In just his fourth game as head football coach at UW-Whitewater in 2007, Lance Leipold wondered, for a fleeting second, what he had gotten himself into.The Warhawks trailed UW-La Crosse, 28-10, early in the fourth quarter. They had lost two weeks earlier to St. Cloud State, and if they lost this game, they would be 2-2 and Leipold would have lost as many games as his predecessor, the retired Bob Berezowitz, had lost in the previous two seasons combined.
"I remember thinking late in the third quarter, 'Thank God I'm renting right now,' " Leipold said.
The Warhawks scored 25 unanswered points that day to beat La Crosse, 35-28, and didn't lose another game that season.
And Leipold and Whitewater have been practically unbeatable since.
The Warhawks, the two-time defending NCAA Division III national champions, and ranked No. 1 by D3football.com, and currently are sporting a 33-game winning streak - the longest in college football.
While the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers dominate headlines and the University of Wisconsin stirs passions throughout the state, the Warhawks keep piling up victories and titles in the relative obscurity of Division III.
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