Sentences with phrase «auburn team»

Greyson Lambert threw for more than 200 yards in only three games this season, and UGA's best win came over an Auburn team that nearly lost to Jacksonville State before finishing the season at 6 - 6.

They never pulled away from a pretty poor Auburn team on the road.

Alabama does still have to win two road games versus opponents who have at least occasionally been salty this year (Mississippi State, Auburn), and an Auburn team not much worse than this one almost took out «Bama's national title winner in 2009.

Now all they have to do is beat a terrible Auburn team, and a good Georgia team and they will seal their bid in the National Championship game despite losing to Texas A&M.

In football, 2017 UCF went unbeaten and beat an Auburn team that had defeated both of the teams that played for the national title.

It was a disappointing finish for an Auburn team that at one point won six straight games in 2016.

Not exact matches

The Auburn University basketball team works out in Titin, and many professional teams do too.

The logic: With Auburn, Alabama, and Georgia all garnering national attention out of the SEC, LSU has somehow flown under the radar as one of the strongest teams in the country.

After seeing those types of positive results with the Stanford football team, Belch founded his startup in January 2015 and sold the concept to college football programs at Clemson, Auburn, Arkansas, Dartmouth, and Vanderbilt.

Eighty - six percent of them pull for one of the two major football powers there, Alabama or Auburn, and 4 percent for other teams... To understand what an absolute minority nonfans are in Alabama, consider this: they are outnumbered there by atheists.»

Even if Auburn or a team like Missouri wins big over Alabama and Ohio State has close calls against arch rival Michigan and two weeks from now's Big Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the Buckeyes.

Alabama and Auburn won't be the only highly ranked teams to face serious competition moving forward, both this week and the next.

But Auburn's previous game was a narrow loss to one of the best championship teams in recent memory, while Georgia's was a loss to Nebraska in the Outback Bowl.

The margin between Ohio State and the next closest team, No. 4 Auburn, is.096.

Auburn football was rewarded on Saturday, as Burger led his team to a 31 - 3 victory over Texas, passing for 269 yards — the highest game total of any Auburn quarterback since Pat Sullivan in 1971.

It was off to the races and Whitfield found a lane and blew away the Auburn Tigers kick team.

Auburn and Penn State are similar, each with lots of comfortable wins and two close losses on the road to ranked teams.

We're out here talking about two - loss Auburn and Ohio State teams and a non-champ Alabama making it in, and a one - loss Miami is supposedly already out?

Former # 1 Alabama (currently # 9) will be a tough test for the nation's current # 2 ranked team: Auburn.

With the majority of bettors taking the # 1 team and giving just a few points, the line is generally available at Auburn -3.

And after matching Nebraska's dominance blow for blow in 1971 — opening the season with a win over USC, beating a 10 - win Ole Miss team by 34, beating a 10 - win Tennessee team by 17, beating nine - win Auburn by 24 — Bear Bryant's resurgent Crimson Tide, back on the national scene after averaging just seven wins per year from 1967 - 70, got really, really roughed up by Johnny Rodgers and the Huskers in the Orange Bowl.

Auburn, the only team to play both, sent seven.

Clemson's win over Auburn is still holding up well, and Clemson doesn't have OU's bunch of one - score wins against ehh teams.

* The first two - loss CFP team (or second, if Auburn's in) has two top - 10 wins, sure, but two - loss Auburn had that many before conference title weekend.

While Auburn and Florida State finished tied among the top college football teams ATS last year, their roads to the 2014 BCS Championship Game were vastly different.

UCF beat SEC West champion Auburn in the Peach Bowl, meaning the undefeated Knights beat a team that went 2 - 1 against the National Championship's participants — all without the Knights themselves getting even a remote sniff of the Playoff.

Here's how players from Bama, UCF, and Auburn — the closest thing here to an arbiter on this matter, since the Tigers played both teams — answered similar questions about the Knights» claim:

They almost won in Athens, they easily handled a TCU team that was a lot closer to full strength than it is now, and they blitzed Auburn early and Mississippi State late.

Georgia and Auburn were both solid teams with many questions heading into the season where there was no reason to believe we shouldn't be able to hang around and compete with them.

In 1992, a favored Georgia team headed to the Plains to play Auburn in the final days of Dye's tenure.

- The first two - loss CFP team (or second, if Auburn's in) has two top - 10 wins, sure, but two - loss Auburn had that many before conference title weekend.

Rounding out the top five seeds were the two most dangerous teams from the SEC (sorry, Auburn) in No. 3 seed Tennessee and No. 5 seed Kentucky.

Afterward, confetti showered the team as they donned SEC championship T - shirts on the court after reaching the second-most wins for Auburn behind that 1998 - 99 team.

Joel Honigford, a three - star OL out of Sugarcreek, Ohio, shared that Auburn, Michigan State, Michigan and Oregon are his final four teams.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) Auburn was struggling to put away a mediocre Mississippi team in the second half when Bryce Brown made a crucial 3 - pointer to give the Tigers a little separation.

But more revealing was this: As the Auburn players walked off the field, they genuinely believed they had found their 2013 version of Newton — who like Marshall had left an SEC school (Florida), gone to junior college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a junior.

So while Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and Texas A&M have played like nearly elite teams (as have more predictable squads Alabama, Auburn, and LSU), we might soon find that one or more of them doesn't have staying power.

So far this season, ULM has beaten one SEC team (then No. 8 Arkansas) by three points in overtime, lost to another by three points in OT (Auburn) and traded leads all night with a Big 12 team only to fall by five (Baylor).

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) Auburn coach Bruce Pearl saw his team taking what Mississippi's defenders were giving, and that wasn't good eAUBURN, Ala. (AP) Auburn coach Bruce Pearl saw his team taking what Mississippi's defenders were giving, and that wasn't good eAuburn coach Bruce Pearl saw his team taking what Mississippi's defenders were giving, and that wasn't good enough.

West Virginia has played well against two of the four best teams in the country (OU and Alabama), No. 25 TCU has passed the tests it's been given, and both No. 21 Oklahoma State and No. 23 Kansas State created opportunities to beat Florida State and Auburn, respectively.

The teams represent the SEC favorite in Alabama, and its Nos. 2, 3, and 4 in Auburn, Georgia, and LSU, respectively.

Now that the 2017 list of teams meeting the BCR standard has been released, let's consult some oddsmakers to get their take on the odds that one of the 10 teams (Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, or USC) wins the national title.

For one thing, the turnovers were the key; without them, Auburn would have probably lost at home to a team that went just 3 - 9 last year.

Maybe their coaches were able to scheme around deficiencies early in the year, but those deficiencies became apparent once opposing coaches got a lot of film on the teams in the West and came up with schematic counters (Mississippi State had given up five - plus rushing yards per carry to the unconventional Texas A&M, Auburn, and Ole Miss offenses before facing Georgia Tech's).

But there are four teams on whom I am higher by more than two spots: NC State, Mississippi State, Oklahoma State, and Auburn.

You may remember Jacksonville State as the FCS team that nearly beat Auburn.

Fans of both Florida State and Auburn enthusiastically welcomed home their respective teams after the BCS title game.

Sunny Golloway coached the Oklahoma Sooners baseball team for nine years before taking the head position at Auburn just a few...

Maybe it could've happened, because Auburn and Kick Six and Hail Mary and Team of Destiny and #blessed.

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