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{{Short description|American football player and coach; sports announcer (1916–1994)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Bud Wilkinson
| image = File:Bud Wilkinson in 1969 (cropped).jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Wilkinson in 1969
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|4|23}}
| birth_place = [[Minneapolis|Minneapolis, Minnesota]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|2|9|1916|4|23}}
| death_place = [[St. Louis|St. Louis, Missouri]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_years1 = 1934–1936
| player_team1 = [[Minnesota Golden Gophers football|Minnesota]]
| player_positions = [[Quarterback]]
| coach_years1 = 1937–1941
| coach_team1 = [[Syracuse Orange football|Syracuse]] (assistant)
| coach_years2 = 1942
| coach_team2 = [[Minnesota Golden Gophers football|Minnesota]] (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1943–1944
| coach_team3 = [[Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football|Iowa Pre-Flight]] (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 1946
| coach_team4 = [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]] (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 1947–1963
| coach_team5 = Oklahoma
| coach_years6 = 1978–1979
| coach_team6 = [[St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)|St. Louis Cardinals]]
| admin_years1 = 1947–1964
| admin_team1 = [[Oklahoma Sooners|Oklahoma]]
| overall_record = 145–29–4 (college)<br>9–20 (NFL)
| bowl_record = 6–2
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 3 [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national]] (1950, 1955–1956)<br>14 [[Big Eight Conference|Big 6/7/8]] (1947–1959, 1962)
| awards = 
* [[AFCA Coach of the Year]] (1949)
* 8× [[Big Eight Conference football#Coach of the Year|Big Eight Coach of the Year]] (1948−1955)
* [[Amos Alonzo Stagg Award]] (1984)
* Second-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1935 College Football All-America Team|1935]])
* First-team [[List of All-Big Ten Conference football teams|All-Big Ten]] ([[1935 All-Big Ten Conference football team|1935]])
* Second-team All-Big Ten ([[1936 All-Big Ten Conference football team|1936]])
| coaching_records = 
| CFBHOF_year = 1969
| CFBHOF_id = 1794
| birthname = Charles Burnham Wilkinson
}}
'''Charles Burnham''' "'''Bud'''" '''Wilkinson''' (April 23, 1916 – February 9, 1994) was an [[American football]] player, coach, broadcaster, and politician. He served as the head football coach at the [[University of Oklahoma]] from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145–29–4. His [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma Sooners]] won three [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national championships]] (1950, 1955, and 1956) and 14 conference titles. Between 1953 and 1957, Wilkinson's Oklahoma squads won 47 straight games, a record that still stands at the highest level of [[college football]]. After retiring from coaching following the 1963 season, Wilkinson entered into politics and in 1965 became a broadcaster with [[ESPN on ABC|ABC Sports]]. He returned to coaching in 1978, as head coach of the [[St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)|St. Louis Cardinals]] of the [[National Football League]] (NFL) for two seasons. Wilkinson was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] as a coach in 1969.

==Early life and playing career==
Wilkinson's mother died when he was seven, and his father sent him to the [[Shattuck-St. Mary's|Shattuck School]] in [[Faribault, Minnesota]], where he excelled in five sports and graduated in 1933. He enrolled at the [[University of Minnesota]], where as a [[Guard (gridiron football)|guard]] and [[quarterback]] for head coach [[Bernie Bierman]], Wilkinson helped lead the [[Minnesota Golden Gophers football|Golden Gophers]] to three consecutive national championships from 1934 to 1936. He also played [[ice hockey]] for Minnesota. Following his graduation in 1937 with a degree in English, Wilkinson led the [[College All-Star Game|College All-Stars]] to a 6–0 victory over the defending [[National Football League|NFL]] champion [[Green Bay Packers]] in [[Chicago]] on August 31. He was drafted in the third round of the 1937 NFL Draft by the Packers (29th overall) but never played.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1937 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1937/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
After Wilkinson worked briefly for his father's mortgage company, he became an assistant coach at [[Syracuse University]] and later at his alma mater, Minnesota. In 1943, he joined the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] where he was an assistant to [[Don Faurot]] with the [[Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football]] team. He served as a hangar deck officer on the {{USS|Enterprise|CV-6|6}}. Following World War II, [[Jim Tatum]], the new head coach at the [[University of Oklahoma]], persuaded Wilkinson to join his staff in 1946. After one season in [[Norman, Oklahoma|Norman]], Tatum left the [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Sooners]] for the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]]. The 31-year-old Wilkinson was named head football coach and athletic director of the Sooners.

===Head coach at Oklahoma===
In his first season as head coach in 1947, Wilkinson led Oklahoma to a 7–2–1 record and a share of the conference championship, the first of 13 consecutive [[Big Eight Conference|Big Six/Seven/Eight Conference]] titles. Ultimately, Wilkinson became one of the most celebrated college coaches of all time. His teams captured national championships in 1950, 1955, and 1956, and they amassed a 145–29–4 (.826) overall record. Twice Minnesota attempted to hire him away from Oklahoma, in 1950 and 1953, but both times Wilkinson rebuffed his alma mater.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Madsen |first1=Rob |date=Spring 2023 |title=The Cost of Conservatism: The University of Minnesota's Lofted Ideals and Fallen Football Teams |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/918698 |journal=Journal of Sport History |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=85–100 |doi= 10.5406/21558450.50.1.06|access-date=|url-access=subscription }}</ref> OU football was placed on major NCAA probation twice in a five-year span (1955 and 1960) during Wilkinson's tenure for illegally paying players out of a $125,000 slush fund for a decade and a half after World War II ended.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dent |first=Jim |title=The Undefeated: The Oklahoma Sooners and the Greatest Winning Streak in College Football |publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=September 2002 |pages=47-49}}</ref>

The centerpiece of his time in Norman was a 47-game winning streak from 1953 to 1957, an [[NCAA Division I]] record that still stands. It has been approached only four times: by [[North Dakota State Bison football|North Dakota State]] in [[NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision|Division I FCS]] (39 wins, 2017–2021), [[Toledo Rockets football|Toledo]] (35 wins, 1969–1971), [[Miami Hurricanes football|Miami (FL)]] (34 wins, 2000–2003), and [[USC Trojans football|USC]] (34 wins, 2003–2005). Earlier, the Sooners ran off 31 consecutive wins from 1948 to 1950. Apart from two losses in 1951, Wilkinson's Sooners did not lose more than one game per season for 11 years between 1948 and 1958, going 107–8–2 over that period. His teams also went 12 consecutive seasons (1947–1958) without a loss in conference play, a streak which has never been seriously threatened. Wilkinson did not suffer his first conference loss until 1959 against [[Nebraska Cornhuskers football|Nebraska]], his 79th conference game.

Wilkinson had only one losing season, in 1960. However, during that season Wilkinson still passed [[Bennie Owen]] to become the winningest coach in Sooner history. Wilkinson's OU record has since been eclipsed by [[Barry Switzer]] and [[Bob Stoops]].

While coaching at OU, Wilkinson began writing a weekly newsletter to alumni during the season to keep them interested in Sooner football. He also became the first football coach to host his own television show. With Michigan State University coach [[Duffy Daugherty]], Wilkinson sponsored a series of clinics for high school coaches nationwide. Later, they turned their clinics into a profitable business.<ref name="McGregor">[http://www.anb.org/articles/19/19-01023-print.html McGregor, Andrew."Wilkinson, Bud". ''American National Biography Online''. February 2000.] Accessed October 6, 2016.</ref>

Following the 1963 season, his 17th at Oklahoma, Wilkinson retired from coaching at the age of 47.

===President's Council on Physical Fitness===
[[File:JFK-Bud Wilkinson.jpg|thumb|left|262x262px|President [[John F. Kennedy]] with Bud Wilkinson in the [[Oval Office]] in 1961]]

While at Oklahoma, Wilkinson served on the [[President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports|President's Council on Physical Fitness]] from 1961 to 1964. He designed 11 floor exercises for schoolchildren that were incorporated into the song "[[Chicken Fat (song)|Chicken Fat]]",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/06/13/chicken_fat_song_apple_iphone_5s_commercial_uses_kennedy_era_exercise_anthem.html|title=The Strange 1960s Gym-Class Anthem in Apple's New iPhone Commercial|first=Ben|last=Yagoda|author-link=Ben Yagoda|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|date=June 13, 2014|access-date=June 23, 2014}}</ref> the theme song for President John F. Kennedy's youth fitness program,<ref name=JFKPE>{{cite web| title= The Federal Government Takes on Physical Fitness | publisher= John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum | url= http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Physical-Fitness.aspx?p=2 | page=2 |access-date=June 19, 2014}}</ref> which was widely used in school gymnasiums across the country in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=Riis>{{cite news|last1=Riis|first1=Richard|title=Apple's "Chicken Fat" Ad Harks Back to a Political Era Long Gone|url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/09/1305530/-Apple-s-Chicken-Fat-Ads-Hark-Back-to-a-Political-Era-Long-Gone|access-date=June 19, 2014|publisher=[[Daily Kos]]|date=June 9, 2014}}</ref>

==Later life and career==
===1964 Senate Bid===
[[File:Nixon meeting with golf pro Arnold Palmer, Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers, Green Bay Packer’s Bart Starr, Coach Charles Bud Wilkinson, Sportscaster Chris Schenkel on February 13, 1969 - Nixon Contact Sheet WHPO-0280 (cropped).jpg|thumb|262x262px|President Nixon meeting with golf pro [[Arnold Palmer]], [[Al Kaline]] of the Detroit Tigers, the Green Bay Packers' [[Bart Starr]], Coach Bud Wilkinson, and sportscaster [[Chris Schenkel]] on February 13, 1969]]

{{main|1964 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma}}

In February, 1964, Wilkinson announced that he would enter a special election to replace his friend, the late [[Robert S. Kerr]], as U. S. Senator from Oklahoma. He had already resigned his position as head coach of the Oklahoma University Sooners. {{efn|According to reporter Andrew McGregor, following the deaths of Senator Kerr, President John F. Kennedy and his own brother, all during the previous year, the former coach wanted to pursue "...what he considered to be a more impactful and significant career."<ref name="sporthistory">[https://ussporthistory.com/2014/11/24/beyond-football-the-political-career-of-bud-wilkinson-part-2/ McGregor, Andrew. "Beyond Football: The Political Career of Bud Wilkinson (Part 2)." ''Sport in American History''. November 24, 2014.] Accessed October 6, 2016</ref>}} Politicians and the Oklahoma press debated whether he was qualified to become a U. S. Senator, though all seemed to agree that his popularity as a cultural icon gave him an important edge. Easily winning the Republican primary, Wilkinson became the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] in 1964, at which point he legally changed his first name to Bud, but narrowly lost to [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Fred R. Harris]], then a State Senator in Oklahoma. Both parties involved political heavyweights from out of state to campaign for their candidates. Republicans invited former President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] and [[United States Senator|Senator]] [[Barry Goldwater]]. Illness made Eisenhower miss the occasion,{{citation needed | date=April 2023}} so his former Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] served as substitute. Harris supporters got President Lyndon Johnson to make an appearance, as well as several other national Democrats. Wilkinson's Republican advisers brought in Senator [[Strom Thurmond]] to appeal to ultra-conservative voters in Little Dixie, which had recently turned reliably Republican. That effort backfired. Harris later said, "my campaign got an extra benefit from Senator Thurmond's Oklahoma visit … Thurmond wound up scaring the daylights out of even a lot of conservative white voters with his jingoist speeches, advocating for the escalation of the American war effort in Vietnam."{{citation needed | date=April 2023}}

In the 1964 General Election, Wilkinson lost by a narrow 51% to 49% and could not overcome Republican [[President of the United States|presidential]] nominee, [[United States Senator|Senator]] [[Barry Goldwater]]’s loss to incumbent President [[Lyndon Baines Johnson]] by 55% to 45% in Oklahoma. Through 2020, Johnson is the last Democrat to carry Oklahoma in a presidential election.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/exhibit/harris/Harrisexhibit.htm
 |title       = Fred R. Harris: His political career
 |work        = [[Carl Albert Center|Carl Albert Center Archives]] at the [[University of Oklahoma]]
 |date        = April 3, 2009
 |access-date  = November 20, 2011
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120203024705/http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/exhibit/harris/Harrisexhibit.htm
 |archive-date = February 3, 2012
}}</ref> Wilkinson entertained seeking the other Oklahoma U.S. Senate seat in 1968, but he did not run, and the position went to former [[governor of Oklahoma|Governor]] [[Henry Bellmon]], also a Republican.

==== Election results ====
{{Election box begin no change
| title = 1964 U.S. Senate special election, Republican primary
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Bud Wilkinson
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 100,544
| percentage = 79.22%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Thomas J. Harris
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 19,170
| percentage = 15.10%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Forest W. Beall
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 7,211
| percentage = 5.68%
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 126,925	
| percentage= 100.00%
}}
{{Election box end}}
<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our Campaigns - OK US Senate - Special R Primary Race - May 05, 1964|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=765212|access-date=2021-08-28|website=www.ourcampaigns.com}}</ref>
{{Election box begin | title=1964 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma<ref name="1958-1966"/>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
 |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 |candidate  = [[Fred R. Harris]]
 |votes      = 466,782
 |percentage = 51.17%
 |change     = -3.67%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party      = Republican Party (United States)
 |candidate  = [[Bud Wilkinson]]
 |votes      = 445,392
 |percentage = 48.83%
 |change     = +4.22%
}}
{{Election box majority|
 |votes      = 21,390
 |percentage = 2.34%
 |change     = -7.89%
}}
{{Election box turnout|
 |votes      = 912,174
 |percentage = 
 |change     = 
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing|
  |winner     = Democratic Party (United States)
  |loser      = Republican Party (United States)
  |swing      = 
}}
{{Election box end}}

===Broadcasting and NFL coaching===
In 1965, Wilkinson joined [[ABC Sports]] as their lead [[color commentator]] on college football telecasts, teaming with [[Chris Schenkel]] and, later, [[Keith Jackson]]. Wilkinson was the color analyst for four of the greatest games in college football history, each commonly referred to as a "[[Game of the Century (college football)|Game of the Century]]": [[1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game|Notre Dame vs. Michigan State in 1966]], [[1967 UCLA vs. USC football game|UCLA vs. USC in 1967]], [[1969 Texas vs. Arkansas football game|Texas vs. Arkansas in 1969]], and [[1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game|Nebraska vs. Oklahoma in 1971]].<ref>[http://www.soonersvideo.com/2019/08/1-nebraska-at-2-oklahoma-1971.html #1 Nebraska at #2 Oklahoma - 1971]. SoonersVideo.com: #1 Nebraska at #2 Oklahoma - 1971</ref>

Wilkinson was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] in 1969.

In 1975, he received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#sports}}</ref>

In 1978, Wilkinson returned to coaching with the [[St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)|St. Louis Cardinals]] of the [[National Football League|NFL]]. After less than two disappointing seasons, he was fired, and returned to broadcasting with [[ESPN]].

===Death===
Wilkinson suffered a series of minor strokes and, on February 9, 1994, he died of [[congestive heart failure]] in [[St. Louis]] at the age of 77.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WI013|title=Wilkinson, Charles Burnham (1916–1994)|publisher=[[Oklahoma Historical Society]]|last=Nichols|first=Max|access-date=July 18, 2018}}</ref> He is interred at Oak Grove Cemetery in [[St. Louis|St. Louis, Missouri]].

==Personal life==
Wilkinson was married to the former Mary Schifflet in 1938, with whom he had two sons, Pat and Jay. They divorced in 1975. A year later, he married Donna O'Donnahue, 33 years his junior, who survived him in death.

==Head coaching record==
===College===
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = both }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma Sooners]]
 | conf      = [[Big Eight Conference|Big Six / Big Seven / Big Eight Conference]]
 | startyear = 1947
 | endyear   = 1963
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1947 college football season|1947]]
 | name         = [[1947 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 7–2–1
 | conference   = 4–0–1
 | confstanding = 1st
 | ranking2     = 16
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1948 college football season|1948]]
 | name         = [[1948 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 10–1
 | conference   = 5–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1949 Sugar Bowl|Sugar]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | ranking2     = 5
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1949 college football season|1949]]
 | name         = [[1949 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 11–0
 | conference   = 5–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1950 Sugar Bowl|Sugar]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | ranking2     = 2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = national
 | year         = [[1950 college football season|1950]]
 | name         = [[1950 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 10–1
 | conference   = 6–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1951 Sugar Bowl|Sugar]]
 | bowloutcome  = L
 | ranking      = 1
 | ranking2     = 1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1951 college football season|1951]]
 | name         = [[1951 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 8–2
 | conference   = 6–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | ranking      = 11
 | ranking2     = 10
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1952 college football season|1952]]
 | name         = [[1952 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 8–1–1
 | conference   = 5–0–1
 | confstanding = 1st
 | ranking      = 4
 | ranking2     = 4
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1953 college football season|1953]]
 | name         = [[1953 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 9–1–1
 | conference   = 6–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1954 Orange Bowl|Orange]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | ranking      = 5
 | ranking2     = 4
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1954 college football season|1954]]
 | name         = [[1954 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 10–0
 | conference   = 6–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | ranking      = 3
 | ranking2     = 3
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = national
 | year         = [[1955 college football season|1955]]
 | name         = [[1955 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 11–0
 | conference   = 6–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1956 Orange Bowl|Orange]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | ranking      = 1
 | ranking2     = 1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = national
 | year         = [[1956 college football season|1956]]
 | name         = [[1956 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 10–0
 | conference   = 6–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | ranking      = 1
 | ranking2     = 1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1957 college football season|1957]]
 | name         = [[1957 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 10–1
 | conference   = 6–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1958 Orange Bowl|Orange]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | ranking      = 4
 | ranking2     = 4
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1958 college football season|1958]]
 | name         = [[1958 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 10–1
 | conference   = 7–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1959 Orange Bowl|Orange]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | ranking      = 5
 | ranking2     = 5
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1959 college football season|1959]]
 | name         = [[1959 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 7–3
 | conference   = 6–1
 | confstanding = 1st
 | ranking      = 15
 | ranking2     = 15
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1960 college football season|1960]]
 | name         = [[1960 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 3–6–1
 | conference   = 2–4–1
 | confstanding = 5th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1961 college football season|1961]]
 | name         = [[1961 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 5–5
 | conference   = 4–3
 | confstanding = 4th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1962 NCAA University Division football season|1962]]
 | name         = [[1962 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 8–3
 | conference   = 7–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1963 Orange Bowl|Orange]]
 | bowloutcome  = L
 | ranking      = 7
 | ranking2     = 8
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1963 NCAA University Division football season|1963]]
 | name         = [[1963 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
 | overall      = 8–2
 | conference   = 6–1
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | ranking      = 8
 | ranking2     = 9
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Oklahoma
 | overall    = 145–29–4
 | confrecord = 93–9–3
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 145–29–4
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = two
 | polltype = 
}}

===NFL===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"|Team !! rowspan="2"|Year !! colspan="5"|Regular season<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/WilkBu0.htm|title=Bud Wilkinson Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks - Pro-Football-Reference.com|website=[[Pro-Football-Reference.com]]}}</ref> !! colspan="4"|Post season
|-
!Won!!Lost!!Ties!!Win %!!Finish!! Won !! Lost !! Win % !! Result
|-
![[1978 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season|SLC]]||[[1978 NFL season|1978]]
||6||10||0||.375||4th in NFC East|| – || – || – || –
|-
![[1979 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season|SLC]]||[[1979 NFL season|1979]]
||3||10||0||.231||Fired Mid-Season|| – || – || – || –
|-
! colspan="2"|SLC Total||9||20||0||{{Winning percentage|9|20}}||||||||{{Winning percentage||}}||
|-
! colspan="2"|Total||9||20||0||{{Winning percentage|9|20}}||||||||{{Winning percentage||}}||
|}

==Works==
* ''Bud Wilkinson's Guide to Modern Physical Fitness.'' New York: Viking, 1967.
* ''Football: Winning Defense.'' Lanham, MD: Sports Illustrated Books, 1993.
* ''Football: Winning Offense.'' Lanham, MD: Sports Illustrated Books, 1994.
* ''Modern Defensive Football.'' Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1957. With Gomer Jones
* ''Oklahoma Split T Football.'' Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1952.


==See also==
* [[Oklahoma drill]]

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons}}
* {{College Football HoF|1794}}
* {{IMDb name|1357481}}
* {{Find a Grave|33684429}}
* [http://www.voicesofoklahoma.com/interview/wilkinson-bud/ Voices of Oklahoma interview with Jay Wilkinson] First person interview conducted on February 9, 2012, with Jay Wilkinson about his father, Bud Wilkinson.

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| title = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for [[United States Senator]] from [[List of United States Senators from Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]<br />([[Classes of United States Senators|Class 2]])
| years = [[1964 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma|1964]]
| after = Pat H. Patterson
}}
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