Sentences with phrase «early season matchup»
An early season matchup can always cause problems when teams don't quite have an identity yet.
http://www.diehardsport.com/ Not exact matches
It's not the first time a late, broken play has changed the outcome of bets and fantasy matchups across the country — earlier in the season the Chiefs had a similar play on «Monday Night Football» against the Redskins, leaving bettors elated or furious depending on which side of the game they were on.
It's not inconceivable that the NFC West champion could finish below.500 for a second consecutive season, because most of the divisional games are on the back end of the schedule — after tough early matchups.
In an interesting twist, both Final Four matchups are re-matches of early season games.
Since getting only 15 carries in an early - season rout of Appalachian State, he's brought his lunch pail to Clemson's biggest showdowns and gained triple - digit yardage in every matchup against bowl - eligible opponents since.
ince getting only 15 carries in an early - season rout of Appalachian State, he's brought his lunch pail to Clemson's biggest showdowns and gained triple - digit yardage in every matchup against bowl - eligible opponents since.
Although Seattle's matchup in Atlanta will mark the first time this season these two teams will face off against each other, the other three games are all rematches from earlier in the season.
No. 12 LSU never trailed in its opening night victory over No. 20 TCU Saturday, but it was a thrilling matchup that saw two of the top defenses in the country go at it in an early season showdown.
While it may be too early in the season to be calling this matchup make or break for either team, should one team manage all three points from this fixture they may well grab the psychological edge over their title rivals.
In one of the more intriguing coaching matchups of the early college football season, Gus Malzahn's No. 5 Auburn Tigers held off Bill Snyder's No. 20 Kansas State Wildcats, 20 - 14, in Manhattan on Thursday night.
This matchup is particularly interesting because these two squads actually faced off earlier in the season as part of the ACC / Big Ten Challenge.
Huge matchup early in the season that could potentially have major ramifications down the road.
Sure, that wasn't the sexiest matchup of the NFL slate that day, but it was still a football game getting beat by a weekday NHL early season game.
Inside The NFL, Season 8, Episode 20: The INSIDE THE NFL cast takes an early look at the Super Bowl 50 matchup between Cam Newton's Carolina Panthers and Peyton Manning's Denver Broncos.