North Dakota State’s 39-game winning streak has come to an end.
NDSU, winners of eight of the last nine FCS national championships, was surprisingly knocked off on the road by Missouri Valley Football Conference foe Southern Illinois. The score wasn’t close either: Southern Illinois 38, North Dakota State 14.
With a win, NDSU would have become just the third Division I program to have a winning streak of 40 games. The record belongs to Oklahoma. OU won 47 straight games from 1953 to 1957. Washington also won 40 consecutive games between 1908 and 1914.
Instead, the streak was halted at 39 — a record for the Bison.