Meyer’s First 15 Seasons: Winning Streaks
3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM | Football
March 10, 2017
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Winning streaks can tend to be really impressive, and Ohio State athletics has produced some of the more notable streaks in recent times. Consider:
- Head Coach Pete Hanson’s No. 1-ranked men’s volleyball team is currently riding a Midwestern Collegiate Volleyball Association record 41-match winning streak — the defending national champions haven’t been beaten in nearly 400 days — and are just six wins away from UCLA’s NCAA record; and
- Tennis coach Ty Tucker’s men’s team went 11 years and 11 months without losing a home tennis match between 2003 and 2015, winning an astonishing 200 consecutive matches in Columbus for the longest home win streak in NCAA Division I sports history.
Football coach Urban Meyer has an impressive streak, or set of streaks, to his credit as well through his first 15 seasons as a head coach: he has coached teams to four winning streaks of at least 20 games. He is one of 41 Division I coaches to lead a football team to at least 20 consecutive wins and one of nine coaches to have two such streaks, but no one has three, much less four, 20-game winning streaks to their credit.
Meyer’s Ohio State teams own the record for longest conference winning streak: 30 consecutive Big Ten wins between 2012-15.
Multiple 20-Game Win Streak Coaches
Urban Meyer
25 — Florida (2010) & Ohio State (2012-13)
23 — Ohio State (2014-15)
22 — Florida (2008-09)
20 — Utah (2003-04) & Florida (2005)
Walter Camp
28 — Yale (1888-89)
27 — Yale (1890-92)
Robert Neyland
22 — Tennessee (1937-39)
20 — Tennessee (1950-51)
Tom Osborne
26 –Nebraska (1994-96)
22 –Nebraska (1982-83)
Joe Paterno
23 — Penn State (1968-69)
20 — Penn State (1993-95)
Barry Switzer
28 — Oklahoma (1973-75)
20 — Oklahoma (1986-87)
Bud Wilkinson
*47 — Oklahoma (1953-57)
31 — Oklahoma (1948-50)
George Woodruff
34 — Pennsylvania (1894-96)
31 — Pennsylvania (1896-98)
Fielding Yost
29 — Michigan (1901-03)
26 — Michigan (1903-05)
*NCAA record streak
Consecutive Wins, Conference Games
1. 30 Ohio State, Big Ten — 2012-15
2. 29 Florida State, ACC — 1992-95
3. 28 Florida State, ACC — 2012-15
4. 27 Alabama, SEC — 1976-80
5. 27 Miami, Fla., Big East — 1999-2003
