Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs begin the third part of a historic quest on Thursday night, as they open the 2024 NFL season with the chance to three-peat.
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But the back-to-back Super Bowl champions aren’t the only program with such an opportunity in front of them.
The UConn Huskies, led by head coach Dan Hurley — who turned down an offer from the Los Angeles Lakers to stay in Storrs — are the back-to-back men’s college basketball champions. Elsewhere, the Las Vegas Aces are currently pursuing a WNBA three-peat of their own.
For perspective on the difficulty that comes with three-peating, nine NFL teams (eight franchises) have repeated as Super Bowl champions, but all of them failed to even make it back to the championship game the ensuing season, according to FOX Sports research.
With all that in mind, let’s take a look at some teams who have managed to pull it off.
Here are some of the teams that have three-peated across a plethora of sports — both professionally and collegiately — in reverse chronological order.
Right now, it’s Manchester City’s world, and the entire Premier League is just living in it. Winners of six of the last seven Premier League championships, Man City has been a runaway freight train, headlined by the attack of Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland.
College Softball: Oklahoma (2021-24)
The Sooners have lost just 15 games over the past four years and have shown no signs of letting up under coach Patty Gasso. Oklahoma has beaten Texas and Florida State twice apiece to win its titles.
The one they call Ronaldo helped Real Madrid three-peat in the mid-2010s, along with the likes of Karim Benzema and Alvaro Morata (for one season in the three-peat stretch). Ronaldo’s final season with Real Madrid came in the final season of the team’s three-peat.
The game of basketball has treated the UConn faithful well over the past decade. Losing a whopping five games over four years (151-5), the Huskies were the unstoppable force of women’s college basketball, boat-racing teams up and down the floor. Breanna Stewart, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Morgan Tuck were part of what was arguably the golden age of UConn hoops.
Johnson drove laps around everyone in the latter half of the 2000s, winning 35 races from 2006-10 and six Cup Series championships in eight years. He ended…
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