College football’s longest regular season winning streak has been broken for the second time this season.
The Liberty Flames fell, 27-24, to Conference USA foe Kennesaw State on Wednesday night, snapping their 17-game win streak.
Liberty (7-1) held the record after the previous holders, Georgia, had its incredible 42-game regular season winning streak broken by SEC rival Alabama in Week 5.
The win by Kennesaw State (1-6) was its first-ever as an FBS team in the program’s first season in Conference USA. It was also the team’s first-ever win over an FBS opponent. Per ESPN, it was the first time in 23 years a team 0-5 or worse has beaten a team 5-0 or better.
The No. 1 Oregon Ducks (7-0) now hold the nation’s longest active regular season winning streak (FBS) with 13 straight victories dating back to 2023.
Liberty’s singular loss likely ends any kind of bid it could’ve made at the expanded College Football Playoff.
If it had remained undefeated and won Conference USA, there would’ve been an outside chance it snagged the Group of Five highest-ranked conference champion’s bid into the 12-team format.
The Flames are not entirely eliminated yet either but they will need an extraordinary amount of outside help going forward.
Only nine undefeated teams now remain in college football this season: No. 1 Oregon (7-0), No. 3 Penn State (6-0), No. 6 Miami (7-0), No. 10 Iowa State (7-0), No. 11 BYU (7-0), No. 13 Indiana (7-0), No. 19 Pittsburgh (6-0), No. 23 Army (7-0) and No. 24 Navy (6-0).