Bob Stoops

Bob Stoops
	Stoops in 2021
Arlington Renegades
Position:	Head coach
Personal information
Born:	September 9, 1960 (age 64); Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.
Career information
High school:	Youngstown (OH) Cardinal Mooney
College:	Iowa (1979–1982)
Undrafted:	1983
Career history
As a coach:
	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–present); Head coach;
Career highlights and awards
	Championships XFL (2023); BCS national champion (2000); 10× Big 12 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006–2008, 2010, 2012, 2015–2016); 8× Big 12 South Division (2000, 2002–2004, 2006–2008, 2010); Awards 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); 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 3–7 (.300)
Postseason:	XFL 2–0 (1.000)
Career:	NCAA 191–48 (.799); XFL 8–9 (.471); UFL 3–7 (.300)
	College Football Hall of Fame

Robert Anthony Stoops (born September 9, 1960) is an American football coach who is the head coach for the Arlington Renegades of the United Football League (UFL). He 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. Since 2020, Stoops has been a head coach with the XFL, coaching the Renegades in 2020 and has been re-signed for 2023.^[2] 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.^[3] Stoops has been nicknamed "Big Game Bob" by both supporters and detractors.^[4]

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

^ "Oklahoma Sooners' Bob Stoops and Sterling Shepard to Accept 2014 Disney Sports Spirit Award".
^ "Stoops back in the coaching saddle". SoonerSports.com. February 7, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
^ "Walter Camp's 2006 "Coach of the Year"" (Press release). WalterCamp.org. Archived from the original on October 10, 2007.
^ Grathoff, Pete (December 31, 2015). "Clemson beats Oklahoma, and the 'Big Game Bob' jokes soon follow". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

[1] "Oklahoma Sooners' Bob Stoops and Sterling Shepard to Accept 2014 Disney Sports Spirit Award".

[2] "Stoops back in the coaching saddle". SoonerSports.com. February 7, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019.

[3] "Walter Camp's 2006 "Coach of the Year"" (Press release). WalterCamp.org. Archived from the original on October 10, 2007.

[BigGameBob-4] Grathoff, Pete (December 31, 2015). "Clemson beats Oklahoma, and the 'Big Game Bob' jokes soon follow". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

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