Precedent Notes Six Points Clear, and Arsenal Knows What That Means Arsenal leads the Premier League by six points in November. Three seasons ago it led for 248 days and still finished second.
Precedent Notes Notre Dame, No. 1 Miami and a Call to Argue About Notre Dame stopped No. 1 Miami in South Bend on a play Miami will dispute for a long time. It happened there once before, in 1988.
Precedent Notes 77 Points, and Then What? Nashville set the MLS regular-season points record. The last three teams to do that never reached MLS Cup.
Precedent Notes Seven Straight, and Then What? Manchester City is the third team in Premier League history to win its first seven games. The first two won the title, but City has lost the two games since.
