The Longest Winning Streaks in Sports History

This season the Dallas Mavericks at one point went on an impressive winning streak of 17 games. The streak was the longest seen in a while and was a big deal but it was actually still only half way to the record. Winning streaks are one of the most exciting parts of any sport so why don't we take a look at the longest winning streaks in history.

The Florida Gators have been the most dominant team in college basketball the last two years and one of the best college basketball teams in a while. Over the past two years the Florida Gators have had 3 winning streaks of 17 games, but even if you combined all three of those winning streaks it will still come very short of the record. In the 70's the UCLA Bruins, led by Coach John Wooden, were dominating the world of college basketball like no other team has. The Bruins won nine national championships in ten seasons and at one point during that run they won 88 consecutive games. The streak started on January 30th, 1971 and the streak didn't end until January19th, 1974 when they lost 70 - 71 to Notre Dame.

The longest college football winning streak also lasted over the span of a couple of years (granted they play a lot less games). In the 50's the Oklahoma Sooners were the team to beat in college football. During the 50's Oklahoma was named the National Championship in some form five times. Their longest winning streak stretched over 47 games from October 10th, 1953 until November 16, 1957. Oddly enough, like UCLA, the Sooners' winning streak was also broken by the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. No wonder everybody hates those guys.