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NCAA Streaking: FSU Has A Long Way To Go

SO DO CLEMSON AND SOUTH CAROLINA …  By FITSNEWS  ||  Florida State University has won 28 consecutive football games – a streak that began on December 1, 2012 with a 21-15 victory over Georgia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship game. The third-ranked Seminoles will play Georgia Tech…

SO DO CLEMSON AND SOUTH CAROLINA … 

By FITSNEWS  ||  Florida State University has won 28 consecutive football games – a streak that began on December 1, 2012 with a 21-15 victory over Georgia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship game.

The third-ranked Seminoles will play Georgia Tech again this weekend for the ACC crown – and if they win they’re a lock to make the first-ever NCAA Division I college football playoff.  But even if FSU wins out and pushes its winning streak to 31 games, they’ve still got a ways to go to match the longest winning streak ever.

That streak began on October 10, 1953 in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas – where the No. 16 Oklahoma Sooners defeated fifteenth-ranked Texas to go to 1-1-1 on their young season.

The Sooners would win their remaining eight games that year … and then go undefeated in 1954, 1955 and 1956 (claiming national championships those latter two years).  Not only that, they would win their first seven games of 1957 before falling to Notre Dame on November 16.

That’s a streak of 47 straight wins … meaning Florida State would need to finish this year undefeated, go 15-0 next season and win its season-opener in 2016 just to tie the Sooners’ mark.

Can they do it?  Eh … it’s not looking good at the moment.

NCAA DIVISION-I WINNING STREAKS

TEAM – WINS – (SPOILER) – YEARS
1. Oklahoma – 47 – (Notre Dame) – 1953–57
2. Washington – 40 – (Oregon State) – 1908–14
3. (tie) Yale -37 – (Princeton) – 1890–93
3. (tie) Yale – 37 – (Princeton) – 1887–89
5. Toledo – 35 – (Tampa) – 1969–71
6. (tie) USC – 34 – (Texas) – 2003–05
6. (tie) Miami – 34 – (Ohio State) – 2000–03
6. (tie) Penn – 34 – (Lafayette) – 1894–96
9. (tie) Oklahoma – 31 – (Kentucky) – 1948–50
9. (tie) Pittsburgh – 31 – (Cleveland Naval Reserve) – 1914–18
9. (tie) Penn – 31 – (Harvard) – 1896–98
12. Texas – 30 – (Notre Dame) – 1968–70
13. (tie) Miami – 29 – (Alabama) – 1990–93
13. (tie) Michigan – 29 – (Minnesota) – 1901–03
15. (tie) Florida State 28 – (???) – 2012–14*
15. (tie) Alabama – 28 – (Tennessee) – 1991–93
15. (tie) Alabama – 28 – (Mississippi State) – 1978–80
15. (tie) Oklahoma – 28 – (Kansas) – 1973–75
15. (tie) Michigan State – 28 Purdue) – 1950–53
20. (tie) Nebraska – 26 -Arizona State) – 1994–96
20. (tie)Cornell – 26 – Williams) – 1921–24
20. (tie) Michigan – 26 – Chicago) – 1903–05

* Active Streak

For those of you keeping score at home, Clemson University’s longest-ever winning streak is fifteen games.  It began in Tigertown on November 8, 1947 with a 35-7 win over Furman and ended on September 24, 1949 with a 33-7 loss on the road against Rice.

South Carolina’s longest win streak?  Ten games.  It began at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C. on November 12, 2011 with a 17-12 victory over Florida and ended on October 12, 2012 with a 23-21 loss against LSU in Baton Rouge.

Clemson’s active win streak?  Two games …

South Carolina’s?  Don’t ask … 

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9 comments

Bible Thumper December 3, 2014 at 1:21 pm

Georgia Tech started the streak. They can end it also.

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OH_IO December 3, 2014 at 1:50 pm

and then THE Ohio State University gets in…God is good!!!

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Toyota Kawski December 4, 2014 at 9:55 am

Feel Free to return home you dam poison nut

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idcydm December 3, 2014 at 2:25 pm

Sounds like a plan!!!

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major major December 3, 2014 at 1:31 pm

That Cleveland Naval Reserve team of 1918 was AWESOME.

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Squishy123 December 3, 2014 at 3:17 pm

Yeah, but that was back when real men played football. “I don’t care if you have a broken leg, get your ass back in there or I’ll send you home”.

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Frank Howard December 3, 2014 at 2:35 pm

Is that you Bud Wilkinson?

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Famous Jameis December 3, 2014 at 4:27 pm

Fuck her right in the pussy!

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TontoBubbaGoldstein December 3, 2014 at 6:40 pm

…September 24, 1949 with a 33-7 loss on the road against Rice.

Don’t laugh, Sakerlina fans.

1949 is the year y’all needed a trick play eke out a win against Cornbread Stuffing and then were humiliated two weeks later at home against Mac-n-Cheese.

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