Sentences with phrase «conference championship games»

They played two halves of perfect football in conference championship games... spread out over the two games.

There are several conference championship games this weekend which can potentially impact the playoff race.

His talented, experienced Gators went 10 - 2 in»98 but lost the only two games that mattered, to Tennessee and Florida State; missed the Southeastern Conference championship game for the second straight year after five appearances in a row; and after September were never a factor in the national title race.

If nothing goes wrong for them next week in their respective conference championship games, they should be your BCS Championship Game representatives.

Last year, TCU coach Gary Patterson advocated for an eight - team playoff after his team got left out, saying that he would be fine having another round in place of conference championship games.

Western Carolina would have advanced to their second NCAA Tournament had they beaten Wofford in the Southern Conference championship game on Monday...

With the Power 5 conference titles games stealing the mainstream sports media spotlight, bettors may not be focusing on the American Athletic Conference championship game between Memphis and Central Florida.

Two of the best teams on the West Coast are facing each other yet again in the West Coast Conference championship game, and the bitter rivals are tied at 36 after the first half.

He was referring to the Tigers» 16 - 13 overtime victory over previously unbeaten Alabama, which gave LSU the inside track on a spot in the Southeastern Conference championship game, but Russell could have been talking about a dizzying day throughout the SEC that was, depending on your point of view, exhilarating or devastating.

Both teams, if unbeaten, would play conference championship games against less - than - stellar opponents.

He quarterbacked Oakland to five straight conference championship games.

Although the only picks we officially endorse are our Best Bets, I wanted to examine two heavily bet conference championship games involving one - sided public betting.

Interested in analyzing this data for the both of the NFL conference championship games?

Vikings vs Cardinals and jets vs Broncos conference championships games would be an epic story line!

The losers of Saturday's two primetime Power 5 conference championship games square off in Miami's home stadium with considerably lower stakes than they had hoped for, taking the edge off the lowest New Year's Six matchup on our rankings.

Here's your weekly look at S&P + win probabilities, excluding conference championship games.

THE NIGHT BEFORE we faced the Patriots in the first conference championship game of my career, I gave a speech.

That ranking locks on Selection Sunday, Dec. 3, after conference championship games.

The franchise has advanced to two Super Bowls and five conference championship games over that span.

Oklahoma is receiving an overwhelming majority of the spread tickets and money (see chart below), making it the most public side of the major conference championship games.

Below you can see the College Football Playoff Rankings heading into conference championship games.

On Monday morning, 5Dimes posted look - ahead lines for all eight potential conference championship game matchups.

The first of the Power 5 conference championship games kicks off tonight with Stanford and USC vying for the Pac - 12 title.

Conference championship game pairs the two teams with the best record.

The West Conference Conference championship game takes place this evening at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the two participants should be familiar to bettors.

The 2017 college football conference championships games are right around the corner, prompting oddsmakers at BetDSI to post lookahead lines for the biggest potential championship matchups.

However, the current betting %'s are good news for TCU backers — via Bet Labs, teams attracting less than 50 % of spread bets in conference championship games are 40 -28-3, and that win rate improves to 62.2 % ATS when a team is receiving less than 40 % of spread tickets.

The Patriots and Falcons dominated the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers in their respective conference championship games.

With four conference championship games on tap this afternoon, let's take a moment to examine the line movement for these key matchups using our College Basketball Betting Trends.

The University of Connecticut and its women's soccer program would like to apologize for an inappropriate gesture a UConn student - athlete made to an ESPNU camera following today's American Athletic Conference championship game.

In one of the nation's most underrated rivalries, the St. Mary's Gaels (26 - 5, 14 - 2 WCC) will take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs (25 - 5, 13 - 3 WCC) in the West Coast Conference championship game.

Bear executives scrambled to buy a $ 50 million policy to cover their Jan. 12 conference championship game against the Los Angeles Rams.

His supporters point at his Super Bowl XI ring, five straight conference championship games and the fact that he is one of only three quarterbacks who played in the 1970s who are in the all - time top 50 of completion percentage (59.8 percent).

Interested in analyzing this data for both of the NFL conference championship games?

The logic: Two teams that lost their conference championship game meet in the Alamo Bowl this year.

Instead, it will have two teams from the SEC, including one team that did not reach their conference championship game.

If you're not a football person, you might not know, but we're approaching the culmination of the NFL season: There are now only four teams left in the league's playoffs, and this weekend's conference championship games will determine who will meet in the Super Bowl on February 5.

Lose, and they lost to Duke — DUKE — in a conference championship game.

The Method: This is a two - team playoff of sorts, in which two participants are chosen for a national title game by a mix of human pollsters and computer rankings after all regular season and conference championship games are played.

Trayvon Reed had 17 points and 10 rebounds, Demontrae Jefferson added 15 points and Texas Southern downed top - seeded Arkansas - Pine Bluff 84 - 69 Saturday in the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship game.

And those who have conference championship games will be rather heavily favored in those, too.

This year, in the days and weeks before the conference championship games, Kornegay, who is now the vice president of race and sports book operations at the LVH, met with his staff to review what prop bets will be offered for this year's Super Bowl.

Whether the Big 12 has a conference championship game or not probably isn't the reason it doesn't have a team in the Playoff.

The Falcons made it to the Super Bowl and a conference championship game with Julio.

On the Thursday following the conference championship games, LVH released this year's prop bet menu.

Does the conference championship game make a difference, or does it not?

But the Big 12 decided to add a conference championship game for next season, even though it only has 10 teams and no divisions, in part because the conference believed it would improve its chances of making the Playoff.

The conference championship games held the final piece to the bowl puzzle, setting up our final bowl projections.

The Bulls now will have to beat UCF on the season's final day to even make the American Conference championship game.

Both were in the conference championship game in year two.