Bob Stoops

Bob Stoops
	Stoops in 2021
Profile
Position	Head coach
Personal information
Born	September 9, 1960; Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.
Career information
High school	Youngstown (OH) Cardinal Mooney
College	Iowa (1979–1982)
NFL draft	1983: undrafted
Career history
	Iowa (1983–1984) ; Graduate assistant; Iowa (1985–1987) ; Assistant; Kent State (1988) ; Assistant; Kansas State (1989–1990) ; Defensive backs coach; Kansas State (1991–1995); Co-defensive coordinator; Florida (1996–1998); Defensive coordinator / assistant head coach; Oklahoma (1999–2016); Head coach; Dallas Renegades (2020); Head coach & general manager; Oklahoma (2021); Interim head coach; Arlington Renegades (2023–2025); Head coach;
Awards and highlights
	XFL champion (2023); National champion (2000); 10× Big 12 champion (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006–2008, 2010, 2012, 2015–2016); 8× Big 12 South champion (2000, 2002–2004, 2006–2008, 2010); 2× Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2000, 2003); Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (2000); The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2000); George Munger Award (2000); AP Coach of the Year (2000); 6× Big 12 Coach of the Year (2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2015–2016); Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (2003); Woody Hayes Trophy Coach of the Year (2000); Disney's Wide World of Sports Spirit Award (2014); First-team All-Big Ten (1982);
Head coaching record
Regular season	NCAA 191–48 (.799); XFL 6–9 (.400); UFL 8–12 (.400)
Postseason	XFL 2–0 (1.000)
Career	NCAA 191–48 (.799); XFL 8–9 (.471); UFL 8–12 (.400)
	College Football Hall of Fame

Robert Anthony Stoops (born September 9, 1960) is an American former football coach who was the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1999 through the 2016 season, and on an interim basis during the 2021 Alamo Bowl. He led the Oklahoma Sooners to a record of 191–48 over his career. His 2000 Oklahoma Sooners football team won the 2001 Orange Bowl, which served as the BCS National Championship Game, and earned a consensus national championship. Stoops also was a head coach with the XFL, coaching the Renegades in 2020, and from 2023 to 2025. Stoops' Renegades won the XFL Championship in 2023.

Stoops played college football at the University of Iowa as a defensive back from 1979 to 1982. Prior to his tenure at Oklahoma, he held various assistant coaching positions at the University of Iowa, Kent State University, Kansas State University, and the University of Florida. Stoops was awarded the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in 2000 and the Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award in both 2000 and 2003. Stoops has been nicknamed "Big Game Bob" by both supporters and detractors.

Stoops was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2021.