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1962 Oklahoma Sooners football team

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1962 Oklahoma Sooners football
Big 8 champion
Orange Bowl, L 0–17 vs. Alabama
ConferenceBig Eight Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 7
APNo. 8
Record8–3 (7–0 Big 8)
Head coach
Captains
  • Leon Cross
  • Wayne Lee
Home stadiumOklahoma Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1961
1963 →
1962 Big Eight Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 8 Oklahoma $ 7 0 0 8 3 0
Missouri 5 1 1 8 1 2
Nebraska 5 2 0 9 2 0
Kansas 4 2 1 6 3 1
Iowa State 3 4 0 5 5 0
Oklahoma State 2 5 0 4 6 0
Colorado 1 6 0 2 8 0
Kansas State 0 7 0 0 10 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1962 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the Big Eight Conference during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their sixteenth season under head coach Bud Wilkinson, the Sooners were 8–2 in the regular season (7–0 in conference) and played their home games on campus at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma.

In the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day, the Sooners were shut out 17–0 by fifth-ranked Alabama and finished at 8–3.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendanceSource
September 22Syracuse*W 7–354,600
September 29Notre Dame*
  • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
  • Norman, OK
CBSL 7–1360,640
October 13vs. No. 2 Texas*CBSL 6–975,504[1]
October 20at KansasW 13–738,540
October 27Kansas State
  • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
  • Norman, OK
W 47–045,085
November 3at ColoradoW 62–027,871
November 101:30 p.m.at Iowa StateW 41–015,391[2][3]
November 17No. 6 Missouri
  • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
  • Norman, OK (rivalry)
W 13–062,181
November 24NebraskaNo. 10
  • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
  • Norman, OK (rivalry)
W 34–658,768
December 1at Oklahoma StateNo. 8W 37–635,727
January 1, 1963vs. No. 5 Alabama*No. 8L 0–1773,380[4]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Central time

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Rankings

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Ranking movements
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— = Not ranked
Week
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Roster

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After the season

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NFL draft

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Three Sooners were selected in the 1963 NFL draft.[6]

Round Pick Player Position NFL team
8 101 Jim Cook Guard St. Louis Cardinals
9 116 Dennis Ward Tackle Philadelphia Eagles
14 185 Paul Lea Back St. Louis Cardinals

Staff

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After the season in early January, 31-year-old assistant coach Eddie Crowder, a former Sooner quarterback, was hired as head coach at the University of Colorado, also a member of the Big Eight.[7][8][9]

References

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  1. ^ "Texas turns OU errors into 9–6 victory". The Daily Ardmoreite. October 14, 1962. Retrieved April 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Housh, Leighton (November 10, 1962). "Iowa State Seeks 3rd Straight Over Sooners". The Des Moines Register. Des Moines, Iowa. p. 9. Retrieved July 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ Housh, Leighton (November 10, 1962). "Cyclones--- (continued)". The Des Moines Register. Des Moines, Iowa. p. 11. Retrieved July 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ Land, Charles (January 2, 1963). "Tide rolls over Sooners, Namath, Jordan shine". The Tuscaloosa News. p. 9. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  5. ^ "SoonerSports.com". Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
  6. ^ "1963 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  7. ^ "Crowder signs 5-year Colorado U. grid pact". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). UPI. January 2, 1963. p. 6B.
  8. ^ "Crowder names 3 assistants". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). UPI. January 4, 1963. p. B7.
  9. ^ "Crowder gets job as CU grid coach with five-year pact". Lawrence Daily Journal-World. (Kansas). Associated Press. January 2, 1963. p. 14.