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 teams stacking wins

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 are building a case of their own at 4 straight.

Kansas State join the party at 3 straight.

Stuck in the barrel

Western Kentucky cannot find the exit: three consecutive losses and counting. The schedule keeps coming regardless, which is either mercy or cruelty depending on the next opponent.

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

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

By the numbers

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

Worth remembering

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.