Bob Stoops

Head coach, Oklahoma, 1999 to 2021

College career191-48

Titles1national · 5 conference

Program liftNo. 34of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Bowls and playoffs: 9-9 · won 1 of 4 national title games

’99L’00W★’01W’02W’03L’04L’05W’06L’07L’08L’09W’10W’11W’12L’13W’14L’15L’16W

Show all 18 games

1999Independence BowlL 25-27

2000 ★Orange BowlW 13-2

2001Cotton Bowl ClassicW 10-3

2002Rose BowlW 34-14

2003Sugar BowlL 14-21

2004Orange BowlL 19-55

2005Holiday BowlW 17-14

2006Fiesta BowlL 42-43

2007Fiesta BowlL 28-48

2008BCS title gameL 14-24

2009Sun BowlW 31-27

2010Fiesta BowlW 48-20

2011Insight BowlW 31-14

2012Cotton Bowl ClassicL 13-41

2013Sugar BowlW 45-31

2014Russell Athletic BowlL 6-40

2015 semiOrange BowlL 17-37

2016Sugar BowlW 35-19

Report card

Offense carries it: 83rd percentile offense, above the median defense at 65th.

Oklahoma, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.

Offense

of which —83rd

efficiency — 83rd percentile success rate, 2004–21

A82nd

Standard-downs success

B+78th

Passing-downs success

B68th

Trench push (line yards)

B66th

Red-zone scoring rate

B60th

Power-success (short yardage)

B61st

Ball security (giveaways per game)

Defense

of which —65th

65th percentile SP+ defense, 2014–21 (SP+ starts 2014)

D21st

Front-7 havoc

B62nd

Secondary havoc

B+71st

Stuff rate (run defense)

B-54th

Takeaways per game

Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

25-11 against his rivals. Nobody he faced three or more times has a winning record against him.

Rivalry record

25-11

69.4% · 2 rivals

ATS 3-5 · 8 of 36 had a line

One-score games

36-22

62.1% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

13-12

52.0%

Against the spread

29-23

+1.5 pts a game vs. the line

52 of 238 had a line

Rivalry ledger

Texas11-761%ATS —

Oklahoma State14-478%ATS —

Closest series

vs. Les Miles2-2

4 meetings, 2001–2004

’01 L’02 L’03 W’04 W

Performance by opponent class

Dynasty

2-2 50.0%ATS —

Blue Blood

11-10 52.4%ATS —

Power Program

63-25 71.6%ATS 16-12 28 of 88

National Program

43-8 84.3%ATS 2-4 6 of 51

Regional Program

67-3 95.7%ATS 10-5 15 of 70

ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.

Signature games

37-19 vs. AP top 25 · 11-9 vs. the top 10 · 2004– (no AP data before 2004)

AP-ranked regular-season opponents since 2004, by rank (#1 at top) and year

win loss · higher = higher-ranked opponent · dashed line = top 10

Signature wins

Alabama · 2013

45-31

UpsetQuality opponentBowl/CFP stakes

Texas · 2011

55-17

RivalQuality opponent

Florida State · 2000

13-2

Quality opponentBowl/CFP stakes

Signature losses

USC · 2004

19-55

Bowl/CFP stakes

Texas A&M · 2012

13-41

Bowl/CFP stakes

Texas · 2005

12-45

Rival

These losses tie at the model's current max -- an editorial pick among a real tie, not a clean ranking.

Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.

How he plays

Air Raid-rooted spread — more run-heavy than 61% of FBS coaches →

Run/pass mix, by field position

Called about what the situation called for under every play-caller.

9,262 run and pass snaps at Oklahoma, 2004–2016, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points. Play-by-play starts in 2004, so his earlier seasons there aren’t in it.

backed upown territorymidfieldopp. territoryred zoneOC unrecorded2004–13+1+2+20+2Heupel/Norvell2014+100−7−8−6Riley2015–16−2+2+2+3+3All years2004–16+1+2+10+2

passed moreran morewithin noise (95% range includes 0)

Pass rate, stint by stint

Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.

Pass rate — share of offensive plays that were pass attemptsfirst covered seasonmost recent covered seasonfull season-to-season range (3+ covered seasons)

How much that is, against every other stint

Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.

Typical stint7.010.3 median14.8middle half of all stints

Oklahoma18.9pt#43 of 449 · more than most

Building the roster

Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2Size up front
3Where he recruits
4The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

98%His own players

of his 2021 roster arrived on his watch — 115 of 117 players. The other 2 are holdovers from before he was hired.

Arrived under him 115Inherited 2

Of his own players on this roster, 12% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).

This tenure spans the 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor: seasons before 2021 structurally cannot be classified portal-vs-not (they land in 'unknown' below), so the portal-share figure understates how many pre-2021 arrivals might have been transfers under the pre-portal-tracking transfer rules.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

Size up front

+11 lbAgainst the FBS average

Offensive linemen on his Oklahoma rosters have averaged 11 lb heavier than the FBS average (2010–2016 rosters on record) — heavier than 97% of FBS coaching runs since 2010.

Oklahoma2010–2016+11 lb

His seasonsMiddle half of FBS coaching runs since 2010

Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.

Where he recruits

TXTop state

is his biggest recruiting state: 135 of 351 signees (38%) across his 2000–2021 classes on record (his tenure ran 1999–2021), drawn from 28 states in all. Next: OK (69).

Where his signees came from, 2000–2021 (351 high-school, JUCO and prep signees)

61% of his signees come from TX and its 4 border states (OK 69, LA 8, AR 2, NM 1).

By region

South

265

West

Midwest

Northeast

Feeder school Union 6

Roster distance from campus (Memorial Stadium (Norman, OK))

median hometown distance: 341 mi
within 100 mi: 15%
within 500 mi: 66%
beyond 1,000 mi: 20%

115 of 117 roster players with a known hometown (98% coverage)

The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.

The NFL pipeline

83Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. He brought in 20 of them himself. 63 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record). 13 went in the first round.

His recruits 20Inherited 0Can’t verify 6320 roster-verified · 63 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team
2017	R2.16	Joe Mixon	Running Back	Cincinnati Bengals
2017	R4.03	Dede Westbrook	Wide Receiver	Jacksonville Jaguars
2017	R4.07	Samaje Perine	Running Back	Washington Redskins
2017	R6.09	Jordan Evans	Inside Linebacker	Cincinnati Bengals
2016	R2.09	Sterling Shepard	Wide Receiver	New York Giants
2016	R4.03	Charles Tapper	Defensive End	Dallas Cowboys
2016	R5.02	Zack Sanchez	Cornerback	Carolina Panthers
2016	R6.08	Devante Bond	Outside Linebacker	Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
2015	R2.20	Jordan Phillips	Defensive Tackle	Miami Dolphins
2015	R3.33	Geneo Grissom	Defensive End	New England Patriots
2015	R4.03	Daryl Williams	Offensive Tackle	Carolina Panthers
2015	R4.18	Blake Bell	Tight End	San Francisco 49ers
2015	R6.09	Tyrus Thompson	Offensive Tackle	Minnesota Vikings
2015	R6.30	Aaron Ripkowski	Fullback	Green Bay Packers
2014	R4.04	Jalen Saunders	Wide Receiver	New York Jets
2014	R4.14	Aaron Colvin	Cornerback	Jacksonville Jaguars
2014	R7.27	Corey Nelson	Outside Linebacker	Denver Broncos
2014	R7.30	Trey Millard	Fullback	San Francisco 49ers
2013	R1.04	Lane Johnson	Offensive Tackle	Philadelphia Eagles	Estimated
2013	R4.18	Landry Jones	Quarterback	Pittsburgh Steelers	Estimated
2013	R5.11	Kenny Stills	Wide Receiver	New Orleans Saints
2013	R6.37	Stacy McGee	Defensive Tackle	Oakland Raiders	Estimated
2013	R7.33	David King	Defensive End	Philadelphia Eagles	Estimated
2012	R2.22	Ryan Broyles	Wide Receiver	Detroit Lions	Estimated
2012	R3.11	Donald Stephenson	Offensive Tackle	Kansas City Chiefs	Estimated
2012	R3.17	Jamell Fleming	Cornerback	Arizona Cardinals	Estimated
2012	R4.08	Frank Alexander	Defensive End	Carolina Panthers	Estimated
2012	R4.30	Ronnell Lewis	Outside Linebacker	Detroit Lions
2012	R6.16	James Hanna	Tight End	Dallas Cowboys	Estimated
2012	R7.16	Travis Lewis	Outside Linebacker	Detroit Lions	Estimated
2011	R3.07	Demarco Murray	Running Back	Dallas Cowboys	Estimated
2011	R4.11	Quinton Carter	Safety	Denver Broncos	Estimated
2011	R7.26	Jonathan Nelson	Cornerback	St. Louis Rams	Estimated
2011	R7.44	Jeremy Beal	Defensive End	Denver Broncos	Estimated
2010	R1.01	Sam Bradford	Quarterback	St. Louis Rams	Estimated
2010	R1.03	Gerald McCoy	Defensive Tackle	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Estimated
2010	R1.04	Trent Williams	Offensive Tackle	Washington Redskins	Estimated
2010	R1.21	Jermaine Gresham	Tight End	Cincinnati Bengals	Estimated
2010	R4.23	Keenan Clayton	Outside Linebacker	Philadelphia Eagles	Estimated
2010	R5.04	Dominique Franks	Cornerback	Atlanta Falcons	Estimated
2010	R5.31	Brody Eldridge	Tight End	Indianapolis Colts	Estimated
2009	R2.22	Phil Loadholt	Offensive Tackle	Minnesota Vikings	Estimated
2009	R3.35	Juaquin Iglesias	Wide Receiver	Chicago Bears	Estimated
2009	R5.11	Nic Harris	Outside Linebacker	Buffalo Bills	Estimated
2009	R5.27	Duke Robinson	Offensive Guard	Carolina Panthers	Estimated
2009	R7.20	Manuel Johnson	Wide Receiver	Dallas Cowboys	Estimated
2008	R2.06	Curtis Lofton	Inside Linebacker	Atlanta Falcons	Estimated
2008	R2.20	Malcolm Kelly	Wide Receiver	Washington Redskins	Estimated
2008	R3.12	Reggie Smith	Cornerback	San Francisco 49ers	Estimated
2008	R7.33	Allen Patrick	Running Back	Baltimore Ravens	Estimated
2007	R1.07	Adrian Peterson	Running Back	Minnesota Vikings	Estimated
2007	R6.02	Rufus Alexander	Linebacker	Minnesota Vikings	Estimated
2007	R7.29	C.J. Ah You	Defensive End	Buffalo Bills	Estimated
2006	R1.23	Davin Joseph	Offensive Guard	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Estimated
2006	R2.24	Chris Chester	Center	Baltimore Ravens	Estimated
2006	R3.09	Dusty Dvoracek	Defensive Tackle	Chicago Bears	Estimated
2006	R3.14	Travis Wilson	Wide Receiver	Cleveland Browns	Estimated
2006	R3.16	Clint Ingram	Linebacker	Jacksonville Jaguars	Estimated
2006	R6.26	J.D. Runnels	Running Back	Chicago Bears	Estimated
2005	R1.13	Jammal Brown	Offensive Tackle	New Orleans Saints	Estimated
2005	R1.22	Mark Clayton	Wide Receiver	Baltimore Ravens	Estimated
2005	R2.02	Brodney Pool	Defensive Back	Cleveland Browns	Estimated
2005	R2.07	Mark Bradley	Wide Receiver	Chicago Bears	Estimated
2005	R2.21	Dan Cody	Linebacker	Baltimore Ravens	Estimated
2005	R3.32	Brandon Jones	Wide Receiver	Tennessee Titans	Estimated
2005	R4.02	Antonio Perkins	Defensive Back	Cleveland Browns	Estimated
2005	R5.05	Donte Nicholson	Defensive Back	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Estimated
2005	R5.31	Michael Hawkins	Defensive Back	Green Bay Packers	Estimated
2005	R5.32	Lance Mitchell	Linebacker	Arizona Cardinals	Estimated
2005	R6.03	Wes Sims	Offensive Guard	San Diego Chargers	Estimated
2004	R1.14	Tommie Harris	Defensive Tackle	Chicago Bears	Estimated
2004	R2.05	Teddy Lehman	Linebacker	Detroit Lions	Estimated
2004	R3.13	Derrick Strait	Defensive Back	New York Jets	Estimated
2003	R1.28	Andre Woolfolk	Defensive Back	Tennessee Titans	Estimated
2003	R4.11	Quentin Griffin	Running Back	Denver Broncos	Estimated
2003	R6.16	Jimmy Wilkerson	Defensive End	Kansas City Chiefs	Estimated
2003	R7.09	Trent Smith	Tight End	Baltimore Ravens	Estimated
2002	R1.08	Roy Williams	Defensive Back	Dallas Cowboys	Estimated
2002	R3.12	Rocky Calmus	Linebacker	Tennessee Titans	Estimated
2001	R3.10	Torrance Marshall	Linebacker	Green Bay Packers	Estimated
2001	R6.14	Josh Heupel	Quarterback	Miami Dolphins	Estimated
2000	R1.20	Stockar McDougle	Offensive Tackle	Detroit Lions	Estimated
2000	R2.23	William Bartee	Defensive Back	Kansas City Chiefs	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.

Career

Coaching career

1 national title · 5 conference titles

See Oklahoma’s full coaching history →

The arc of his career is on Now.

Transformer raised the program into the sport's top tier, or higher within it

1999–2016, 2021 (1 game)

Oklahoma Transformer

Power Program II → Blue Blood (left at Power Program I)

Closest comparable run: Gary Patterson’s TCU run (2000–2021)

Bob Stoops took Oklahoma from Power Program II to Blue Blood.

+26.9 pts over 18 seasons · top 13% of 10+-season tenures (202 in sample)

3rd-best Oklahoma tenure of 15 by the numbers.

Followed John Blake (1996–1998) · succeeded by Lincoln Riley (2017–2021).

Season	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2021
Record & result
Record	7-5	13-0	11-2	12-2	12-2	12-1	8-4	11-3	11-3	12-2	8-5	12-2	10-3	10-3	11-2	8-5	11-2	11-2	1-0
Postseason	L bowl	W bowl	W bowl	W bowl	L bowl	L bowl	W bowl	L bowl	L bowl	Title game L	W bowl	W bowl	W bowl	L bowl	W bowl	L bowl	CFP loss	W bowl	W bowl
Coordinators
OC	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Jay Norvell / Josh Heupel	Lincoln Riley	Lincoln Riley	—
DC	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Mike Stoops	Mike Stoops	Mike Stoops	—
Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile
Offense	—	—	—	—	—	91	55	63	89	95	33	65	66	90	53	60	82	99	—
Defense	—	—	—	—	—	91	95	94	73	43	97	94	76	21	56	58	82	43	—
Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script
1st-down pass%	—	—	—	—	—	34.9	32.6	31.6	33.6	41.2	47.1	54.0	54.0	53.3	32.8	36.6	40.0	32.4	—
Red-zone pass%	—	—	—	—	—	35.4	26.2	32.5	35.5	37.9	46.4	49.7	45.9	45.9	35.5	26.9	43.4	32.5	—
4th-down go%opp. territory	—	—	—	—	—	50.0	32.6	19.4	47.6	46.4	35.7	39.2	18.2	20.0	21.4	30.0	35.0	21.7	—

Recruiter or developer?

Outperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.

Offense vs. talent

+28.1 pts

#16 of 208 · top quarter

Defense vs. talent

+1.5 pts

#94 of 208 · middle half

Recruiting talent is team-wide (no offense/defense split exists in the source data) -- both sides are scored against the same talent input, only the outcome is side-specific.

Does the system survive a coordinator change?

OC: Jay Norvell (co) / Josh Heupel (co) → Lincoln Riley · 2015

1-season window either side — numbers shown, not enough to badge a verdict.

1st-down pass rate: 36.6% → 40.0% (+3.3 pts)

Confound, shown not hidden: only 83% of offensive production returned the year the coordinator changed — the roster turned over at the same time, not just the play-caller.

Where the roster comes from, by position

Grows Tight end from high school

100%

#164 of 188 stints

Grows Edge from high school

100%

#191 of 208 stints

Postseason detail1999: Lost to Ole Miss 25-27 Bowl2000: Beat Kansas State 27-24 Bowl2000: Beat Florida State 13-2 Bowl2001: Beat Arkansas 10-3 Bowl2002: Beat Washington State 34-14 Rose Bowl2003: Lost to LSU 14-21 Nokia Sugar Bowl2004: Lost to USC 19-55 Orange Bowl2005: Beat Oregon 17-14 Bowl2006: Lost to Boise State 42-43 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale Az2007: Lost to West Virginia 28-48 Bowl2008: Lost to Florida 14-24 Fedex Bcs National Championship Game2009: Beat Stanford 31-27 Bowl2010: Beat UConn 48-20 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl2011: Beat Iowa 31-14 Insight Bowl2012: Lost to Texas A&M 13-41 At&T Cotton Bowl2013: Beat Alabama 45-31 Allstate Sugar Bowl2014: Lost to Clemson 6-40 Russell Athletic Bowl2015: Lost to Clemson 17-37 CFP2016: Beat Auburn 35-19 Allstate Sugar Bowl

1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Ty Darlington (2015)

191-48

All-time wins

Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.

most wins by a Big 12 coach

Was he good?

The data leans positive, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.

Raised the program

+26.9 pts at Oklahoma · #34 of 1290 · top quarter

Beat his talent