1955 Oklahoma Sooners football team


The 1955 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1955 college football season, the 61st season of Sooner football. Led by ninth-year head coach Bud Wilkinson, they played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma, and were members of the Big Seven Conference.
Oklahoma opened the season ranked third in the polls, and were led on offense by quarterback Jimmy Harris. The Sooners finished the regular season 10–0, while winning their tenth consecutive Big 7 title and their 16th conference title overall.
They were invited to the Orange Bowl in Miami on January 2, where they defeated the Maryland Terrapins trailing by six at halftime, Oklahoma outscored Maryland 20–0 in the second The Sooners claimed their second national championship and continued their record-setting winning streak, which was now at thirty games. It continued for nearly two more seasons, until stopped at 47 in

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