Streak Watch in College Football: North Dakota State at 4 and Counting

Every result in College Football feeds a streak somewhere, and a few of them have now grown big enough to deserve names. Everything below comes straight off the results; nothing fancier than counting.

There are 42 clubs carrying streaks of three games or longer at the moment, which tells you something about how streaky this stretch of the calendar has been.

The win-column crowd

The longest active run belongs to North Dakota State: four consecutive wins. Nobody stays hot forever, but while it lasts, every night has looked like a rerun of the same comfortable movie.

USC carry a 4-game winning run of their own.

Add Kansas State to the list too, 3 in a row.

Going the wrong way

The skid to watch belongs to Western Kentucky, losers of three in a row. Runs like this always end eventually; the only question is how much damage gets done before they do.

It is not much prettier for Rutgers, losers of 3 straight.

Bowling Green round out the skid list at 3 in a row.

The board

The full board, longest runs first:

One more thing

A 4-game run is long enough that it stops being a footnote and starts being the lead, expect it to come up in every broadcast until it ends.

Streaks end, that is the one thing every single one of them does. They tell you where a team has been, loudly, and nothing at all about where the next game is going.