USL? Alabama? Well… unless they’ve won six straight league championships, three straight national championships, compiled 45 wins in a row and finished the last three seasons without losing… then no.

Currently, the most dominant team in college football may well be the NCAA Division III national champion (for the third year in a row) Wisconsin-Whitewater. The Warhawks defeated rival Mount Union, 13-10, last night in Salem, Virginia. It was the seventh straight national championship meeting between the two schools and, yes, the Warhawks have won the last three.

Wisconsin-Whitewater is led by head coach Lance Leipold, a former Warhawk player who in five years at the school is a staggering 72-3. Yes, 72 wins and only three losses. The Warhawks have won the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship for the last four seasons under Leipold (and have won six in a row). They have lost just one conference game during Leipold’s tenure. Amazingly, the Warhawks have finished the last three seasons 15-0.

Leipold was a quarterback at UW-W from 1983 to 1986 and still ranks in the top 10 of the school in various passing categories. In 2003, he was inducted into the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame. For all that Leipold and the Warhawks have done, their opponent’s stats in the past seven national title games are equally impressive.

Alongside the Warhawks, the Purple Raiders of Mount Union have been equally dominant under Larry Kehres, the doyen of NCAA Division III head coaches. Kehres, in his 26th season as head coach, has an overall record of 314-23-3, has won the Ohio Athletic Conference championship 22 times, is undefeated in 19 seasons and has won a record 10 national championships. the NCAA. In the past 11 seasons, the Kehres-led Raiders have lost just seven games. Oh, and four of those losses… were in the national championship game.

To put what these two schools have done into perspective, think about this. Neither LSU nor Alabama has the most dominant record in NCAA Division I FBS football over the past five years. That record would belong to Boise State, which is no slouch, going 50-3 the last four years. Head coach Chris Peterson is the closest thing to Leipold there is in Division I. Peterson is a remarkable 73-6 (.924 winning percentage) in his six seasons at the helm. But the Broncos haven’t won a national championship and, like they did a year ago, lost a game late in the season that cost them the conference title.

It is absolutely incredible what Wisconsin-Whitewater and Mount Union have accomplished and we look forward to seeing them continue. The Warhawks will lose All-American RB Levell Coppage and QB Matt Blanchard, but they will have a senior class that has never lost a game. I’m sure they’d like to keep that streak alive, and if the story continues, they may face Mount Union for the eighth straight time next year.