User:Knap6123/Zac Spavital

Zachary Bryan Spavital was born July 15, 1982 to Steve a highschool football coach, and Tina a school teacher. Spavital was a standout football player at Tulsa Union highschool where he starred at Safety and punter and helped his team get to three 6A State Championship games.

A native of Tulsa, Okla., Spavital played football at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M for two seasons before transferring to Murray State in Kentucky where he played for two years. He was an All-Conference and All-Region selection and was named a Gridwire Scholar All-American.

Spavital spent the three seasons as the defensive graduate assistant on Bob Stoops' staff, where he worked closely with the defensive backfield. Spavital helped lead Oklahoma to a pair of Big 12 titles and two appearances in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

Statistically, in each of the past three seasons, the Sooners' defense ranked at the top of the Big 12 and among the elite in the country in total defense.

In Spavital's three years in Norman, Oklahoma never finished outside of the top two in total defense in the Big 12, leading the league in both 2005 and 2006 while ranking second in 2007.

Nationally, the Sooners ranked 13th in total defense in 2005, 16th in 2006 and 26th in 2007.

He has coached four players who earned All-Big 12 honors and five players who went on to sign NFL contracts including 2007 third-round NFL Draft pick Reggie Smith.