Year: | 1954 |
Team: | Oklahoma Sooners |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Big Seven Conference |
Short Conf: | Big 7 |
Coachrank: | 3 |
Aprank: | 3 |
Record: | 10–0 |
Conf Record: | 6–0 |
Head Coach: | Bud Wilkinson |
Hc Year: | 8th |
Captain: | Gene Calame |
Captain2: | Gene Mears |
Stadium: | Oklahoma Memorial Stadium |
Champion: | Big 7 champion |
The 1954 Oklahoma Sooners football team (variously "Oklahoma", "OU", or the "Sooners") represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1954 college football season, the sixtieth season of Sooner football. Led by eighth-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.
The Sooners went undefeated and were ranked third in both final polls, released in late November at the end of the regular season. Because of a conference "no-repeat" rule, Oklahoma did not play in a bowl game.[1] [2] Unranked runner-up Nebraska was invited to the and was defeated
See also: 1954 NCAA football rankings.
The following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.[4]
1 | 2 | Max Boydston | End | Chicago Cardinals | |
1 | 13 | Kurt Burris | Center | Cleveland Browns | |
3 | 29 | Buddy Leake | Back | Green Bay Packers | |
16 | 182 | Bob Herndon | Back | Chicago Cardinals | |
18 | 217 | Steve Champlin | Tackle | Cleveland Browns | |
22 | 263 | Carl Allison | Back | Detroit Lions |