College Football Streak Watch, Towson's Run Hits 5

Streaks are the league's pulse. You can read the whole mood of College Football off who keeps stacking wins and who cannot find the exit, and this morning's board, counted straight from the results table, has some runs worth talking about.

As of this morning, 90 different teams are riding runs of three or more in one direction or the other, a busy board by any standard.

The win-column crowd

Lehigh just keep stacking, five 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.

Montana State carry a 5-game winning run of their own.

Idaho State join the party at 4 straight.

The skids

On the other side of the ledger, Towson have dropped five straight. Losing streaks carry their own gravity, the pressing starts, the bounces stop cooperating, and close games keep finding the same ending.

VMI have dropped 5 in a row themselves.

And Long Island University are quietly carrying a 5-game slide of their own.

At a glance

The full board, longest runs first:

Worth remembering

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.

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.