# Oklahoma Baptist Bison football

The Oklahoma Baptist Bison football team represents Oklahoma Baptist University in college football at the NCAA Division II level. The Bison are members of the Great American Conference (GAC), fielding its team in the GAC since 2013. The team plays home games at Crain Family Stadium in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Baptist's head coach is Chris Jensen, who took over the position for the 2013 season when the school revived its football program for the first time since 1940.

## Conference affiliations

* Independent (1910–1921)
* Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1922–1928)
* Big Four Conference (1929–1932)
* Independent (1933–1935)
* Oklahoma Collegiate Conference (1936–1940)
* Central States Football League (2013–2014)
* Great American Conference (2015–present)

## List of head coaches
### Key

Key to symbols in coaches list :
| General | General | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Postseason | Postseason |
| No. | Order of coaches | GC | Games coached | CW | Conference wins | PW | Postseason wins |
| DC | Division championships | OW | Overall wins | CL | Conference losses | PL | Postseason losses |
| CC | Conference championships | OL | Overall losses | CT | Conference ties | PT | Postseason ties |
| NC | National championships | OT | Overall ties | C% | Conference winning percentage | | |
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage | | | | |

### Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records and conference records :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% |
| 1 | Robert E. Kennedy | 1910 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | Clyde Becker | 1911 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0.250 | – | – | – | – |
| 3 | William L. Clark | 1915 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – |
| 4 | Bill Smith | 1916 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0.300 | – | – | – | – |
| 5 | Unknown | 1918 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – |
| 6 | Oliver Talmage Marston | 1919 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0.167 | – | – | – | – |
| 7 | Ivan Grove | 1920–1921 | 19 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0.447 | – | – | – | – |
| 8 | Roland E. Lee | 1922 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0.250 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0.188 |
| 9 | Vic Hurt | 1923–1929, 1931–1934 | 99 | 63 | 29 | 7 | 0.672 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 0.711 |
| 10 | Archie W. Butcher | 1930 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0.444 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 |
| 11 | Eddie Hurt Jr. | 1935–1938 | 40 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 0.527 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0.688 |
| 12 | Windy Nicklaus | 1939–1940 | 21 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0.786 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0.792 |
| 13 | Chris Jensen | 2013–present | 100 | 38 | 62 | 0 | 0.380 | 31 | 56 | 0 | 0.356 |

## Year-by-year results

| National champions | Conference champions | Bowl game berth | Playoff berth |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | | | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Season | Year | Head coach | Association | Division | Conference | Win | Loss | Tie | Finish | Win | Loss | Tie | Postseason | Final ranking |
| Oklahoma Baptist Bison |||||||||||||||
| 1910 | 1910 | Robert E. Kennedy | NCAA | — | Independent | | | | | | | | — | — |
| 1911 | 1911 | Clyde Becker | NCAA | — | Independent | 1 | 4 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| No team from 1912 to 1914 |||||||||||||||
| 1915 | 1915 | William L. Clark | NCAA | — | Independent | 0 | 3 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1916 | 1916 | Bill Smith | NCAA | — | Independent | 1 | 3 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| No team in 1917 |||||||||||||||
| 1918 | 1918 | Unknown | NCAA | — | Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | | | | | | |
| 1919 | 1919 | Oliver Talmage Martson | NCAA | — | Independent | 1 | 7 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| 1920 | 1920 | Ivan Grove | NCAA | — | Independent | 5 | 5 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1921 | 1921 | Ivan Grove | NCAA | — | Independent | 3 | 5 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| 1922 | 1922 | Roland E. Lee | NCAA | — | OIC | 2 | 7 | 1 | 9th | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | — |
| 1923 | 1923 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | OIC | 4 | 4 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| 1924 | 1924 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | OIC | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2nd | 6 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1925 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | OIC | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2nd | 6 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 1926 | 1926 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | OIC | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3rd | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 1927 | 1927 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | OIC | 6 | 1 | 2 | T–1st | 5 | 1 | 1 | Conference co-champions | — |
| 1928 | 1928 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | OIC | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2nd | 4 | 1 | 2 | — | — |
| 1929 | 1929 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | BFC | 5 | 3 | 0 | T–2nd | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 1930 | 1930 | Archie W. Butcher | NCAA | — | BFC | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4th | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 1931 | 1931 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | BFC | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3rd | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| 1932 | 1932 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | BFC | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2nd | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 1933 | 1933 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | Independent | 6 | 2 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| 1934 | 1934 | Vic Hurt | NCAA | — | Independent | 7 | 2 | 0 | | | | | — | — |
| 1935 | 1935 | Eddie Hurt Jr. & Sam W. Wilcoxson | NCAA | — | Independent | 2 | 6 | 1 | | | | | — | — |
| 1936 | 1936 | Eddie Hurt Jr. | NCAA | — | OCC | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5th | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| 1937 | 1937 | Eddie Hurt Jr. | NCAA | — | OCC | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2nd | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 1938 | 1938 | Eddie Hurt Jr. | NCAA | — | OCC | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2nd | 5 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| 1939 | 1939 | Windy Nicklaus | NCAA | — | OCC | 8 | 2 | 0 | T–2nd | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| 1940 | 1940 | Windy Nicklaus | NCAA | — | OCC | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1st | 5 | 0 | 1 | Conference champions | — |
| No team from 1941 to 2012 |||||||||||||||
| 2013 | 2013 | Chris Jensen | NAIA | — | CSFL | 3 | 8 | 0 | 4th | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2014 | Chris Jensen | NAIA | — | CSFL | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3rd | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2015 | Chris Jensen | NCAA | Division II | GAC | 2 | 9 | 0 | 10th | 2 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2016 | Chris Jensen | NCAA | Division II | GAC | 2 | 9 | 0 | T–10th | 2 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2017 | Chris Jensen | NCAA | Division II | GAC | 2 | 9 | 0 | T–11th | 2 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2018 | Chris Jensen | NCAA | Division II | GAC | 5 | 6 | 0 | T–6th | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2019 | Chris Jensen | NCAA | Division II | GAC | 7 | 4 | 0 | 5th | 7 | 4 | 0 | — | — |
| No team in 2020 due to COVID-19 |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | Chris Jensen | NCAA | Division II | GAC | 8 | 4 | 0 | T–5th | 7 | 4 | 0 | W Heritage | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | Chris Jensen | NCAA | Division II | GAC | 1 | 10 | 0 | T–11th | 1 | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2023 | Chris Jensen | NCAA | Division II | GAC | 6 | 5 | 0 | T–5th | 6 | 5 | 0 | — | — |