One recent team came close: the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983.

Three other teams have won 31 in a row, college football's seventh-longest winning streak over all; the most recent team was Oklahoma, from 1948 to 1950.

Hillsboro High's most recent team state championship came in 2009 for Football.

A coach on a recent pro all-star team met one of these players for the first time at a practice.

The Lions scored 24 points in the second half and gained 307 yards rushing, achievements unknown to recent teams.

The most recent winning team holds a trophy referred to as "The Barrel."

The Pittsburgh Steelers were the most recent team to make the change, and it hardly changed their fortunes.

He gave examples of recent successful teams winning with key players acquired outside the glamorous early rounds of the college draft.

Manawatu were the most recent team to fall to Canterbury when on the 9 of October they lost 50-26.

The recent teams seem geared to individual stars.