Oklahoma Finishes sixteenth in Learfield Directors’ Cup

NORMAN – The University of Oklahoma completed sixteenth within the 2025-26 Division I LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup standings, marking the athletics division’s third-highest end within the final 12 years, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics introduced Thursday.
 
Oklahoma’s No. 16 end ranks because the division’s eighth finest for the reason that Directors’ Cup started in 1993-94. The SEC paced all Division I conferences with 9 establishments ending inside the highest 25 and was adopted by the Big Ten (eight), ACC (six), Ivy League (one) and Big 12 (one).
 
Developed by way of a partnership between NACDA and USA Today, the Directors’ Cup acknowledges broad-based excellence throughout collegiate athletics. Points are awarded primarily based on NCAA Championship finishes, with Division I scores calculated from 19 sports activities, together with baseball, males’s basketball, ladies’s basketball, ladies’s soccer and girls’s volleyball. The subsequent highest 14 (most) sports activities scored for every establishment, no matter gender, are used within the standings.
 
The Sooners totaled 930.75 factors in the course of the 2025-26 educational yr, fueled by a dominant spring that produced 439.25 factors to enrich 364 factors within the winter and 127.5 factors within the fall.
 
Baseball capped a historic season by capturing this system’s third nationwide championship, incomes 100 Directors’ Cup factors. Led by head coach Skip Johnson, the Sooners recorded 9 victories over nationally seeded opponents, together with wins over the SEC, ACC and Big 12 champions, en path to the title.
 
Women’s gymnastics additionally earned 100 factors after successful this system’s eighth nationwide championship and second straight. The Sooners completed 35-1-1, claimed the outright SEC regular-season championship and prolonged their NCAA-record streak to 16 consecutive NCAA Regional titles. OU’s championship marketing campaign featured 15 All-America honors and two particular person nationwide champions.
 
Men’s observe and area and cross nation mixed for 183.75 factors throughout the autumn, winter and spring seasons. The Sooners opened the yr with a Fifteenth-place end on the NCAA Cross Country Championships – their finest nationwide end in a decade – earlier than putting eleventh on the NCAA Indoor Championships – their highest indoor end since 1997. The group tied for sixteenth on the NCAA Outdoor Championships behind discus nationwide champion Ralford Mullings and 14 All-America honors. OU was one in every of solely three packages nationally to complete within the high 16 in males’s cross nation, indoor observe and area and out of doors observe and area in the course of the 2025-26 season.
 
Powered by three particular person nationwide champions, males’s gymnastics completed because the NCAA runner-up and contributed 90 factors. The Sooners additionally captured their twenty first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title and have recorded a top-two nationwide end in 20 of the final 25 seasons.
 
Football added 67.5 factors after making this system’s fifth College Football Playoff look. Oklahoma completed 10-3, securing its forty third 10-win season and second beneath head coach Brent Venables.
 
Led by head coach Jennie Baranczyk, ladies’s basketball contributed 64 factors with its second consecutive Sweet 16 look. The Sooners completed 26-8 and eclipsed 25 wins for the fourth time in 5 seasons beneath Baranczyk.
 
Softball added 64 factors behind this system’s sixteenth consecutive NCAA Super Regional look. Oklahoma reached the 50-win mark for the thirteenth straight season and secured its second consecutive SEC regular-season championship.
 
Men’s and girls’s tennis every earned 64 factors as each packages superior to the NCAA Super Regional spherical. The ladies’s group received the SEC regular-season title and posted a 25-6 file for the yr, tying for the second-most wins in program historical past. The males completed 20-7 and recorded 13 victories over ranked opponents whereas registering this system’s eighth Sweet 16 look.
 
Men’s golf earned 61.5 factors after advancing to the NCAA Championships for the Fifteenth consecutive season, the second-longest streak in program historical past. The Sooners positioned 14th nationally, securing their ninth top-15 NCAA end within the final 10 championships.
 
Wrestling contributed 44 factors after sending seven opponents to the NCAA Championships. It was this system’s most nationwide qualifiers beneath third-year head coach Roger Kish.
 
Women’s golf added 28 factors after advancing to its twenty second NCAA Regional. OU completed the season ranked among the many nation’s high 30 packages for the primary time in additional than a decade.

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2025-26 Learfield Directors’ Cup Top 25

Rank	School	Total Points
1	Texas	1,322.00
2	Stanford	1,263.50
3	UCLA	1,199.25
4	North Carolina	1,166.75
5	Virginia	1,148.75
6	Florida	1,104.50
7	USC	1,095.50
8	Georgia	1,081.25
9	Michigan	1,076.75
10	Ohio State	1,071.25
11	Duke	1,039.25
12	Texas A&M	980.00
13	Alabama	968.75
14	Arkansas	965.75
15	Tennessee	964.75
16	Oklahoma	930.75
17	Nebraska	929.00
18	LSU	926.75
19	Notre Dame	898.50
20	Princeton	878.50
21	Penn State	864.50
22	NC State	860.00
23	Oregon	783.00
24	Wisconsin	754.00
25	BYU	730.00

 

Oklahoma within the Learfield Directors’ Cup by Year

Year	Finish	Points
2025-26	16	930.75
2024-25	9	1017.20
2023-24	24	805.75
2022-23	23	813.75
2021-22	10	968.50
2020-21	24	774.00
2019-20	COVID	N/A
2018-19	33	703.50
2017-18	25	785.75
2016-17	17	876.00
2015-16	16	914.25
2014-15	21	799.50
2013-14	19	902.75
2012-13	7	1078.25
2011-12	14	946.00
2010-11	10	1064.75
2009-10	12	921.25
2008-09	29	656.50
2007-08	23	713.00
2006-07	25	702.75
2005-06	37	482.15
2004-05	24	571.25
2003-04	15	728.75
2002-03	20	643.25
2001-02	17	760.50
2000-01	18	698.50
1999-00	25	563.50
1998-99	51	170.00
1997-98	34	250.00
1996-97	37	370.00
1995-96	51	310.50
1994-95	22	423.00
1993-94	20	499.00