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Oklahoma at No. 6 in AP Poll (plus, context)

The Sooners still have the most top-five finishes of any college football program
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Oklahoma at No. 6 in AP Poll (plus, context)
Oklahoma at No. 6 in AP Poll (plus, context)

Oklahoma finished the 2020 season ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press Top 25.

The Sooners began the year ranked No. 5 in the preseason, but never got back to that level after two early losses.

Still, OU won its last eight consecutive games, took home its sixth straight Big 12 Conference title and capped this year with an impressive 55-20 victory over Florida in the Cotton Bowl.

Eric Bailey, OU beat writer at the Tulsa World, revealed plenty of relevant OU poll data late Monday night on Twitter after Alabama’s victory over Ohio State in the national championship game.

First up, the Sooners’ 60th appearance in the final AP Poll is tied for the second-most ever behind Michigan.

Despite not finishing this season in the top five, OU still has the most top-five appearances in the final poll.

The Sooners’ top-10 finish was their 44th, which ranks one behind Alabama for the most all-time.

Alabama now has 12 No. 1 finishes in the AP Poll. OU ranks third at seven — thus, the Sooners’ seven national championships.

This is the second year in a row that OU finished below its preseason ranking. In Lincoln Riley’s first two years, the Sooners finished better than their preseason rank.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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