The A&T Streak in Context
The Aggies have lost 22 straight games. That's the fifth-longest run of futility in NCAA Division I-AA history.
Rank Team Streak Years
1 Prairie View A&M 80 1989-98
2 Columbia 44 1983-88
3 St. Francis (Pa.) 30 1999-2002
4 Canisius * 24 1999-2001
5 N.C. A&T 22 2005-
* Canisius has since dropped football
Here's how things stand among active streaks in all Divisions of NCAA ball (629 teams in all):
Becker College of Leicester, Mass., earned the first win in the program's three-year history over the weekend by defeating Gallaudet 30-6. Other downtrodden teams lost.
St. Anselm College, a Division II school in Manchester, N.H., has dropped 24 in a row. A&T is tied with D-II Oklahoma Panhandle and D-III Lewis & Clark College at 22. Hiram College has 21 consecutive defeats.
The good news for Oklahoma Panhandle is that the Aggies -- yeah, them, too -- play Bacone this week. That's the only team they've come close to beating in their streak.