Where does OU rank in FBS win percentage in the playoff era?

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Over the course of 131 total seasons from 1895 to 2025, the Oklahoma Sooners have been among the very best of the best programs in the history of college football. OU’s overall record sits at a stellar 960 wins, 351 losses, and 53 ties over a total of 1,364 games. That’s good for a winning percentage of .723, meaning that the Sooners have won about 72.3 percent of the games that they’ve played.

However, what does that winning percentage look like in just the College Football Playoff era, and how would it compare to the rest of the Football Bowl Subdivision; the top level of college football? Well, it turns out that OU’s remarkable consistency and excellent play places them near the top of win percentages in just the last 12 seasons as well.

CBS Sports’ Cody Nagel ranked all of the FBS teams by their win percentage since the CFP began in 2014. Unsurprisingly, the Sooners were not too far down the list, ranking as one of only seven teams that has a better than .750 win percentage in that timeframe.

OU ranked seventh overall, with a .752 winning percentage and a 118-39 record. That means that the Sooners are one of only seven programs that have won over three-quarters of their games since 2014. Ahead of Oklahoma were Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, James Madison, and Notre Dame.

With all due respect to the great program that has been built at JMU, the Dukes have only played at the FBS level since the 2022 season. Their dominance at the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level skews their number on this list a bit.

When you take a look at the other teams above the Sooners, there’s a trend that emerges. Oklahoma has had more coaching turnover than all five other schools. OU has had three head coaches since the playoff began in Bob Stoops, Lincoln Riley, and Brent Venables. The other programs, Ohio State (Urban Meyer and Ryan Day), Alabama (Nick Saban and Kalen DeBoer), Georgia (Mark Richt and Kirby Smart), Clemson (Dabo Swinney), and Notre Dame (Brian Kelly and Marcus Freeman), have all had just one or two coaches in that same timeframe.

Oklahoma’s ranking and win percentage also includes lean years in 2014, 2022, and 2024, where the Sooners lost 19 games, compared to just 20 losses in the other nine seasons of the CFP. Each of those nine years saw double-digit win totals in Norman.

Oklahoma’s sparkling consistency and excellence over the decades has made the Sooners one of the undeniable blue bloods in college football. Even though the playoff era hasn’t always been the kindest to OU, they’ve still managed to bring that incredible consistency and excellence to the table and place themselves among the elite since college football adopted a playoff.

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