Robert Anthony Stoops is an American 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.
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Bob Stoops played college football at the University of Iowa as a defensive back from 1979 to 1982.
Prior his tenure at Oklahoma, Bob Stoops held various assistant coaching positions at the University of Iowa, Kent State University, Kansas State University, and the University of Florida.
Bob Stoops’ 2000 Oklahoma Sooners football team won the 2001 Orange Bowl, which served as the BCS National Championship Game, and earned a consensus national championship.
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Bob Stoops was awarded the Paul “Bear” Bryant Award in 2000 and the Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award in 2000 and 2003.
In 2020, Bob Stoops Stoops was head coach and general manager for the Dallas Renegades of the XFL.
Bob Stoops was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2021.
Who coached Oklahoma in the Alamo Bowl?
Bob Stoops returned to the sidelines as the interim head coach for Oklahoma and led the Sooners to a 47-32 Alamo Bowl victory over Oregon on Wednesday, December 29, 2021.


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