On Saturday, Penn State wrestling pitched a pair of dominant shutouts against North Dakota State and No. 19 Stanford at the Journeyman Collegiate Duals for its 76th and 77th consecutive dual meet victories, breaking the all-time NCAA Division I record, set by Oklahoma State in 1951.

The dominant winning streak has been built up over a span of 2,148 days, dating back to February 2, 2020. With this record added onto the endless accolades that Cael Sanderson and company have earned amidst the wrestling team’s dynasty, let’s take a look at other win streak records across NCAA Division I sports.

Football: Oklahoma, 47 games (1953-57)

On September 26, 1953, No. 1 Notre Dame defeated No. 6 Oklahoma in Norman, 28-21. For the next four-plus years, Oklahoma would not be defeated.

The Sooners tied Pittsburgh one week later on the road before beginning their 47-game winning streak by knocking off No. 15 Texas in the Cotton Bowl. They finished the 1953 season on a nine-game winning streak, capping it off with a shutout victory over No. 1 Maryland in the Orange Bowl. Oddly, despite beating the top-ranked team in a de facto national championship, the Terrapins are listed as consensus national champions.

Oklahoma went 10-0 with four shutout victories in 1954 to win the Big Seven, but was unable to compete for a national championship due to conference rules prohibiting consecutive bowl appearances. They made up for it in 1955, going 11-0 with five shutouts and a 20-6 victory over No. 3 Maryland in the Orange Bowl, earning a consensus national title.

After another 10-0 season with six shutouts in 1956 to earn a second-consecutive title, the Sooners began the 1957 season 7-0 before being shockingly shut out by an unranked Notre Dame on November 16, ending the historic winning streak.

For reference, the longest such streak in Penn State history was 23 games, from 1968 to 1970, when Joe Paterno led the team to consecutive perfect seasons and Orange Bowl victories in 1968 and 1969. The Nittany Lions went unbeaten for 31 straight games from October 1967 to September 1970.

Men’s Basketball: UCLA, 88 games (1971-74)

The gold standard of college basketball, for a long time, was UCLA. From 1964 to 1975, the Bruins won 10 national championships, led by legendary head coach John Wooden. They also captured a remarkable 88-game win streak in the midst of it.

After a loss to No. 9 Notre Dame in January 1971, UCLA ended the season on a 15-game winning streak, defeating Villanova in the national championship. They went 30-0 in each of the next two seasons, winning their sixth and seventh consecutive titles with wins over Florida State and Memphis State, led by Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton.

Despite having future first-round picks Walton and Keith Wilkes, the Bruins weren’t as dominant in 1973-74. After starting 13-0 with two top-five victories, UCLA’s historic streak went out the same way that Oklahoma’s did, with a loss against unranked Notre Dame.

Even worse? UCLA led 70-59 with 3:30 to go, but surrendered a 12-0 run to end the game. Dwight Clay hit a go-ahead jumper with 29 seconds left, and the Fighting Irish got one last stop, as Walton missed a hook shot in the final seconds. UCLA would lose another three games that season, failing to win the national championship for the first time since 1966.

50 Years Ago Today: Notre Dame beats UCLA, snaps John Wooden’s remarkable 88-game winning streak.

Dick Enberg on the call…pic.twitter.com/K5wZe81KzA

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) January 19, 2024

The longest winning streak by Penn State hoops was 17 games, spanning two seasons from 1924-25. The longest single-season streak was 12 games in 1952.

Women’s Basketball: UConn, 111 games (2014-17)

The longest streak that college basketball has ever seen, period, came courtesy of Geno Auriemma’s UConn Huskies. Auriemma had already overseen 70 and 90-game win streaks in his now-40-year tenure, but this streak stood head and shoulders above the rest.

After an overtime loss to No. 6 Stanford on November 17, 2014, the Huskies finished the 2014-15 season with 37 consecutive victories, steamrolling through the AAC and NCAA Tournaments, winning every single game by double digits.

Led by future WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier, UConn went 38-0 the following season and won its fourth consecutive national championship, winning by at least 21 in 15 straight games to end the year. The following season started the same way, as the Huskies were 36-0 heading into the Final Four after dismantling Oregon in the Elite Eight.

On March 31, 2017, Mississippi State took UConn down to the wire, accomplishing something that almost no team could do over the past three years. Improbably, they managed to have the ball with a chance to win the game in the final seconds, and they didn’t let it go to waste. Morgan William nailed a mid-range buzzer-beating jumper to end the streak, eliminating the unstoppable Huskies.

The longest such streak in Penn State history was 18 games in 1991. The Lady Lions started 11-0, lost to Rutgers on January 12, and then ran the table with 18 consecutive victories through the end of the Atlantic 10 Tournament. Unfortunately, the streak ended when they lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, being upset by James Madison.

Baseball: Texas/Florida Atlantic, 33 games (1977/1999)

Unlike the other sports, the sheer length of a college baseball season makes it so that no team has ever completely run the table. The longest winning streaks lasted under two months, shared between two teams.

Texas started the 1977 season 33-0, handily beating team after team and entering Southwest Conference play undefeated. The streak ended in a 14-inning marathon against Rice, losing 4-3. The Longhorns finished 53-9, but missed the NCAA Tournament after being shut out by Baylor in the SWC Championship.

Florida Atlantic began its streak on February 19 with a win over Bethune-Cookman and didn’t lose again until April 17, dropping the first game of a doubleheader against Jacksonville to fall to 39-2 on the season. The Owls won the Atlantic Sun title and won two games in the NCAA Tournament, ultimately losing in the Coral Gables Regional Final against a Miami (FL) team that defeated them prior to the 33-game win streak.

The longest streak in Penn State history came from 1920-21, when the Nittany Lions won 30 in a row across two seasons. The longest in-season streak was 21 games in 1957.

Softball: Oklahoma, 71 games (2023-24)

Oklahoma softball won four consecutive national titles from 2021-24, going a blistering 235-15 over that span. In the midst of it, for 13 months, they were unbeatable.

After losing to an unranked Baylor on February 19, 2023, the Sooners finished the season on a 53-game win streak, going a flawless 18-0 in Big 12 play and winning all 12 postseason games, only being seriously tested by Clemson in the Norman Super Regional, winning in extra innings.

After dominating the start of the following season, the streak came to an end on March 3, 2024, when unranked Louisiana stunned the dynastic Sooners with a 7-5 win in eight innings at the Oklahoma Tournament.

THE RAGIN' CAJUNS DO IT

Louisiana upsets No. 1 Oklahoma ending their 71-game win streak. The final score: 7-5!#NCAASoftball x ESPN+ / @RaginCajunsSB pic.twitter.com/N5iMxzLjPU

— NCAA Softball (@NCAASoftball) March 3, 2024

Penn State softball’s longest winning streak was 16 games in 2006.

Men’s Hockey: Cornell, 30 games (1969-70)

Very few college hockey teams have ever gone undefeated in a season, but the most recent such team, Cornell in 1970, went 29-0-0.

Under head coach Ned Harkness, the Big Red obliterated its competition throughout the season, outscoring teams 179-56 across the 29 games. Very few teams put together competitive efforts, as only Brown took them to overtime and only Toronto and Wisconsin held them to less than three goals.

They ended their regular season by scoring 25 goals in a span of two games against Dartmouth and Princeton before winning the ECAC Tournament and rolling through Wisconsin and Clarkson to win the national championship.

The streak didn’t last long after, however. After opening the 1970-71 season with a 7-3 win over Western Ontario, the Big Red were blown out by Rensselaer (who also won 30 in a row across two seasons in the 1980s) on December 1.

Penn State men’s hockey’s longest streak in their brief existence was 11 games in the first half of the 2016-17 season. A strong 14-1-1 start that season saw the Nittany Lions be ranked No. 1 in the USCHO poll for the first time ever.

Women’s Hockey: Minnesota, 62 games (2012-13)

The Golden Gophers are a perennial powerhouse in the world of women’s hockey, but for over a year in the early 2010s, they were unstoppable.

After an overtime loss to No. 5 North Dakota in February 2012, Minnesota ended the season with eight consecutive victories to win the national championship and parlayed it into a flawless 41-0-0 campaign, outscoring opponents 216-36.

Only one regular-season opponent (Bemidji State on February 16, 2013) took them to overtime, but Minnesota was taken to double and triple overtime during the NCAA Tournament, ultimately overcoming every team’s best shot to finish the season unbeaten with a 6-3 win over Boston University.

The streak got up to 62 with 13 consecutive victories to start 2013-14, but No. 4 North Dakota, the team that they had last lost to, outlasted Minnesota, 3-2, on November 17 after potting all three goals in the first period. The Golden Gophers would go 25-0-1 in their next 26 afterwards, but lost to Clarkson in the NCAA Tournament Final.

Penn State women’s hockey recently achieved its longest winning streak, opening the 2025-26 season with 16 consecutive victories until losing to No. 7 Northeastern on Black Friday.

Women’s Volleyball: Penn State, 109 matches (2007-10)

The wrestling team isn’t the only Penn State dynasty to have a historic winning streak, folks.

Legendary head coach Russ Rose won seven national championships leading the women’s volleyball team, but his magnum opus was the unprecedented dominance they displayed from 2007-10.

After dropping a neutral-site contest to Stanford on September 15, 2007, Penn State didn’t lose another set for nine matches and finished the season with 26 consecutive victories, getting revenge on Stanford with a five-set victory to win the national championship.

In 2008, they had perhaps the most dominant season in college sports history, going 38-0 and losing just two sets all season with 37 sweeps. The only blemish? A five-set victory over Nebraska in the national semifinals before sweeping Stanford for another title.

Another 38-0 season in 2009 didn’t see the same level of historical dominance, but it resulted in a third consecutive title with a five-set victory over Texas in the final. They opened 2010 with six consecutive sweeps and seven victories, but the 109-match streak came to an end with a sweep at the hands of Stanford in Gainesville, Florida, on September 11, 2010.

Fortunately for the Nittany Lions, they rebounded to sweep their way to a fourth consecutive title, dominating California in the title game.

Other notable winning streaks:

Men’s tennis: Miami (FL), 137 matches (1957-64)

Men’s gymnastics: Oklahoma, 121 meets (2015-19)

Women’s soccer: North Carolina, 92 games (1990-94)

Women’s lacrosse: Maryland, 50 games (1995-97)

Field hockey: North Carolina, 47 games (2018-20)

Men’s lacrosse: Cornell, 46 games (1976-78)

Men’s soccer: Navy, 25 games (1964-65)