The 2000 Sooners had a laundry list of good teams they beat on their way to the title, but to me, beating this Kansas State team, a legit Top 10 team, on the road twice in the same season was the biggest feather in their cap. I know this wasn't technically a "road" game but K-State at Arrowhead in those days may as well have been.
Absolutely! I see this team get rated as one of the worst national champions of the 21st century, but that doesn’t hold water to me. They beat a legit K State team that was probably the best team in 98. Then the beat a Nebraska team who legitimately was probably the first or second best team in 99. What they did in October is one of the greatest runs in college football history!
@@adamsanders2270 The Sooners had a very difficult schedule and they were not favored in many of their games. The Big XII placed three teams in the top 10 in the final poll, and there would have been four if Texas had been able to overcome Oregon. People always argue that OU would not have been able to beat Miami, but they forget that the landscape was different in 2000: Oklahoma had a GREAT defense and the Big XII was still a dominant conference. OU beat so many strong teams as a clear underdog in 2000 that I have no doubt the Sooners would have beaten Miami too. In fact, I doubt Miami would have even been able to beat Kansas State. The only problem that OU had at the end of the season was that Josh Heupel was supposedly not 100%. If Heupel had operated at his peak capacity all season, I don't think any of OU's games aside from the bitter A&M affair would have been close.
I was at this game in the north end zone. Epic game I remember sitting right by Rocky’s sister. She was taking shots lol 😆 BOOMER SOONER BABY! Last year’s OU Texas Big12 championship was epic as well!!
My word I will never forget this game! My hometown was playing in a high school football state semifinal for the first time in decades. I wanted to go, but my dad and I decided we just couldn’t miss this game, so we stayed home and watched it! When Duncan hit that Field goal we went crazy! What a night!
They were an awesome team! Spread offense, but legitimately played from a defensive mentality. Starters playing on special teams. They were so much fun to watch!
My goodness, OU's offense was running on mere fumes at the end of their fabled 2000 run. A week after putting up 10 offensive points vs 3-8 Oklahoma State, this mess. They scored 10 first half points on four possessions starting inside KSU 35. Couldn't run a yard. Josh's arm looked like rubber. 1/5 on 3rd and a yard, but getting stopped on 4th and 1. (Didn't help Josh running out of bounds late cost OU that last KSU TD too.) But it simply doesn't matter. They won it all and deserved it. Sometimes things are just magical.
I moved to Norman the year that Bob Stoops was hired. We went to the Independent Bowl my first introduction to college football my first love was the Sooners until all my bandwagon friends liked them.. I been a cornhusker fan an a closet OU fan since!! 😂😂😂
16 year old kid watching this game in Tulsa ok on Yale Street at the University bar lol . I rememeber walking home a few blocks away yelling Boomer Sooner all the way home drunk off my ass! Amazing I wasn't arrested. Maybe the police were celebrating to
My goodness, if anyone wonders why the Big XII was happy to get rid of their Championship Game after 2010, this is but one exhibit. In the first 15 versions, the conference had a team contending for the National Championship that lost the game or came darn close seven times (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, and 2009).
2007 Big 12 Champions Oklahoma lost in the Fiesta Bowl to West Virginia. I think LSU won it that year. OU wouldve gone to the title game, but Sam Bradford suffered a concussion at Texas Tech
I'm a OU fan, and the reason why? Is because the BCS was shit back then. I remember in 2001 when Nebraska got the shit kicked out of them by Miami. We lost to Nebraska earlier that year but If OU had beaten OSU? and regardless of the rematch between OU and Nebraska in the Big 12 championship game, they would have replayed each other again in the National Championship game. Back then the Big 12 was the number 1 conference by far as far as the BCS was concerned.
Oklahoma survived and advanced to the BCS Championship game in Miami, FL ⁉🟪🏟🏈🌇What if OU lost the Big XII Championship ?? A rematch of UMiami vs. Washington in BCS 'ship ?? Florida State vs. Washington ?? rematch of UMiami vs. Florida State ?? Oklahoma had a very good defense, and Oklahoma was the best team for the 2000 season..Oklahoma avoided playing UMiami..UMiami was the hottest team the second half of the season..UMiami finished 12-1..OU finished 13-0..🤔
