Sentences with phrase «against bowl teams»

We also know a few big - picture basics that the committee cares about — wins against teams it ranks, wins against bowl teams, and overall command of games — and can think about those things as we go along.

- Going 5 - 2 against bowl teams is easily the worst mark of any Playoff team ever.

* Going 5 - 2 against bowl teams is easily the worst mark of any Playoff team ever.

One was against the SEC's second - worst defense (Kentucky's was better than Arkansas» in 2012) and one was against probably the nation's worst defense; neither was against a bowl team, though Louisiana Tech didn't go bowling because of an incredibly petty reason.

Not exact matches

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

Not only was SMU forbidden to compete against NCAA teams for a year, it also lost 1988 thanks to being barred from playing home games and dealt with a player exodus, a financially disastrous bowl and TV ban through 1989, as well as heavy recruiting and staffing penalties.

Compared to Bama, the Badgers won a division, have more wins, were roughly as dominant all year, have just one fewer win over bowl teams, and have the same record against top - 10 teams.

Will a close road win against a potential bowl team be enough for the 11 - 0 Herd to crack the rankings?

Each of these was close and against a Power 5 bowl team.

Remember a few of the things the committee values: record vs. committee - ranked teams, record against bowl - eligible teams, and whatever vague sense of qualitative analysis the committee decides to articulate at any point.

Alabama's lost eight games since 2010, and three of them were bowl games against teams with somewhat similar talent.

We're trying to be a bowl team, and we come up a weird play short against Minnesota.

Biggest 2017 game: The Week 2 visit from Nebraska (Sept. 9) will tell us a lot about the Ducks» potential in 2017, and the year - end Civil War against Oregon State (Nov. 23) could determine bowl eligibility for both teams.

The committee's plan for determining which teams play in the best games has not yet been completely disclosed, but if it leads to a common - sense determination of teams based on merit, rather than an application of cryptic and unforgiving rules made solely to prevent unscrupulous bowl executives from turning every big bowl game into Notre Dame against someone vaguely local, it's a massive improvement in the process.

Temple was the conference champ, top 25 team and their bowl game was on a random Tuesday at 3:00 against a bottom tier Power 5 team.

The addition of 20 freshman redshirts will help Auburn get through a nasty schedule that features an Aug. 27 opener against Miami in the Meadowlands and then seven other bowl teams.

After tight losses to three MAC bowl teams (EMU, Ohio, Toledo) and brief steps backwards against Miami and NIU, Bowling Green finished the year beating Akron by 10, Kent State by 35, and Buffalo by eight.

With high - profile coaching changes at USC, Washington and Boise State this season, we looked back in our database of sports betting information to examine how teams historically perform ATS (against the spread) with new coaches in bowl games.

However, the Mountaineers face a tall task going up against a Whittingham - coached team during bowl season.

If not for the NCAA's rule against first - year FBS teams making the postseason, the Eagles were a handful of plays away from a challenging for a spot in the New Year's Six bowl rotation, which went to Boise State.

Keep in mind the things the committee does that a poll might not do: specifically value games against other ranked teams, value games against bowl - eligible teams, and reshuffle the entire board every week, rather than just sliding teams up and down.

The four bowls not hosting one of the semifinal games would host other marquee bowl games pitting highly ranked teams against one another.

Grind out wins against iffy teams, make the postseason, pull off a sneak attack in your bowl, and raise a trophy.

Wake was a one - unit team — two, if you include special teams — and against lesser foes (and a strong Temple in the bowl game) they were able to define games as low - scoring slogs and then out - execute in that space.

A profitable contrarian strategy for bowl games is betting teams that were bad against the spread in the regular season.

We have also found that bowl teams receiving less than 35 % of spread bets have gone 40 - 21 ATS (65.6 %) when they face off against a ranked opponent.

CU has gone 18 - 69 against power teams and attended one minor bowl.

This trend is magnified during bowl season with unranked teams holding a 39 - 25 ATS record (+11.91 units, 18.6 % ROI) against ranked teams.

In the three Open bowl victories «'' against presumably SoCal's top team regardless of enrollment «'' the Spartans have allowed a total of 22 points.

Tim Tebow was not 100 percent against Georgia and Michigan in the bowl game, but still, this was too high for such a young team.

Auburn played the toughest schedule in the nation in 1983 against eight eventual bowl teams.

Tebow's 7.76 YPP in 2007 before a bowl game brownout against Michigan (7.41 after) is also impressive, and it's worth noting that of those three recent SEC quarterback Heisman winners, Tebow did by far the most carrying a team on his back, accounting for 4,181 of Florida's 5,943 total yards (70.4 percent) compared to Manziel's 4,600 of 6,628 (69.4 percent) and Newton's 4,327 of 6,989 (61.9 percent).

Betting bowl teams from the previous season when the line moves against them in Week 1 has been incredibly profitable.

The Wildcats started conference play with six - straight losses before closing with three wins against weaker competition, and losing their bowl game handily to a better Arkansas team.

Teams that made a bowl game last year are 68 -68-1 ATS against teams that diTeams that made a bowl game last year are 68 -68-1 ATS against teams that diteams that didn't.

R's boss Ian Holloway handed 17 - year - old Bowler his first - team debut against Norwich on the final day of the season.

Though LSU is 2 - 5 ATS over its last seven against teams with winning records and 1 - 4 ATS over its last five games as a favorite, the Tigers have fared well at the sportsbook in their recent bowl games.

We are looking for home teams off a bowl season where the line has moved against them.

This contrarian betting strategy takes bowl teams from the previous season in Week 1 when the line has moved against them.

Steven Finn may well have bowled himself into the England team for the first Test against South Africa after an impressive display on the first day against South Africa A in Pietermaritzburg.

Talking about the Tekken Bowl, it was first introduced in the first Tekken Tag Tournament, in it two teams battle against each other in a bowling match.

An unruly bowls player is banned from his stuffy local club - until the members realise they need his considerable talent to win a landmark victory against a formidable Australian team.

She is coaching her Atlanta school's National Academic League quiz bowl team, competing against a «white» school (in Atlanta, even a «white» school does not have many whites).

Take the Vardaman High quiz bowl team, which Weddle joined last year in order to travel the state and measure herself against other students.

A quiz bowl was held at the conference, a team competition for three students against other veterinary schools that included theriogenology related questions relating to any species.