Sentences with phrase «bowl games»

These teams have been great to buy low on in bowl games historically, going 33 -21-1 ATS since 2005.

After several weeks of entertaining bowl games (including two fairly boring College Football Playoff semifinal games), we have a rematch for the national title.

The game is attracting far more betting tickets than the other two bowl games on Tuesday (Duke / Northern Illinois and Utah / WVU), so UCLA is setting up for a nice contrarian play against the public.

While this sample size is incredibly small and not something we'd recommend solely using as a betting system, favorites clearly outperform underdogs when playing bowl games with new coaches.

In those games, Alabama has gone 19 - 12 ATS including a 3 - 0 ATS record in bowl games.

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.

In fact, these major bowl games usually take more action than most World Series games.

While this is our hypothesis, we encourage you to leave your thoughts regarding new coaches in bowl games in the comments section below.

Casual bettors tend to overwhelmingly take the favorite, but they become increasingly willing to back the underdog in bowl games.

Saco has since led the CIF in adding regional playoff games to qualify the section championship teams for the state bowl games, and also added an Open Division — for championship games between the state's top NorCal and SoCal programs regardless of division and enrollment — in both football and basketball.

The Rebels beat Alabama twice, went to two New Year's Six bowl games, and signed an elite recruiting class.

For the record, there are 40 bowl games to be played, including the National Championship.

Dye, who won six bowl games as Auburn's head coach, apparently did not express concern about the male members of the selection committee who did not play collegiate football, such as former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese or former sportswriter Steve Wieberg.

Talking with media ahead of the December 30th Orange Bowl against FSU, several Michigan players talked about the new trend of star players (Leonard Fournette / Christian McCaffrey) sitting out their bowl games to prepare for the NFL Draft.

Northern Illinois is 0 — 4 in bowl games under Rod Carey; Duke got its first postseason win in half a century two years ago at the Pinstripe Bowl.

Two bowl games will host the semifinals in any given year, while the other four games will play out on December 31 and January 1.

For a long time, he opposed FBS playoffs, still holding last year that the model would hurt bowl games and exclude small conferences.

And there are gonna be dozens of other bowl games again.

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

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

That was the first year of regional bowl games and Clayton Valley got an invite to play none other than Oakdale at a neutral site in Stockton.

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

Similar to our 80/20 NFL Betting Against the Public System, our contrarian approach is applied to college football and shows you how to boost your bankroll betting bowl games.

Looking at all bowl games over the previous three seasons, 16 games saw the favored team receive 70 % or more spread bets.

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

For the full roster, though, the goal of reaching the state bowl games was solidified in the preseason with wristbands that read «Carson to Carson.»

Due to increased public attention, bowl games provide opportunities for contrarian bettors to find extra value when betting against the public.

Hey, Barkley is bad, and Grant Fuhr is fantastic, but you mean to tell me that you could muster only eight pages to cover 18 college bowl games, 14 of which were decided by six points or fewer?

The AD, when addressing the firing with the media, might say something like «We want to be in major bowl games on a consistent basis.»

But with this victory, following back - to - back seasons where they qualified for bowl games, things might be finally getting turned around for good.

«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-!!).

«Virginia has had a rough recent history, making only three bowl games over the past 11 years.

oof... But probably because I think we played LSU in like... the previous 4/5 bowl games leading up to that.

Cincinnati football has made bowl games in nine of the last 10 seasons, and the men's basketball team has qualified for the NCAA Tournament in each of the last five years.

There will be no bowl games for the Cardinals for years.

Head coach's bowl record: Jim McElwain is 1 - 0 as a head coach in bowl games (2013 with Colorado State).

Head coach's bowl record: Jim Harbaugh is 1 - 1 in bowl games, both at Stanford.

The fact that most coaches make their moves before bowl games shows the lack of importance that the coaching fraternity puts on bowls (outside of championship games), which matches the feelings of fans who don't seem interested in attending bowls anymore.

Calhoun returned to Air Force to coach his alma mater after spending a year as offensive coordinator of the Houston Texans, in part because «I wanted to see, playing in a major conference (the Mountain West), if there were some years you could go to bowl games.»

I am not discussing trends (and the data based on guys sitting out bowl games is new enough to not qualify quite yet as a trend) but reality of the current make - up of NFL drafts and NFL Rosters.

The rest of the SEC typically starts waaaay higher than they end up every season, not to mention the times that the rest of the conference gets beaten in bowl games.

With the two Florida schools leading the East, it's likely they will end up in the two Florida bowl games.

That was all that was left until college football's one - of - a-kind postseason is set, with unique bowl games around the nation leading up to the fourth edition of the College Football Playoff.

That's usually not an issue for bowl games, since most take place during winter break, but since the championship game is so late, it could become a problem in the future.

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.

Cosentino was a four - star recruit out of high school and has a strong arm — here he is throwing a football over a four - story building — but he doesn't quite seem up to the task of playing minutes in one of the biggest bowl games of the college football season.

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.

Blessed with normal agility and a certain amount of determination, it was possible on New Year's Day to spend six hours in front of a television set and emerge, dial fingers blistered and retinas raw, with a vast sense of accomplishment: attendance at four bowl games.

Can Wednesday's non-mainland bowl games provide them?

Head coach's bowl record: Gus Malzahn is 0 - 2 in bowl games, losing the BCS National Championship Game two years ago and the Outback Bowl last year.