Top 20 Oklahoma Sooners all-time in career passing yards

A look at the top 20 passers in Oklahoma Sooners history in career passing yards.

The Oklahoma Sooners have had their fair share of quality quarterback play over the years. That play has earned numerous All-American awards and four Heisman trophies.

Oklahoma has had success with a variety of offensive styles and quarterback play. That shows up when you look at the Sooners’ all-time leaders in career passing yards. Sure you have [autotag]Landry Jones[/autotag] and [autotag]Baker Mayfield[/autotag], who threw for more than 10,000 yards in their career with the Sooners. Then you have a player [autotag]Jamelle Holieway[/autotag] who is top 20 in both career passing yards and career rushing yards. Holieway and [autotag]Jack Mildren[/autotag] had more rushing touchdowns in their career than they did passing touchdowns.

There is one quarterback inside the top 10 all-time in career passing yards that didn’t play in the last 20 years and that guy is still with the Oklahoma Sooners: wide receivers coach [autotag]Cale Gundy[/autotag]. Gundy is No. 6 in career passing yards. Makes you wonder what kind of damage he could have done in a modern spread offense.

After two seasons in Norman, Dillon Gabriel was productive enough to enter the top 10 in career passing yards at the University of Oklahoma. His 55 passing touchdowns ranks fifth all-time and he finished tied for 17 in rushing touchdowns by a quarterback. Gabriel had a prolific career with Oklahoma and now will hope to have continued success with the Oregon Ducks.

Here’s a look at the top 20 Oklahoma Sooners in career passing yards.

Updated FBS all-time passing TD leaders after 2022 campaign

Sam Hartman and Clayton Tune climbed the all-time list after the 2022 campaign.

Scoring touchdowns is the name of the game and some quarterbacks did it better than others.

The single-season record currently sits at 62, held by former Houston Baptist and Western Kentucky quarterback Bailey Zappe. He set the record with the Hilltoppers in 2021, less than two seasons after LSU Tigers’ quarterback Joe Burrow broke Colt Brennan’s record of 58. Burrow threw 60 touchdown passes en route to winning Heisman Trophy.

It goes beyond one season for the career passing touchdown records. Which quarterbacks showed up consistently each season to rack up the points and give their team the opportunity to win? Plenty of names on the top 25 list are similar to our rundown of the career passing yards list. However, the order might look a bit different for some players.

Former Wake Forest quarterback and current Notre Dame signal-caller Sam Hartman climbed the list after the 2022 season. He was joined by former Houston Cougars gunslinger Clayton Tune, who also climbed the ranks.

We break down the top 25 passing touchdown leaders in FBS history. Ties are listed in alphabetical order.

Updated FBS all-time passing leaders after 2022 campaign

Sam Hartman and Holton Ahlers climbed the all-time list after the 2022 campaign.

Following the 2022 college football season, our look back at the record books showed two new passers joined the top 25 in FBS history.

Eastern Carolina’s Holton Ahler threw for 3,708 yards to jump all the way to No. 11. He missed out on the top 10 by 146 yards. Likewise, Wake Forest’s Sam Hartman joined the top 20. He checked in at No. 19 with 12,967 yards knocking Ryan Lindley out of the top 25.

Hartman completed his fifth year at the collegiate level and will return for a sixth, but will suit for Notre Dame in 2023. In five seasons, Hartman has averaged 2,593 yards per season. That output in the upcoming season would move him up to No. 5 overall.

Oklahoma’s Dillon Gabriel is another quarterback to observe this upcoming season. Gabriel checks in at No. 69 with 11,205 yards. If he can reproduce his 2022 outcome, the southpaw could climb into the top 25 and land at No. 9.

The top 25 career passing yardage leaders are courtesy of Sports-Reference.

A look at the all-time leading passers in Oklahoma Sooners history

Looking at the Oklahoma Sooners top passers of all-time in yards.

The Oklahoma Sooners have a storied history when it comes to their football program. The school has won 917 college football games, which is the sixth-most ever. Its winning percentage of 0.726 is also the sixth-best. It has seven national championships and holds the most conference championships all-time, 50.

During that time plenty of notable gunslingers have donned the Crimson and Cream. Among the top passers in Sooners’ history, you have Jack Mildren in 1969-71, Bob Warmack from 1966-68, and into the early ’90s with current assistant Cale Gundy.

It might feel like a bit of recency bias when you bring up the names of Sam Bradford, Kyler Murray, Baker Mayfield, Landry Jones or even Jason White. However, they are among the very best due to the modern era of college football. Just look at the current head coach that loves to throw the ball around. Lincoln Riley learned from another OU assistant, Mike Leach.

Currently, the starting quarterback, Spencer Rattler is putting up big numbers. So much so that after just one season, he was cracked the top 15 in school history. Provided he replicates last season’s success, the former Gatorade Player of the Year could climb as high as the top five.

Sooners Wire breaks down the top 20 passes in Oklahoma football history: