Bob Stoops led the Arlington Renegades to the 2023 XFL Championship and is entering his third season as the team’s head coach in 2024. With the team’s 35-26 victory over the D.C. Defenders in the 2023 XFL Championship Game on May 13, 2023 at The Alamodome in San Antonio, Stoops became just the fifth head coach to win a championship at both the professional and college levels. The former Oklahoma coach, who won the 2000 BCS National Championship, joined Pete Carroll (Seattle Seahawks / USC), Jimmy Johnson (Dallas Cowboys / Miami), Barry Switzer (Dallas Cowboys / Oklahoma), and Paul Brown (Cleveland Browns / Ohio State) in the exclusive club.

Stoops was originally named head coach of the Renegades on Feb. 7, 2019 and guided the team through five games of the abbreviated 2020 XFL campaign before returning to the same role in 2023. He was the only 2020 XFL head coach to return to the League in the same capacity as 2020.

Prior to joining the professional ranks, Stoops spent more than 30 years as a college coach, including 18 seasons as head coach at Oklahoma from 1999-2016. He briefly returned to Oklahoma on an interim basis in 2021, leading the Sooners to a win in the Alamo Bowl. Stoops is the winningest coach in Oklahoma program history, with a 191-78 (.799) all-time record. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2021. 

Stoops led the Sooners to a school-record 18 consecutive bowl games, including a BCS National Championship in 2000 in just his second season at the helm. He guided the team to 10 Big 12 championships, and no other program won more than two conference titles during his 18 years in Norman. Stoops coached four Oklahoma quarterbacks that either won the Heisman Trophy under his watch, or would go on to win the award after his retirement: Jason White (2003), Sam Bradford (2008), Baker Mayfield (2017), and Kyler Murray (2018).

The Youngstown, Ohio native is a six-time winner of the Big 12 Coach of the Year award and won the Paul “Bear” Bryant Award as the nation’s top college coach in 2000. He also won a National Championship as an assistant coach at Florida in 1996. Stoops was a defensive back at the University of Iowa and earned Team MVP honors in 1982. He was teammates at Iowa with two current Renegades assistant coaches: Jonathan Hayes (co-Offensive Coordinator) and Chuck Long (co-Offensive Coordinator).