Streak Watch: Lehigh Have Won 5 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 84 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 Lehigh: five consecutive wins. Nobody stays hot forever, but while it lasts, every night has looked like a rerun of the same comfortable movie.

Tarleton State are building a case of their own at 4 straight.

Add Stephen F. Austin to the list too, 4 in a row.

Going the wrong way

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

Towson are on a slide of their own at 4 straight losses.

West Georgia have lost 4 straight themselves, in case anyone at the cold end needed company.

By the numbers

For the record, here is everything currently running at three-plus:

The fine print

The longest run on the board sits at 5 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.