Sentences with phrase «bowl game wins»

I think we should take away all the catholic church's bowl game wins for the past 14 yrs and fire the pope as well as anyone else that covered up abuse.

Not exact matches

They needed to win three of their final four games to get bowl eligible this year, including a big upset win over Navy.

The logic: Marshall has won their past five bowl games, the longest active streak in college football.

The logic: New Mexico State hasn't had a winning season since 2002, and hadn't made a bowl game in over 50 years.

In order to fill the entire slate of college football bowl games this season, 15 teams without winning records will participate in the bowl season, but it could be worse.

The logic: It's been a streaky season for the Blue Devils this year, winning their first four games, then losing six in a row before winning their final two to become bowl eligible in the final week of the season.

Boise, Idaho (December 29, 2015)- The Utah State University Aggies (Mountain West Conference) were the predicted victors of the Famous Idaho ® Potato Bowl, but the Akron Zips (Mid-American Conference) played strong and hard to win their first bowl game ever on the blue turf of Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho.

While neither team is really in the hunt for the national championship, one could both go a long way toward earning a bid to a BCS bowl game with a win.

As far as the Bears are concerned there are several teams that were said to not have enough talent until they turned a corner and all of the sudden were winning games and putting guys in the pro bowl.

Purdue has won just a single bowl game against a Power Five program since 1998, while Arizona has won three of its last four but didn't play in a bowl game a season ago.

That the Hoosiers rallied from this stretch to dominate in their final two games to finish bowl - eligible was impressive, even if it only led to more heartbreak — in the Pinstripe Bowl, Duke tied the game with under a minute left, then won in overtime when an Indiana field goal attempt went just wide (maybe).

and i do nt care, i do nt want a bowl game with 6 lousy wins (the targetshit bowl, or the i humped your mother bowl)... its all bullshit, have some self respect / dignity... we deserve nothing... after this and osu...

But a chance to win 11 games on the season, along with winning a major New Year's Six bowl, is still a very impressive year for Jim Harbaugh's second season in Ann Arbor.

Come season's end, if the Bears have avoided notable injuries and have developed some chemistry on the defensive side coalescing around the strength of their cornerbacks, they might be able to reach another decent bowl game with a win here.

They've won 9 games in back - to - back years and have won three consecutive bowl games.

If they are able to win at Servite - Anaheim on Oct. 5, they likely won't be challenged again until the regional bowl game.

Wisconsin would go on to win 11 games and finish No. 9 in the AP poll after a New Year's Six bowl victory.

That feels so wrong, given that Wisconsin won 11 games two years ago in the same season Michigan won five and missed a bowl game, given that Wisconsin won at least nine games in six of its last seven seasons while Michigan has done it just twice, given that only Ohio State has won more games than Wisconsin among Big Ten teams this century.

If Penn State can win 10 games, including a bowl, Franklin will be armed with marked improvement to sell.

We were trying to win more than we lost and go to a bowl game.

This season, they finished third in the extremely competitive West Catholic Athletic League, then came up a two - point conversion short in a 31 - 30 loss in the Central Coast Section Open Division II championship game to Serra - San Mateo, which also won a state bowl title in Sacramento.

With three games left to be played (@Indiana, @Penn State and Ohio State), the Wolverines not only have a shot at making a great bowl game, but also winning the Big Ten Conference.

Play Bama close, maybe win 1 out of 5 against them while Saban is still around, and get to Atlanta 1 out of 5 years and threaten to in 2 of the other of those 5 years while going to bowl games every year, and I think you got yourself a secure job.

The Tigers are the lucky winners, and they're somehow in position to win a big bowl game with four losses already on their résumé.

Duke thus came from behind to win 7 - 6, in the closest of the major bowl games.

Keep in mind the Pac - 12 also won just one bowl game in football, it had an international incident with UCLA in China, it has Arizona continuing to deal with a bevy of negative headlines pertaining to both football and basketball, and now it just went 0 - 3 in the Big Dance.

Stanford's win pushes the Pac - 12 to 4 - 0 in 2014 - 2015 bowl games, with four bowl games remaining for the conference.

He made 86 tackles — 13 for losses — and had 3 1/2 sacks as the Tigers finished 8 - 4 and won their first bowl game since 1979.

Despite taking the two middle quarters off, Appalachian State won its first ever bowl game in its first ever bowl appearance, beating Ohio, 31 - 29, in the Camellia Bowl, with a last - second field goal from Zach Matics, who missed his first two field goal attempts on the day.

The fact that the Huskers can still sneak into a bowl game with two more wins is probably the only reason that firing Callahan in midseason was not an option.

And if they don't lose before the Orange Bowl, this year will be the eighth time in the past 16 seasons that the winner of the Oklahoma - Nebraska game has either won some version of the national championship or at least contended for it in a bowl.

Despite a 2 - 10 season in 2013, he took Air Force to bowl games in six straight years from 2007 to 2012, winning two of those and beating the likes of Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, TCU, and a ranked Houston team along the way.

Georgia State had averaged 6.7 yards per play during the four - game winning streak that earned bowl eligibility, but SJSU held the Panthers to 231 yards (4.7 yards per play) and a paltry 11 first downs.

In his 10 years as head coach of BYU entering this season, the Cougars made 10 bowl games, with nine winning seasons and a 6 - 6 mark in his first year on the job.

BOWLING — JIM ST. JOHN of St. Louis averaged a high 233 and led the field of 16 finalists all the way to win the $ 48,000 World's Invitational Match Game Tournament in Chicago.

IMHO we'll impress elite recruits, and the college fb world, when we get >.500 and win a bowl game.

Three teams — UTSA, Buffalo and Western Michigan — reached the six - win threshold but were not selected for a bowl game.

And every time we get a strong (major - conference) No. 3 team (2003, 2004, 2008, 2011), we get talk of a split national title once they win their bowl game; it doesn't matter whether we think they are as good as the 1 - versus - 2 winner, it's just that «The system's broken» and «This whole thing is meaningless without a playoff.»

After winning their first six games of the season and becoming bowl - eligible in the process, the Illinois Fighting Illini have fallen on hard times, dropping the last two games they've played.

Rutgers had made a bowl game in each of Flood's first three years with the school (winning one), and compiled a 27 - 24 record with him at the helm (12 - 19 in conference).

«Iowa State has reached nine wins twice (1906, 2000) since the team's conception in 1892 and has a record of 3 - 9 all - time in bowl games -LRB-!!).

or was that his bad boy bowl after scoring a double and basically winning the game for us?

But a healthy Ron Dayne (947 yards) has changed Wisconsin's outlook on the postseason: After they win this game, the Badgers qualify for a bowl.

After winning eight combined games in his first two years, Mason won eight in 1999, pulling a program - defining upset of No. 2 Penn State and reaching 12th in the country before a bowl loss.

The Bells play Mission Viejo (15 - 0), which also came from behind to win their regional bowl game, taking down Helix - La Mesa.

Biggest 2017 game: To bowl again, EMU's going to have to win a tricky road game or two.

Consider that they've won three bowl games in a row.

Five of these teams went to bowl games, one won its conference (SDSU), and another won its division (Wisconsin).

The BCS was so close to having a perfect week filled with exciting bowl games and plenty of underdogs winning when...

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