Brady Trantham- Oklahoma Threads: The Sooners Head to Uncharted Territory in the Magnolia State
Both MSU and OU have played 131 years of college football — but never each other.
The University of Oklahoma and Mississippi State may have been playing on two different planets during their 131 years of playing football.
As an institution, MSU has 12 years on OU, opening in 1878 as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi (Mississippi A&M). It dropped the name in 1932 and adopted Mississippi State — well after the 21-year head coach Bennie Owen called it a career in 1926.
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