Streak Watch: North Dakota State Have Won 4 Straight (College Football)

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 teams stacking wins

North Dakota State just keep stacking, four wins in a row, the best active streak going. At some point a run stops being a coincidence and starts being a statement, and they are somewhere past that point.

Behind them, USC have quietly won 4 in a row.

Kansas State join the party at 3 straight.

The skids

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.

Rutgers have dropped 3 in a row themselves.

Bowling Green have lost 3 straight themselves, in case anyone at the cold end needed company.

The board

Every active streak of three or more, in one place:

The fine print

The longest run on the board sits at 4 games, and runs that size have a way of bending a whole week's storylines around them, every broadcast, every pregame note, every nervous manager quote.

None of these runs are forever. Enjoy them as stories, count them honestly, and remember the results table starts blank again tomorrow.