) didn’t make the list. That’s the pleasant downside to winning as many games as Bob Stoops did. I also randomized the slots as much as possible.

Bracket for Round 3

For consistency, I made the year for each game the season it happened in, not the calendar year. For example, the Sugar Bowl OU played in against Auburn this January is labelled “OU vs. Auburn 2016.”

As I noted above, I do want this to be a task that gets people remembering games they may have forgotten. As such, I included the Sooner Sports game recap links for all games below. Unless you vividly remember the game, try to give it a quick look. Hopefully, this limit picking a game just because the other one isn’t fresh in your mind. (I recommend opening the game links in a new tab). After you’ve caught up on the wins, vote for which of the two you think was the better win.

This is Round 3 of the tournament. (You can find Round 1 here: TFB: Bob Stoops Tourney Round 1 and Round 2 here: TFB: Bob Stoops Tourney Round 2). The closest game in Round 1 was a 65% to 35% result, while the closest in Round 2 was a 55% to 45% result. I expect to see many of the games be very close as we go on. Voting will end Sunday at 3:00 pm (CT). Monday, I will post the results with an updated bracket. Then Friday, we’ll do this again for Round 4. We’ll continue that process each week until we have one win left. Let the voting begin!

(Please vote! No login is necessary, just a click of the mouse).

Game 25

OU Missouri 2008 vs OU FSU 2000

Which win was better?

  • OU vs. FSU 2000 (98%, 842 Votes)

  • OU vs. Missouri 2008 (2%, 17 Votes)

Total Voters: 859

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Game 26

OU Tennessee 2015 vs OU TTU 2008

Which win was better?

  • OU vs. Texas Tech 2008 (62%, 530 Votes)

  • OU vs. Tennessee 2015 (38%, 322 Votes)

Total Voters: 852

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Game 27

OU Texas 2000 vs OU Nebraska 2000

Which win was better?

  • OU vs. Nebraska 2000 (73%, 616 Votes)

  • OU vs. Texas 2000 (27%, 227 Votes)

Total Voters: 843

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Game 28

OU KSU 2000 (2) vs OU Alabama 2013

Which win was better?

  • OU vs. Bama 2013 (72%, 612 Votes)

  • OU vs. KSU 2000 (2) (28%, 239 Votes)

Total Voters: 851

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