[Sampson] Notre Dame now has the longest active winning streak in college football.

[u/Deviljho12]

https://x.com/PeteSampson_/status/2111544952887120108

[u/it-is-just-a-game]

How long is it?

[u/CumAssault → u/it-is-just-a-game]

16 games with an inexplicable gap of a bowl game they didn’t win

[u/StrongStyleShiny → u/CumAssault]

Didn’t Baylor also decline a bowl game? I’m legitimately asking.

[u/CumAssault → u/StrongStyleShiny]

Yeah but we were asked after missing the bowls entirely just to emergency fill in. We were also ass

[u/CommodoreIrish → u/CumAssault]

We too would have been ass.

[u/StrongStyleShiny → u/CumAssault]

Gotcha I just remember a handful of teams declining but didn’t remember why. Thanks!

[u/monstimal → u/StrongStyleShiny]

Every team declined their meaningless bowl game and sent their freshman instead.

Kind of amazing how reddit demands all these programs spend a bunch of money and get players hurt so espn can have content. Fuck them

[u/silverhk → u/it-is-just-a-game]

About 20 fathoms

[u/sixtoebandit → u/it-is-just-a-game]

Hey hey hey it’s not about length

[u/BlindPelican → u/it-is-just-a-game]

16 games, all by double digits

[u/FrostTroll69 → u/BlindPelican]

Except for the bowl game

[u/SingleNewspapering → u/FrostTroll69]

You win 100% of the games you don’t play or something like that.

[u/Wide_right_yes → u/BlindPelican]

What about your bowl game last year?

[u/crline3924]

Surely they’ve won a bowl game in that span

[u/jbomb6 → u/crline3924]

Kids in 5 years: "A what game?"

[u/EmuMan10 → u/jbomb6]

Oh ow that hurts

[u/GardenDesign23 → u/crline3924]

We didn’t lose our bowl game! - ND, probably

[u/snorlaxatives_69]

The bowl game comments are hilarious

[u/goldflame33 → u/snorlaxatives_69]

I guess all of the “Texas Tech tries to destroy college football” “LSU tries to destroy college football” “ESPN destroys college football” headlines distracted people from the true villains for a while. Good to know everyone’s still outraged about the pop tart bowl

[u/JSOPro]

Genius move to forgo the bowl game for this streak

[u/puzzical → u/JSOPro]

Will find out tonight whether it likely would have changed anything.

[u/Wide_right_yes]

The pop tarts bowl should count as a forfeit

[u/mindbodyproblem → u/Wide_right_yes]

Maybe, if pop tarts still had a decent amount of icing.

[u/wycked89 → u/mindbodyproblem]

This is a take I fully endorse, or more icing in a pop strudel packet

[u/Fickle-Werewolf8298 → u/wycked89]

Gotta let that shit melt on the strudel then spread it!

[u/wycked89 → u/Fickle-Werewolf8298]

Clearly you work for big Pillsbury

[u/jcnewton1 → u/mindbodyproblem]

Might just be me but the Great Value Pop tarts have more icing and taste better lately.

[u/OnwardSoldierx → u/Wide_right_yes]

Nope

[u/Anxious_McChicken → u/Wide_right_yes]

When you read it out loud it sounds more ridiculous lol

[u/ElToroDeBoro → u/Wide_right_yes]

You mean forfeit the invite, right?

[u/Pro-1st-Amendment → u/Wide_right_yes]

You're a dumbass.

[u/Ok-Soil-5133 → u/Wide_right_yes]

You can't forfeit a game you're never scheduled for. They simply declined the invitation.

And let's be honest non playoff bowls don't mean much of anything anymore (and they'll mean even less at 24)

[u/Dahlabillz15 → u/Ok-Soil-5133]

I forgot yall forfeited that game, embarrassing

[u/FrostTroll69 → u/Dahlabillz15]

Yep, forfeit should be a loss

[u/av7ry → u/Ok-Soil-5133]

Declining an invitation because you’re scared of BYU and Pop Tarts is even more cowardly than forfeiting

[u/saltytradewinds → u/av7ry]

So you're saying ND was scared of BYU and then scheduled a regular season game with them?

[u/BlindPelican → u/av7ry]

So scared of BYU we scheduled them the very next year. Solid reasoning there, brother

[u/Ok-Soil-5133 → u/BlindPelican]

That doesn't fit the narrative.

[u/saltytradewinds → u/BlindPelican]

That's the A&M education.

[u/av7ry → u/BlindPelican]

Can’t go back in time and schedule a game with the 2025 BYU Cougars

[u/KruegerFishBabeblade → u/Ok-Soil-5133]

Wait I didn't realize you can keep a win streak by declining to play anybody who might beat you. Can A&M and CSU decline the rest of their seasons?

[u/OscarDelta333 → u/KruegerFishBabeblade]

I think the point is that regular season games are scheduled whereas bowl games are by invitation. So there is a difference.

[u/KruegerFishBabeblade → u/OscarDelta333]

Teams (like Indiana!) that cancel difficult ooc games to protect their record are equally deserving of criticism

[u/puzzical → u/KruegerFishBabeblade]

We scheduled BYU THIS offseason

[u/Ok-Soil-5133 → u/KruegerFishBabeblade]

It only applies for the postsesson because its an invitation basis, not a game already on the schedule.

[u/ShackletonsVael → u/KruegerFishBabeblade]

You are saying regular season games are comparable to bowl games? Do you have your opponent and specific bowl game scheduled in advance for the next few years?

[u/KruegerFishBabeblade → u/ShackletonsVael]

Football games are comparable to other football games yeah

[u/ShackletonsVael → u/KruegerFishBabeblade]

I'll admit I don't watch much of Colorado state so I had to Google their schedule lol, not sure about their bowl games but with the new 24 team playoff maybe instead of being blown out by North Texas you guys could be comparable to TCU with Georgia in 2023? It's low hanging fruit to mention A&M with the whole 8-4 thing so.

[u/KruegerFishBabeblade → u/ShackletonsVael]

The domer mind can't imagine rooting for a bad program because you have actual personal ties to the school

[u/ShackletonsVael → u/KruegerFishBabeblade]

Can't imagine rooting for a bad program? Lmfao I wasn't even alive the last time they won a national championship, and have only seen them always be embarrassed on a national stage every time they have made it to the national championship. Decades of choking sure are the signs of a healthy program.

[u/KruegerFishBabeblade → u/ShackletonsVael]

Call me when you watch your team lose by 34 points to UNLV in an empty stadium on a 25 degree day in person

[u/ShackletonsVael → u/KruegerFishBabeblade]

Well then you're probably very happy that A&M was able to shutout the powerhouse that is Citadel right?

[u/TheBourbonTurtle → u/Ok-Soil-5133]

Ducking a game is a forfeit in everyone's eyes.

[u/puzzical → u/TheBourbonTurtle]

We didn't duck BYU we are playing them tonight after scheduling this offseason.

[u/fuchsia_fascia]

A lot of top 1%ers pissing themselves in this comment section lol

[u/The_Unclean_Chadford]

This has y’all PRESSED lmao

[u/NDinFL → u/The_Unclean_Chadford]

Any title on r/cfb with our name in the title queues up the tired old cliche talking points.

Ya get used to how predictable it is

[u/urbanboi → u/NDinFL]

I wonder how many bots are on reddit. And how many members of its userbase are so bereft of original thoughts that they are effectively bots themselves

[u/NDinFL → u/urbanboi]

Having wasted entirely too much time on this website/app I’d say it’s probably a higher number than most people realize

[u/Express_Dinner7918]

I hope this tweet ages poorly, but it probably won’t.

[u/AdventureDude24 → u/Express_Dinner7918]

You all are a really good team! Have confidence tonight. Should be a great game. Really looking forward to watching Bear

[u/Muffinnnnnnn]

I mean Ferris State is on a 36-game winning streak right now. Their last loss was with Trinidad Chambliss at QB.

[u/Alpine_Exchange_36]

Kinda rooting for BYU now which feels strange

[u/BIG_DICK_WHITT → u/Alpine_Exchange_36]

Woah woah woah lets not go that far

[u/thecravenone → u/BIG_DICK_WHITT]

I just hope both teams don't have fun.

[u/Leading-Button-7303 → u/BIG_DICK_WHITT]

Yeah... we need something dramatic to happen so neither team can win this. The pope and the prophet get together and settle on a tie?

[u/FrostTroll69 → u/Alpine_Exchange_36]

Same

[u/FrostTroll69]

I heard they hate poptarts though

[u/billbill17]

You win games when you don’t play anyone lmao

[u/Interesting-Agency-1]

Yeah, I'm okay with this

[u/AdventureDude24 → u/Interesting-Agency-1]

Literally by a foot. Was pulling for IU there!

[u/pardonmyignerance → u/AdventureDude24]

Less than a foot

[u/Irishchop91]

that's just bad karma saying that

[u/DBE113301]

Who cares? I won't gloat or celebrate anything until the Irish win a national championship. If that ever happens. Will I complain about other programs and point out hypocrisy when I see it? Of course. But as a fan, I'll never strut. This is just inviting karmic intervention. Stay humble, shrug your shoulders when opposing fans say things that may or may not be true, and hope for the best. I'll say something about the greatness of this Irish team--if it is truly great--if they win it all this year. If not, kudos to whoever does.

[u/saltytradewinds]

All the pearl clutching because ND didn't play in an exhibition game last year.

[u/cosmic_sheriff → u/saltytradewinds]

Just call it a bye week.

[u/Sea_Spend_8008]

Kiss of Death.

[u/OwnWalrus1752 → u/Sea_Spend_8008]

Tbf it took a long time for it to become the Kiss of Death for Indiana

[u/equivalentMartingale]

This stat sucks and is embarrassing for obvious reasons but seeing how mad it makes everyone makes me want to go all in on it

Print the t shirts !

[u/smmate]

Funny how people said conferences and the regular season don’t matter anymore because of the new format and that college football is dead, but will continue to shit on Notre Dame’s schedule as if it matters. Congrats everyone we are all making the playoffs next year 

[u/urbanboi → u/smmate]

Envy is a hell of a drug.

[u/TheBourbonTurtle → u/smmate]

Now we get to watch y'all lose in the playoffs again instead of watching you throw a tantrum about your bowl game.

[u/smmate → u/TheBourbonTurtle]

Like the tantrums everyone threw about the new format that killed bowl games?

Wait I forget do those matter anymore or do they just matter for ND?

[u/pardonmyignerance → u/smmate]

They matter when it fits my narrative.

[u/Sam_Phyreflii → u/TheBourbonTurtle]

Enjoy!

[u/DonnaDDrake]

For now

[u/SPCsooprlolz → u/DonnaDDrake]

Inshallah, brother

[u/Thatguywhoreadz]

Their bowl & conference championship games last season were great!

[u/CouldntBeMeTho]

Buckeye flairs talking big shit suddenly lol. Front runners as usual

[u/spazzxxcc12 → u/CouldntBeMeTho]

if you’re on the side of ND you’re generally on the wrong side

[u/Jalapenoplanter → u/spazzxxcc12]

https://stories.nd.edu/stories/a-clash-over-catholicism/

Oh?

[u/spazzxxcc12 → u/Jalapenoplanter]

hey i said generally i didn’t say always

[u/IveBenHereBefore]

You're welcome

[u/westcoastcanes]

This is an erroneous stat, they forfeit the pop tart bowl, because they are quitting cowards.

[u/OnwardSoldierx → u/westcoastcanes]

No one cares about pointless bowl games anymore. They are literally dead starting next year.

[u/loneshoter → u/OnwardSoldierx]

Why do Notre Dame fans keep acting like bowl games are worthless? They bring more revenue in for the team. Allow more practices and reps for the next generation of players. And allow fans to watch the team in a fun setting

[u/urbanboi → u/loneshoter]

The media clearly decided decades ago that bowls are worthless. They don't care about any of the things you mentioned. Which is why they just expanded the playoff again to bury them.

[u/westcoastcanes → u/OnwardSoldierx]

It’s easy to say that when your team are the quitting cowards that ran from byu

[u/OnwardSoldierx → u/westcoastcanes]

Hey buddy, the sport has changed, everyone is playing for championships and playoff appearances now. A non NY6 bowl berth doesnt do anything except risk injuries for your players.

[u/westcoastcanes → u/OnwardSoldierx]

Well, notre dame wasn’t playing for a championship, but we were.

[u/Flioxan → u/westcoastcanes]

Did they though?

[u/Business_Permit_3686 → u/westcoastcanes]

Poptart revenge this evening

[u/Aaprobst88 → u/westcoastcanes]

Declining an invitation is not the same as forfeit, I know definitions are hard and all.

[u/DCAbloob → u/Aaprobst88]

So are postseason games, not that last year’s Notre Dame squad would have known anything about that.

[u/njk12]

I don't care about semantics, they ducked their bowl game, that's an L

[u/Jalapenoplanter → u/njk12]

That’s literally semantics though. And wrong semantics at that

[u/puzzical → u/njk12]

Yeah Notre Dame didn't want to play BYU in a bowl game last season but they scheduled, checks notes ... BYU this season

[u/Leading-Button-7303]

With a fat ass asterisk by the bitch out of a bowl game. Who's next in line that can actually claim it?

[u/Vocen → u/Leading-Button-7303]

Don't know if you were baiting for this given your flair, but should be Utah at 11 I think.

[u/Leading-Button-7303 → u/Vocen]

lol I was not baiting, I just googled it and you're correct. Now I'm even more on board for calling their streak invalid. And... hoping for BYU to win? That feels wrong

[u/Routine-Height-7103]

Lol they really have gone through the gauntlet. They had to play Stanford TWICE during that time frame !

[u/A_Rolling_Baneling]

A multiseason winning streak without winning a bowl game?

[u/TheCryptPartDeux]

I mean, it is easy to keep a winning streak going when you refuse to play bowl games

[u/PiningForAnApple]

No one cares with their fake schedules

[u/OnwardSoldierx → u/PiningForAnApple]

You literally make our schedule ass. Field a team that can win 6 games please.

[u/GiraffesAndGin → u/PiningForAnApple]

I love how people insult their own programs when trying to talk down ND's schedule.

[u/PiningForAnApple → u/GiraffesAndGin]

Msu is a garbage fire program and y'all did not look good against us

[u/durtymrclean → u/PiningForAnApple]

Yeah, playing cupcakes like MSU should count as a loss.

[u/PiningForAnApple → u/durtymrclean]

It should ND played us worse than Wisconsin and Nebraska

[u/durtymrclean → u/PiningForAnApple]

How did ND play Wisconsin?

[u/PiningForAnApple → u/durtymrclean]

^ smartest Notre dame fan 

[u/ltyboy → u/PiningForAnApple]

No you're right - everyone knows transitive victories matter more than on-the-field ones, even if it's against the same team.

[u/dbasinge]

They ain’t played no one. Did I do that right SEC?

[u/hitokirizac → u/dbasinge]

Well we tried to play you, but you guys weren't about that ig

[u/lowercaset → u/dbasinge]

Forgot the PAWLLLLLLLLLLLL

[u/dbasinge → u/lowercaset]

Thanks for the pointer.

[u/Chuck_Roast1993]

A great consolation prize for the second best program in the state!

[u/DCAbloob]

That's only because James Madison actually showed up for two postseason games. If it hadn't have, it would have had a 17 game winning streak now, one ahead of Notre Dame.

[u/MidlandsBraves]

Didn’t they forfeit a bowl game?

[u/Guywithshirtandface → u/MidlandsBraves]

No

[u/Ornery_Gene7682]

When your schedule looks like how I schedule in the old GameCube ncaa football games you would have a long winning streak

[u/InitiativeGold7953]

Not really surprising considering they rank 60th in SOS and cherry pick conferences

[u/Alert-Fisherman-2483 → u/InitiativeGold7953]

USC sucks lol

[u/InitiativeGold7953 → u/Alert-Fisherman-2483]

Who are you 💀

[u/Quick-Difference3267 → u/InitiativeGold7953]

And you guys ran away like bitches.

[u/TJFLASH1 → u/Quick-Difference3267]

Like you did with the Pop Tart Bowl

[u/smmate → u/TJFLASH1]

Oh the big scary Pop Tart Bowl, what ever will ND do without winning the Pop Tart Bowl.

I thought Bowl games were dead?

[u/TJFLASH1 → u/smmate]

Apparently get a win streak because everyone else that would be close was playing more games and not running away

[u/smmate → u/TJFLASH1]

Wow Notre Dame has a win streak. Unreal stuff

[u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo → u/smmate]

Breaking news, winning all of your games makes you a bad team.

[u/InitiativeGold7953 → u/smmate]

We all know ND didn’t want to get exposed for the frauds they were. No one is buying it. At least this year you can pretend BYU is a quality win instead of USC

[u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo → u/InitiativeGold7953]

USC hasn’t been a quality win in a long long time.

[u/Particular_Ring_6321 → u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo]

You’re talking out of both sides lol

[u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo → u/Particular_Ring_6321]

No I’m not. I’m emphatically saying it’s a dogshit program, and beating them is useless.

[u/Particular_Ring_6321 → u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo]

USC hasn’t won shit in 20 years. ND hasn’t won shit in 40 years. Pipe down

[u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo → u/Particular_Ring_6321]

Been to a couple nattys lately. Gonna win one this year. We’re good.

[u/Quick-Difference3267 → u/TJFLASH1]

A meaningless bowl vs ending a historical rivalry isn’t even in the same stratosphere

[u/TJFLASH1 → u/Quick-Difference3267]

Didn’t say they were, doesn’t change the fact ND are also bitches for running away from their bowl game last year lol

[u/InitiativeGold7953 → u/Quick-Difference3267]

USC plays in a real conference. I’m sure they’d still play if all they had to do was play ACC teams all year. This isn’t a flex

[u/easternpapist → u/InitiativeGold7953]

You were a member of a real conference all this time and still got embarrassed year in year out by a team without a conference

[u/easternpapist → u/InitiativeGold7953]

Our SOS will get better now that we don't get an automatic win against you guys every year

[u/InitiativeGold7953 → u/easternpapist]

Right. Cause every year it’s “USC sucks and isn’t getting into the playoffs” until Notre Dame beats a shitty USC team and says “see! We beat USC! We should be in”

FOH

[u/easternpapist → u/InitiativeGold7953]

Your comment makes no sense

“see! We beat USC! We should be in"

No that's not how it goes. Creaming the trojans is its own reward

[u/urbanboi → u/InitiativeGold7953]

Usc has not been good enough for this scenario you fabricated to be true for some time. Wouldn't have been this year either.

[u/Particular_Ring_6321 → u/easternpapist]

ND last won a championship in 1988 and USC last won in 2004. Both teams are mediocre these days. Calm down

[u/TheCryptPartDeux → u/InitiativeGold7953]

And refuse to play bowl games

[u/InitiativeGold7953 → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

They knew they were getting exposed. Shit’s embarrassing

[u/OnMyNerves23 → u/InitiativeGold7953]

Yeah and they skip bowl games because they are below them.

[u/Apprehensive-Alps-90]

So then who is it after they lose to BYU tonight

[u/chief_sitass → u/Apprehensive-Alps-90]

Tm	Strk
Notre Dame	16
Utah	11
James Madison	7
Brigham Young	6
Georgia	6
Boise State	5
Liberty	5
Miami (FL)	5
Ohio State	5
Texas Tech	5
UCLA	5
Arizona	4
Baylor	4
Jacksonville State	4
Kentucky	4
Oklahoma State	4
Oregon State	4
Wisconsin	4

[u/jayjude]

God I cannot stand Pete Sampsons smarmy ass

Despite not being a ND alum he is everything people accuse ND fans of being

[u/Significant-Jello411]

Well yeah they chicken shitted out of their bowl game

[u/AnonThrowAway072023]

*

[u/JosephFinn]

In what conference?

[u/Jalapenoplanter → u/JosephFinn]

All of them

[u/JosephFinn → u/Jalapenoplanter]

So…none. You might as well say the Richmond Flying Squirrels won the Big Ten this years.

[u/Jalapenoplanter → u/JosephFinn]

Maybe one day Ohio State can survive on its own without needing the help of rutgers or illinois

[u/JosephFinn → u/Jalapenoplanter]

ND is hilarious. They have win streaks and yet have never won a national championship.

[u/Jalapenoplanter → u/JosephFinn]

What?

[u/puzzical → u/JosephFinn]

Played teams from the ACC, the American, the Big12, the Big10, the MWC, and the SEC in this streak.

[u/Fartenstein65]

Watch they lose today.😂

[u/Destr0yer56]

Well that's expected when you play against local community colleges for most of your schedule

[u/solomonrooney]

How many of those wins were against playoff teams?

[u/Fliptheshoe]

And no one cares lol

[u/LarryGoldwater]

I've seen enough

Who is going to blow out Notre Dame in the championship?

[u/Ribeyes1]

Yeah pop tart bowl is a forfeit so this is incorrect post 

[u/Knightmere1]

Yeah because you play a bunch of cupcakes

[u/TypicallyDone12]

Not bad for a G6+ schedule.

[u/ltyboy → u/TypicallyDone12]

Fellas, is 2 B1G teams and 3 ACC teams so far a G6 schedule?

[u/TypicallyDone12 → u/ltyboy]

It includes last year as well, where their SoS was outside the top 40. This year it's ranked 97th.

https://www.warrennolan.com/fbs/2026/sos-elo

[u/puzzical → u/TypicallyDone12]

Hmm if our schedule is so bad then why do we have the 6th best Strength of Record according to ESPNs FPI source

[u/LitterBoxServant]

Not that hard when all you do is play the bottom half of the ACC and skip bowl games

[u/puzzical → u/LitterBoxServant]

Hey we also play the kidsle tier of the ACC and Big10

[u/capone_happyfappy]

big whoop

[u/guttata]

*

[u/Unique-Efficiency720]

Declining a bowl game counts as a loss by forfeit to me.

[u/BuckeyeJay]

How many national titles?

[u/nazzykhan → u/BuckeyeJay]

2 more than you