LSU’s winning streak was snapped by Mississippi State. Now Notre Dame has the longest one in college football.
The LSU Tigers led all of college football with a 16-game winning streak spanning back to 2018. Then on Saturday Mississippi State turned up and spoiled the party.
The Bulldogs pulled off the 44-34 upset of the Tigers on the back of K.J. Costello‘s SEC-record 623 passing yards.
Instead of extending their post-title honeymoon, LSU became the first defending national champion to lose their season opener since Michigan in 1998, according to Reddit CFB.
Who dropped the ’98 Wolverines? Notre Dame.
Who now owns the longest active winning streak in college football? Notre Dame.
The Fighting Irish now boast the nation’s longest winning streak at eight games, per Pete Sampson of The Athletic.
Nobody in college football has a longer winning streak than Notre Dame.
— Pete Sampson (@PeteSampson_) September 26, 2020
Irish have won eight straight.
Notre Dame will have to wait to extend their winning streak further.
After beating Duke in the opener and South Florida in Week 2, Notre Dame was supposed to work on their ninth win in a row this weekend against Wake Forest. However, that game was postponed because of positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing.
The Wake Forest game will be made up on Dec. 12, serving as a regular-season finale.
For now, the Irish will sit and wait for quarantines to be completed before facing Florida State on Oct. 10.
Short of an upset, the streak should expand to nine games before Notre Dame takes on the stiffer competition of Louisville and Pitt. Even so, circle the calendar for Nov. 7. That’s when the Irish will welcome the Clemson Tigers to South Bend. If they can survive that outing, the streak could grow beyond even LSU’s. Maybe.
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