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Top 20 Oklahoma Sooners of all-time in receiving yards

Top 20 Oklahoma Sooners in career receiving yards.

Since the turn of the century, the Oklahoma Sooners have recruited, developed, and produced some of the best wide receivers in college football. The air-raid revolution, combined with Oklahoma’s ability to recruit allowed wide receivers to put up monster numbers in Norman.

Of the top 20 players in receiving yards in Oklahoma history, 17 of them played for the Sooners during the [autotag]Bob Stoops[/autotag] or [autotag]Lincoln Riley[/autotag] eras. The four that didn’t were [autotag]Stephen Alexander[/autotag], [autotag]Corey Warren[/autotag], and [autotag]Eddie Hinton[/autotag].

Considering how little the teams threw the football when Hinton played, it’s pretty incredible they were able to put up the numbers they did. With Drake Stoops career year in 2023, legendary tight end Keith Jackson fell out of the top 20. Jackson played at a time when they didn’t throw the ball a ton, but his athleticism and speed allowed him to make the most of his opportunities.

Who knows what his numbers would look like in a modern offense. Imagine Brock Bowers but with even bigger numbers.

Half of the players in the top 20 in receiving yards averaged 15 or more yards per reception.

No player with at least 75 receptions in their Sooners career averaged more yards per reception than [autotag]Marvin Mims[/autotag] 19.5 per catch. His first 1,000-yard season in 2022 helped him reach eighth all-time in receiving yards at the University of Oklahoma.

[autotag]DeMarco Murray[/autotag]’s 1,571 receiving yards puts him 20th all-time.

Nic Anderson looks like the next player to enter the top 20, if he’s able to recreate his breakout 2023 season in 2024. By the end of his Sooners career, he could be flirting with the top 10 in career receiving yards at the University of Oklahoma.

Here’s an updated look at Oklahoma’s top 20 Sooners in receiving yards all time.

The Boz among those who would have benefitted the most from NIL

With NIL being as massive as it is now, CBSSports looks back at what former players could have benefitted the most.

The name, image and likeness (NIL) era has taken over college football. Some fans love it but others hate it and are ready for it to be gone.

Unfortunately for those fans, NIL appears to be here for the long haul. This offseason particularly proved to be a wild ride with NIL. You are seeing teams like [autotag]Ole Miss[/autotag] or [autotag]Missouri[/autotag] using NIL heavily to plug some holes to try to make a deep run next year.

We know about the stars today and can usually get a rough estimate about how much they are getting from NIL but that got CBSSports thinking. What former stars would have benefitted the most from NIL? One of those is Oklahoma Sooners legend, [autotag]Brian Bosworth[/autotag].

The conversation mostly focused on those years in the 1990s and 2000s that tracked with college football’s explosion in the national consciousness, but Tom Fornelli delivered an excellent assessment of how the two-time All-American from Oklahoma could have benefited from the NIL era. “Brian Bosworth was a social media superstar 40 years before social media existed,” Tom Fornelli said. Yes, with wild hair and vocal opposition to the NCAA, you could say that “The Boz” created trending topics before we were tracking such things. He controlled the conversation, created intrigue in his off-field endeavors as well his on-field success, and he would have gotten plenty of financial opportunities through NIL throughout the state of Oklahoma. – Chip Patterson CBSSports

Bosworth was a marketing genius. He knew exactly what to say and when to say it. I’d argue he might have benefitted the most from NIL because we really haven’t seen anyone be able to market themselves as well as he did. He would have been in just about every local commercial as would have had a number of public appearances. Just think about the amount of “the sight of burnt orange makes me puke” shirts that would be sold.
I know I’d buy one.

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Social Buzz: Sooner Nation ready for Oklahoma vs. Nebraska

What’s social media saying ahead of the Oklahoma Sooners first road trip of the season to play the Nebraska Cornhuskers?

It’s a game that’s created some legendary moments in the history of college football. The Game of the Century Josh Norman’s blocked field goal in 2000 that gave OU the momentum to go on and win the game during a magical run to the 2000 national championship.

Keith Jackson’s one handed catch in 1986 put the Oklahoma Sooners in position to kick a game-winning field goal to beat the Cornhuskers and win another Big 8 championship.

Just last year, DJ Graham’s one-handed interception and Pat Fields blocked PAT return for two points were great moments in a game celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the Game of the Century.

Though Nebraska comes into this game with a couple of losses, and far from the program that was dominant in the 1980s and 1990s, the atmosphere and the environment of this renewed rivalry will create more incredible moments in one of the storied rivalries in college football.

As we gear up for kickoff, let’s check in on Sooner Nation and see what they have to say ahead of the Sooners first road test of the season.

Oklahoma football all-time roster: Offensive starters and backups

See which legends made the cut in our all-time Oklahoma Sooners football roster, starting with the offensive starters and backups.

When you have as illustrious a history as the Oklahoma Sooners with their seven national championships, the longest winning streak in college football history, seven Heisman Trophy winners, and 50 conference championships, picking an all-time team can be a difficult task.

Oklahoma has some legendary figures in the world of college football. It’s a program that’s had incredible success dating back to Bennie Owen in the program’s early days. For more than 100 years, the Oklahoma Sooners have created a program that’s synonymous with winning.

Here’s our crack at Oklahoma’s All-Time offense.

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