Oklahoma Football: Six Captivating Sugar Bowl Story Lines

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 12:29 p.m. ET

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Oklahoma football played its first opponent from the Southeastern Conference 83 years ago. Since that time, the Sooners have faced an SEC team 22 times, but only once has the opponent been the Auburn Tigers.

Nov 19, 2016; Morgantown, WV, USA; Oklahoma Sooners fans cheer before their game against the West Virginia Mountaineers at Milan Puskar Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ben Queen-USA TODAY Sports

The one time Oklahoma and Auburn faced each other on the football field was 45 years ago, in the 1972 Sugar Bowl, and the Sooners were dominant in that contest, winning by a 40-22 margin.

That is just one of the intriguing story lines surrounding the second all-time meeting of these two schools with deep-rooted football heritages. Here are a half-dozen more: