10/27/2026
Helped shape who I am🧡
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Between 1998 and 2001 a Collin County town of about 1,800 people won 68 straight high school football games, which at the time was the longest winning streak in the country. 🏈
Celina was a cotton and small grain town north of McKinney with a two lane highway running through the middle of it and a school small enough that the same boys played both sides of the ball and then ran track in the spring. There was no reservoir of talent to draw on. What there was instead was a program run like a system, where the eighth graders already knew the offense they would be running as seniors, and where everybody in town understood that Friday night was the main event of the week.
The results are hard to argue with. State championships in 1995, then 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. Five titles in seven seasons, and in the middle of that, 68 consecutive wins. 🏆
Think about what a streak that long actually requires. Four seasons without one bad night. No wet field that turns into a coin flip, no key injury at the wrong time, no letdown game against a team with nothing to lose. Big schools absorb that sort of thing. A 2A school has eleven starters and not much behind them.
The strangest part is what happened next. Celina sits in the path of the Dallas area's growth, and the little town of 1,800 has become one of the fastest growing municipalities in America, with subdivisions standing on what used to be cotton rows. The streak belongs to a town that is already gone.
Sixty eight straight, out of a place you could drive through in a minute.
