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Murray Featured on Cover of SI
December 14, 2018 | Football
Kyler Murray is featured on the College Football Playoff Preview edition of Sports Illustrated, which hit newsstands this week.
The issue features a story on Murray from SI senior writer Andy Staples and a season in pictures section that includes a two-page spread of Grant Calcaterra's one-handed catch in the Big 12 Championship Game.
Sooners have been featured on the cover more than 40 times in the magazine's 64 years of existence. In fact, OU fans were the subject of the publication's first test issue in 1953 before Sports Illustrated became its official name. The same image was later used on SI's 12th-ever issue, dated Nov. 1, 1954.
Among college football programs, only Ohio State has made more SI cover appearances than Oklahoma.
Sooners SI Covers
Kyler Murray
May 6, 2019
Kyler Murray
Dec. 22, 2018
Baker Mayfield
April 23, 2018
Baker Mayfield
Dec. 25, 2017
Baker Mayfield
Dec. 14, 2017
Baker Mayfield
Dec. 4, 2017
Buddy Hield
Apr. 4, 2016
Buddy Hield
Mar. 15, 2016
Sterling Shepard
Dec. 24, 2015
Trevor Knight
Aug. 18, 2014
Landry Jones
Aug. 20, 2012
Landry Jones
Aug. 22, 2011
Sam Bradford
Apr. 26, 2010
Blake Griffin
Mar. 30, 2009
Courtney Paris, Blake Griffin
Mar. 23, 2009
Sam Bradford
Dec. 1, 2008
Blake Griffin, Courtney Paris
Nov. 17, 2008
Allen Patrick
Aug. 22, 2007
Adrian Peterson
Apr. 30, 2007
Adrian Peterson
Oct. 11, 2004
Jason White
Aug. 16, 2004
Jason White
Oct. 20, 2003
Trent Smith
Oct. 21, 2002
Tommie Harris
Aug. 12, 2002
Jimmy Wilkerson
Oct. 15, 2001
Quentin Griffin
Jan. 8, 2001
Quentin Griffin
Nov. 6, 2000
Josh Heupel
Feb. 1, 2000
OU vs. Nebraska
Nov. 30, 1987
Rotnei Anderson
Nov. 16, 1987
Brian Bosworth
Sept. 3, 1986
Marcus Dupree
June 20, 1983
Billy Sims
Oct. 3, 1977
Steve Davis
Sept. 8, 1975
Joe Washington
Nov. 4, 1974
Greg Pruitt
Oct. 2, 1972
Game of the Century
Nov. 22, 1971
Steve Owens
Nov. 10, 1969
Clendon Thomas
Nov. 18, 1957
Dan Hodge
Apr. 1, 1957
Bud Wilkinson
Sept. 12, 1955
Oklahoma Fans
Nov. 1, 1954
Players Mentioned
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