 Jim Lookabaugh led the Aggies for eleven seasons, which included a 9–0 campaign and a national championship in 1945 which followed an 8–1 season the year before.Lookabaugh was an OSU alum who lettered in multiple sports.In October 2016, Oklahoma State was retroactively awarded the 1945 national championship by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) even though the 1945 Army team was the unanimous AP champion and is widely considered one of the greatest football teams of all time (Army did not apply to the AFCA for the honor; OSU remains the only team to apply for any of the 28 years considered).