Most consecutive NCAA football wins over one opponent


The following is a list of the all-time leading NCAA Division I FBS college football single-opponent winning streaks. Streaks are ranked by the number of consecutive wins posted by one team against a regular opponent. All streaks active and historical streaks of at least 20 games are included.
This list does not include rivalries involving current Division I Football Championship Subdivision schools. It excludes the all-time NCAA record for most consecutive wins by one rival over another: Yale beat Wesleyan University 46 times in a row between 1875 and 1913. The two teams have not played each other since that 1913 game, so Yale has been undefeated against Wesleyan for 135 seasons. The FCS record for most consecutive wins by one team over another in an uninterrupted series is 32 victories in a row by Grambling over Prairie View between 1977 and 2009, but this includes the 1990 season when Prairie View failed to field a team. That streak began when Grambling was in the old Division I and Prairie View was in Division II.
SchoolOpponentConsecutive winsYear startedLast winUninterrupted series?Notes/References
Notre DameNavy4319642006YesNavy won in 2007
NebraskaKansas3619692004YesKU won in 2005
PrincetonRutgers3318691937No
OklahomaKansas State3219371968Yes
Penn StateTemple3119522014No Penn State had a 39-game unbeaten streak against Temple dating back to 1941; the teams played to a tie in 1950. Temple broke the streak in 2015.
FloridaKentucky3119872017YesLongest in-conference streak in Southeastern Conference history. Kentucky snapped the streak in 2018.
NebraskaKansas State2919691997Yes
ClemsonVirginia2919551989No
TexasRice2819661993Yes
PrincetonPenn2818761891No
SyracuseHobart2619061931Yes
USCOregon State2619681999No
TennesseeKentucky2619852010YesKentucky won in 2011. Rivalry formerly known as the Battle for the Barrel
Penn StateWest Virginia2519591983Yes
Ohio StateIndiana24†19912019NoThe 2010 game was vacated due to self-imposed sanctions by Ohio State
MichiganIndiana24†19882019No
TexasTCU2419681991Yes
NebraskaOklahoma State2419741999No
Texas A&MTCU24†19732001No Texas A&M won 23 consecutive games against TCU from 1973 to 1995 while they were both members of the old Southwest Conference. Texas A&M beat TCU again in the 2001 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl, and the teams have not played since then.
NebraskaMissouri2419792002Yes
Penn StateMaryland2419621988No The streak began following Maryland's first win in the series in 1961, and finally ended with the only tie in 1989. Penn State would end up with a 29-game unbeaten streak over Maryland before the Terps defeated the Nittany Lions in 2014.
OregonIdaho23†19512014No-
OklahomaIowa State2319371959Yes
TennesseeVanderbilt2219832005Yes
ArkansasTCU2219591980Yes
AlabamaVanderbilt22†19852017No
AlabamaMississippi State2219581979Yes-
IowaNorthwestern2219741994YesNorthwestern's 1995 team also ended a 19-game losing streak to Michigan and a 14-game losing streak to Notre Dame.
LSULouisiana - Lafayette22†19022009No
FloridaVanderbilt2219892012No The series was uninterrupted since 1992. Vanderbilt won in 2013
HarvardBrown2118931913No
Ohio StateNorthwestern2119722003No Northwestern won in 2004.
Ohio StateWisconsin2119601980Yes
PurdueIowa2019611980Yes
OklahomaBaylor2019012011No Baylor ended the streak with a 45–38 victory in 2011.

† Active Streaks in bold