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Super Bowl Sooners: Oklahoma Leads All Schools in Alumni Headed to Vegas

The San Francisco 49ers have two former Sooners in the big game, while the Kansas City Chiefs have four.

John E. Hoover

Super Bowl Sooners: Oklahoma Leads All Schools in Alumni Headed to Vegas
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There's only one college with six alumni playing in the Super Bowl.

And it's Oklahoma.

For the second year in a row, the Sooners lead all college football programs in Super Bowl participants. It took victories by San Francisco and Kansas City in Sunday's conference championship games, but the Sooners are sending six players to Las Vegas for Super Bowl 58 in two weeks.

The Chiefs beat the Ravens 17-10 in Baltimore in Sunday's early game, and the 49ers beat the Detroit Lions 34-31 in Santa Clara on Sunday night.

From Kansas City, center Creed Humphrey, tight end Blake Bell, long snapper James Winchester and offensive lineman Wanya Morris are Super Bowl bound. For Winchester and Bell have already won two Super Bowls (2020 and 2023) while Humphrey has won one (2023). Morris is a rookie.

In San Francisco, Trent Williams is a 13-year NFL veteran and an 11-time Pro Bowl left tackle, but this will be his first Super Bowl. Brayden Willis is a Niners rookie tight end.

Last year's Super Bowl featured eight former Sooners, with Humphrey, Winchester, Bell and left tackle Orlando Brown representing the Chiefs and quarterback Jalen Hurts and right tackle Lane Johnson representing the Philadelphia Eagles, while former Sooners Trey Sermon and Grant Calcaterra were on the roster as well.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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