Barry Switzer was only given a nine-month contract when OU hired him as its head football coach in 1973, but Switzer didn’t care. “Hell, I don’t need a contract,” Switzer told the Board of Regents.

Former Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer has been named a member of the SEC’s 2024 Football Legends class, to be honored at events around the SEC Football Championship Game in December. Switzer, ...

Fifty years ago Friday, Barry Switzer made his head-coaching debut for OU, as the Sooners beat Baylor in Waco. For the first time in program history that night, three players rushed for at least 100 ...

As the final Bedlam game approaches, legendary former coaches Barry Switzer (OU Head Coach 1973-1988) and Pat Jones (OSU Head Coach 1984-1994) recount how much the game meant to them. "It was kind of ...

Hundreds of faithful Sooner fans gathered Saturday to dedicate a statue in honor of former Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer. Big 12 Interim commissioner Chuck Neinas along with Bob Stoops, OU ...

Barry Layne Switzer was born on Oct. 5, 1937, in Crossett, Ark. Crossett is 135 miles south of Little Rock and only a few miles north of the Louisiana border. When Switzer was a newborn, his family's ...