Sentences with phrase «defending national champions»

Being left out basically off the field should fuel State and especially so when playing against the defending National Champions.

Not even Alabama coach Nick Saban believes the Crimson Tide defense will shut down Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel Saturday when the defending national champions meet the defending Heisman Trophy winner on his home field.

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The Terps lost 3 - 0 to the defending national champions that day, but all three goals came on corner kicks.

Hagerty, a junior at Maryville in St. Louis and top - ranked in Division II at 149 pounds, beat Andrew Bannister of Notre Dame (Ohio) College 7 — 3 to help the Saints upset the defending national champions at the NWCA National Duals in Fort Wayne, Ind..

Stepping in as a true freshman quarterback for Nick Saban and the defending national champions is no easy task, but Hurts outlasted other highly - recruited quarterbacks to secure the starting spot on the No. 1 team in the nation.

Alabama, the defending National Champions, will head to Michigan this summer to attend the SoundMind SoundBody camp.

After biting their lips for a week while the Miami Hurricanes woofed and howled their contempt for the Crimson Tide, the Alabama players dominated and, perhaps more satisfying, muzzled the defending national champions with a 34 - 13 win in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's.

Cam Johnson, a grad - transfer wing out of Pitt, will be playing next year with the defending national champions, it was announced...

«Speaking of the Tide, they're the defending national champions.

Of course it is still a reach to say the Mustangs, from a two - bid league, with a first - year head coach, in the same region as the defending national champions and pre-season favorites, can get to Glendale, but I haven't seen a more worthy team with that number next to their name in a long time.

Not only will the defending National Champions be playing «That Team Up North» on November.

The defending national champions are now ranked No. 1 in the country heading into the ACC championship game.

Brissett went throw - for - throw with Jameis Winston two years ago, finishing 32 of 48 for 359 yards and three touchdowns in a 56 — 41 loss to Florida State in 2014 that required a furious second - half comeback on the part of the defending national champions.

Oklahoma State's loss to the defending national champions was one part admirable and one part head - shaking.

After a 79 - yard touchdown run by backup quarterback Zander Diamont, the Hoosiers trailed defending national champion Ohio State by just seven points in the fourth quarter.

This one pitted the defending national champion against the eventual national champion.

Sophomore pitcher Nicole May is already committed to two - time defending national champion Oklahoma.

The Regionals, meanwhile, begin Saturday with Boston College vs. Connecticut at Kingston, R.I.; Princeton vs. West Virginia and St. John's vs. Temple at Blacks - burg, Va.; Western Kentucky vs. Dayton and Toledo vs. Virginia Tech at Lexington, Ky.; Houston vs. New Mexico State and defending national champion Texas Western vs. Seattle at Fort Collins, Colo..

Coach Bud Wilkinson's University of Oklahoma Sooners had beaten Southern California, the defending national champion, 17 - 12 in a magnificent college football game.

Villanova won the national championship last year, the Wildcats are the No. 1 overall seed in this tournament, they have more wins entering the NCAA tournament than any defending national champion before them, and they have maybe the best player in the country in Josh Hart.

If not for a loss to defending national champion BYU (1984 is next), Air Force would have positioned for a title claim.

All they had to do was beat the defending national champion on the road, in wet weather, and without Cook.

They beat Middle Tennessee State the week before, 38 - 20, giving them a transitive victory over defending national champion Clemson (thanks, Syracuse!).

The ACC's divisions are random and cruel (and pointless)-- despite beating FSU and Louisville, State will still probably have to knock off defending national champion Clemson to reach the conference title game — but whether conference title dreams are realistic or not, this is beginning to look like the breakout campaign we thought Doeren had in him but hadn't seen yet.

Auburn finished the season smoking hot after taking down two straight top - five teams, including the two - time defending national champion and SEC East champion Missouri.

Even an optimist had to tap the brakes a bit when realizing what defending national champion Ohio State returns.

Along the way, they set new attendance standards — they drew a record 14,066 for their penultimate home game, a 66 — 64 victory over No. 2 Ohio State — and beat a raft of highly ranked foes (No. 1 Stanford, the Buckeyes, No. 3 Notre Dame) as well as defending national champion Connecticut, in Hartford.

On Nov. 14, he hit the pinnacle, signing a letter of intent with the defending national champion Kentucky Wildcats, a program not only enriched with great tradition under Adolph Rupp, but now, under John Calipari, the poster child of high profile, fast talking, seven - figure - a-year college coaches.

Early in the season opener — against defending national champion Delaware, no less — the starter, senior Mike Granieri, tore up his knee.

The defending national champion in the outdoor two mile (8:53.59), he won the state Federation Championship 5K race last fall (15:30.40) and owns the country's best time in the indoor 3,200 meters this season (9:09.77).

The LSU Tigers, taking a page from their 1958 playbook, pulled defending national champion Florida down to earth

#MertzOfferWatchSzn is still upon us, as four - star Wisconsin verbal commit, quarterback Graham Mertz announced on Monday night that Alabama — yes that defending national champion Alabama — had offered him.

A dashboard video of Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett being arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated has been released, showing the captain of the defending national champion Buckeyes as he was pulled over, denied consuming alcohol and... more

Redshirt sophomore J.T. Barrett will make his first start of the season Saturday when the defending national champion Buckeyes play at... more

They will face defending national champion South Carolina in the Times Union Center in Albany on Saturday.

The SU women's basketball team earned a shot to play defending national champion and unbeaten UCONN with a hellacious effort against Washington, blowing out the Huskies 80 - 59 in a NCAA Tournament semifinal game last night in Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Not exact matches

Having the United States government essentially declare the firm a national champion allowed the chip maker to defend itself from rival Broadcom's $ 117 billion takeover bid.

And by Saturday at dinnertime the last of the verbal battles were raging from the Bluegrass Room to the Julep Lounge, from Gordon's Golden Horse to the Bit»n Spur, and even in that rare unequine setting, the Boom Boom Room, as to which team was going to win the national title: defending champion Cincinnati or its hated foe, the squad that has been ranked No. 1 for two straight seasons, Ohio State?

She called it a «really humbling experience» to be headed to play for the Sooners, the defending back - to - back national champions.

The Pacers are gunning for the defending Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat and will have to go through Madison Square Garden on national television in order to build key momentum down the stretch.

In the 800 - meter women's finals, the two favorites, current national and defending North American champ Michelle Conroy of St. Paul, Minn. and Peggy Hartrich, former national champion, from St. Louis, Mo., were both disqualified — Conroy for charging, Hartrich for pushing.

His team is five - time defending American Collegiate Rowing Association national champions.

Without a defending champion, an unbeaten team or a solid favorite in sight, the big boys of college basketball begin their annual two - week rumble to determine the national championship

And coming into the 2011 season, the Spartans were a two - time defending CIF Open Division state champion while St. Thomas Aquinas was still happy about being mythical national champions both in 2008 and 2010.

Barbara, a 21 - year - old junior, and Kathy, an 18 - year - old freshman, sisters who played No. 2 women's doubles at Stanford, defeated Diane Morrison and Susie Hagey, the No. 1 team and the two - time defending champions, 5 - 7, 6 - 3, 7 - 6, to win the national collegiate title at Salisbury, Md..

S. Diving Indoor Championships in Baton Rouge as the defending champion in all three men's events and with a mind - boggling cache of 41 national titles during his 11 - year career.

As the 40th National League season went into its second month the defending champions trailed while Toronto skaters were making crowds aware of youth

But suddenly, Jason Gore, a man who could seemingly sweat in a refrigerator, was going to be playing with defending champion Retief Goosen for the national golf title.

In what figures to be a competitive series, the defending champion Chicago Cubs are +115 series underdogs in the NLDS against the Washington Nationals.