If history was made by Oklahoma during its spring game weekend, then history was made in the Big 12. And if history was made in the Big 12, then history was made across the country, as Oklahoma picked up a total of 14 stars in a mere three hours. 

And that was just Friday.

The Sooners became—best we can tell—the first football program to leapfrog from outside of the top 10 to the top spot in team recruiting service rankings in a single spring afternoon since recruiting services became a thing.

If that sounds a bit like a baseball player hitting .800 on Sundays, in a dome, in the National League during the month of June, that’s because it is. And it's every bit as joyous as it's happening. 

Sorry 4 the wait. pic.twitter.com/Z7kzjSagVF

— TREJ (@trejanbridges) April 13, 2018

In all, the Sooners picked up six commitments between 1 PM Friday and 3 PM CT Sunday.

Highlighting the group are verbal commitments from five-star wide receiver Arjei Henderson, five-star wide receiver Theo Wease, and four-star safety Jamal Morris. This assortment of one of the richest one-day recruiting hauls of the year is buoyed by the best pro-style quarterback in the 2019 class in Spencer Rattler—whom I wrote about here—and four-star wide receiver Trejan Bridges. 

Recruiting: Oklahoma Sooners are on a mission

Now, this is where we start arguing about the value of the 24/7 Composite rankings, looking at the ESPN300 like it’s drunk and needs to go home and embrace the level-headedness of the Rivals rankings since the Sooners look way better over there. We’re going to go on as if they’re the only ones that matter for the purpose of this piece, and my life as an OU fan.

We not even close to being done ? https://t.co/emwcWbTev6

— Theo Wease Jr (@_TheoWeaseJr) April 14, 2018

In just 24 hours, the Sooners earned enough high-end commitments to vault from No. 12 to No. 1 in the Rivals.com team rankings. And it wasn’t at all by chance. Oklahoma made its spring game into a full-blown skeptical.

There was a 50-yard race between the Sooners’ fastest wide receiver, Marquise “Hollywood” Brown, and an OU student. 

There was Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley picking up the tuition tab for an OU student who missed the field goal she had to make to earn free school for a semester. 

There was the 45-minute concert Oklahoma paid country music star Trace Adkins $115,000 to sing for, despite the fact that his music sounds a lot like dying cats. 

And there was 15-year-old James Woods’ touchdown. Woods cannot play football because of a brain tumor. His 29-yard score meant more than any other on Saturday.

On top of all of this, the Sooners played a full half of football after splitting the roster into two teams—winner ate steak and the loser ate green beans and weenies for dinner. 

Despite weather that was nasty, enough Oklahoma fans showed to break the school record for spring game attendance (52,102).

This was Riley showing his class, his youth, and his savvy as the head man of a blue-blood program that was just a few recruits and a fired defensive coordinator away from playing in a national title. 

Riley still hasn't done anything with the coordinator, but, clearly, stockpiling elite recruits won't be an issue.

Editor's Note: Believe it or not, Oklahoma added a seventh commitment from Notre Dame graduate transfer defensive end Jay Haynes, late Sunday afternoon. Haynes' former defensive coordinator, Bob Diaco, recently joined the Sooners' staff as a defensive analyst.

RJ Young is a former Oklahoma Sooners football and basketball beat writer, investigative journalist, essayist, novelist, and Ph.D student. His memoir "LET IT BANG" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) hits shelves and earbuds in October. His YouTube channel is fire if you're into storytelling and topics ranging from Baker Mayfield to The Rock's early wrestling career to this one time when a guy got a little too interested in RJ's "Black Panther" cup at a urinal inside of a movie theater.