Uw Football Jersey, LSU? Alabama? Well...unless they have won six straight league championships, three straight national championships, compiled 45 straight wins, and have finished the last three seasons without a loss...then no.
Currently, the most dominant team in college football may very well be NCAA Division III national champion (for the third straight year) Wisconsin-Whitewater. The Warhawks defeated rival Mount Union, 13-10, last night in Salem, Va. It was the seventh straight meeting in the national championship between the two schools, and, yes, the Warhawks have won the last three.
Wisconsin-Whitewater is led by head coach Lance Leipold, a former Warhawk player, who in five years at the school is a jaw-dropping 72-3! Yes, 72 wins and only three losses. The Warhawks have won the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship for the past four seasons under Leipold (and have won six straight). They have lost just one conference game during Leipold\'s tenure. Amazingly, the Warhawks have finished the past three seasons 15-0.
Leipold was a quarterback at UW-W from 1983-86 and is still ranked among the top 10 at the school in several passing categories. In 2003, he was inducted into the school\'s Athletics Hall of Fame. For all that Leipold and the Warhawks have done, equally impressive are the statistics of their opponent in the past seven national title games.
Next to the Warhawks, the Purple Raiders of Mount Union have been equally dominant under Larry Kehres, the dean of NCAA Division III head coaches. Kehres, in his 26th season as head coach, has an overall record of 314-23-3, has won the Ohio Athletic Conference championship 22 times, has 19 unbeaten seasons, and has won an NCAA record Uw Football Jersey 10 national championships. In the past 11 seasons, the Kehres-led Raiders have lost only seven games. Oh, and four of those losses...were in the national championship game.
To put what these two schools have done in some perspective, think about this. Neither Uw Football Jersey LSU nor Alabama has the most dominant record in NCAA Division I FBS football over the past five years. That record would belong to Boise State, who being no slouch itself, has gone 50-3 over the past four years. Head coach Chris Peterson is the closest thing to Leipold there is in Division I. Peterson is a remarkable 73-6 (.924 winning percentage) in his six seasons at the helm. But the Broncos have not won a national championship and, as they did a year ago, lost a game late in the season that cost them their conference title.
It is absolutely incredible what Wisconsin-Whitewater and Mount Union have accomplished and look for them to continue. The Warhawks will lose All-American RB Levell Coppage and QB Matt Blanchard, but will have a senior class that has never lost a game. I\'m sure they would like to keep that streak alive, and if history continues, they may be taking on Mount Uw Football Jersey Union for an eighth consecutive time next year.
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