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Akron Football Ended The Nation’s Longest Losing Streak At 21 Games By Beating Bowling Green In A Blizzard

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Akron football defeated Bowling Green 31-3 on Saturday, snapping the nation’s longest losing streak. Entering the weekend, the Zips had lost 21 consecutive games, dating back to Oct. 27, 2018. A new streak began today and second-year head coach Tom Arth’s team is 1-0. Well, they’re actually 1-4, but you get the idea.

Arth took over prior to the 2019 season and went winless in his first year. Nobody likes to lose, and getting up for a game every week only to get punched in the throat must be brutal. To put the losing streak into context, it was 770 days, 110 weeks, and 25 months from the Zips’ took down the Central Michigan Chippewas 17-10 more than two years ago.

Here is what the streak looked like:

  • Northern Illinois 36 — Akron 26
  • Eastern Michigan 27 — Akron 7
  • Bowling Green 21 — Akron 6
  • Ohio 49 — Akron 28
  • South Carolina 28 — Akron 3
  • Illinois 42 — Akron 3
  • UAB 31 — Akron 20
  • Central Michigan 45 — Akron 24
  • Troy 35 — Akron 7
  • UMass 37 — Akron 29
  • Kent State 26 — Akron 3
  • Buffalo 21 — Akron 0
  • Northern Illinois 49 — Akron 0
  • Bowling Green 35 — Akron 6
  • Eastern Michigan 42 — Akron 14
  • Miami OH 20 — Akron 17
  • Ohio 52 — Akron 3
  • Western Michigan 58 — Akron 13
  • Ohio 24 — Akron 10
  • Kent State 69 — Akron 35
  • Miami OH 38 — Akron 7

Total it all up and the Zips lost to their last 21 opponents by a combined score of 785-261. Ouch.

It was a confident win in the Rubber Capital of the World as Akron took a lead in the second quarter and never looked back. Bowling Green truly terrible and may be destined for a losing streak of their own, but a win is a win is a win. And to make it that much more fun, it went down in a pretty heavy snowfall for much of the second half.

With the streak broken in Ohio, the title of college football’s biggest loser is awarded to Kansas and New Mexico. Both teams claim 14 straight losses. Northwestern claims the longest losing streak in FBS history at 34 games from 1979-1982