Twenty-five years into the millennium and lists abound about the best such-and-such over the first quarter-century.
One of the most intriguing such lists – when it comes to college football, anyway – is CBS Sports’ look at some of the game’s biggest coaching rivalries. Different, in part, from team rivalries, a coaching rivalry can exist with animosity even when one of the coaches changes schools.
For the Oklahoma man on the list, though, he certainly didn’t.
Former OU head coach Bob Stoops’ rivalry with ex-Texas head man Mack Brown is the very first rivalry listed on CBS’ look. The two met 15 times over Stoops’ 18 full seasons in Norman. OU took nine of the 15 games. Four of the nine wins came by an average margin of 45 points.
“Both teams were ranked in 12 of the 15 games shared between Brown and Stoops. That includes four top-five matchups. Stoops won a national title in 2000 after trouncing Texas 63-14 in the regular season, and Brown followed that up in 2005 with a 45-12 win against Oklahoma on the march to a Longhorns national championship,” author Will Backus wrote in the ranking.
Stoops retired from collegiate coaching in 2017, though he did return for one game in 2021 after the man who replaced him in OU, Lincoln Riley, had left for Southern California before the Sooners’ Alamo Bowl win over Oregon. Brown coached Texas from 1998-2013. He returned to college football in 2017 with North Carolina, the place he began his FBS head coaching career, before being fired at the end of last season.
Stoops ranks first in Oklahoma history in wins with 191, and his .799 winning percentage trails only Barry Switzer (.837) and Bud Wilkinson (.826).
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