Can Kansas City Chiefs join the three-peat club? They're not alone in the chase

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs begin Part Three of a historic quest Thursday night as they open the 2024 NFL season with a chance at a three-peat.

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But the back-to-back Super Bowl champions aren’t the only program with such an opportunity ahead 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 seeking their own three-peat in the WNBA.

To give some perspective on the difficulty of repeating three titles, nine NFL teams (eight franchises) have repeated as Super Bowl champions, but all of them failed to even return to the championship game the following season, according to FOX Sports research.

With all this in mind, let’s take a look at some teams that have He managed to achieve it.

Below are some of the teams that have won three consecutive titles in a wide variety of sports, both at the professional and collegiate levels, in reverse chronological order.

Right now, the world is Manchester City and the entire Premier League lives in it. Winners of six of the last seven Premier League championships, Manchester City have been a runaway freight train, spearheaded 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 slowing down under coach Patty Gasso. Oklahoma has beaten Texas and Florida State twice each to win its titles.

The one they call Ronaldo helped Real Madrid to their third consecutive title in the mid-2010s, alongside the likes of Karim Benzema and Alvaro Morata (during one season on the run of three consecutive titles). Ronaldo’s final season with Real Madrid came in the final season of the team’s three-peat.

Basketball has been good to UConn fans over the past decade. After losing five games in four years (151-5), the Huskies were the unstoppable force in women’s college basketball, sweeping teams from one end of the court to the other. Breanna Stewart, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Morgan Tuck were all part of what was arguably the golden era of UConn basketball.

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Johnson outperformed everyone in the second half of the 2000s, winning 35 races from 2006 to 2010 and six Cup Series championships in eight years. He finished his career with seven championships, tied with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr. for the most in NASCAR history.

Phil Jackson retired after the 1998 season with the Chicago Bulls, until of course he became the head coach of the Lakers in 1999. Led by the star power of Shaquille O’Neal and an emerging superstar by the name of Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles won three straight titles, while Jackson actually claimed his sixth straight title as a coach, as he won in each of his final three seasons at the helm in Chicago under Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.

In what was the last true Yankee dynasty, the team won four titles in five years, and the three-peat triumphs came in convincing fashion. Sweeping the San Diego Padres in 1998 and the Atlanta Braves in 1999 and then beating the New York Mets in the 2000 Subway Series, players such as Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte cemented their respective places in Yankees history.

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WNBA: Houston Comets (1997-2000)

The first four seasons of the WNBA were under the control of the Houston Comets, who won each of the league’s first four titles. While the Comets dominated the sport, Cynthia Cooper won two WNBA MVP awards. Cooper and Tina Thompson went on to have Hall of Fame careers, but the Comets disbanded as a franchise after the 2008 season.

The pride of Long Island won its first Stanley Cup in what was the Islanders’ eighth season in the sport. A streak that included Hall of Famers Bryan Trottier, Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies and goaltender Billy Smith saw the Islanders sweep the Stanley Cup in 1982 and 1983 and avoid a Game 7 in each of the four seasons. This streak came directly after the Montreal Canadians also won four straight.

College Baseball: USC Trojans (1970-74)

The Trojans’ baseball program was a juggernaut under Rod Dedeaux, winning five consecutive World Series thanks to contributions from George Milke and Russ McQueen, among many others. To date, the fifth consecutive title remains an NCAA baseball record, and two of those are the most consecutive titles by any other team.

Did you think some of the streaks mentioned above were impressive? They don’t compare to John Wooden’s UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s. A period in which players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton and Curtis Rowe, among many others, donned a Bruins uniform, saw UCLA win titles in nine out of ten seasons.

No NFL team has ever achieved three consecutive titles in the Super Bowl era (1966–present), but the Packers accomplished it, as they won the last NFL championship in 1965 and then the first two Super Bowls in 1966 and 1967. Near the end of Vince Lombardi’s reign as head coach, Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, and Willie Davis helped lead Green Bay to three consecutive titles, including a pair of blowout victories in Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II. The Packers also achieved three consecutive titles from 1929 to 1931.

The Golden Gophers lost one game in their three-peat (25-1) under coach Bernie Bierman. Minnesota won two more titles under Bierman in 1940 and 1941. Bierman was ordered to the Marines during World War II and returned as Minnesota’s head coach in 1945.

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