Sentences with phrase «games against bowl»

Keep in mind the things the committee does that a poll might not do: specifically value games against other ranked teams, value games against bowl - eligible teams, and reshuffle the entire board every week, rather than just sliding teams up and down.

Not exact matches

Below you'll find our picks against the spread for every bowl game between now and Christmas.

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

If a casual first date is your speed, rent some bowling shoes and play a few games against each other.

And in this scenario, FSU could attempt to reschedule its game against ULM (which was canceled in September) or ask for an NCAA bowl waiver because of the cancellation.

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.

Not only was SMU forbidden to compete against NCAA teams for a year, it also lost 1988 thanks to being barred from playing home games and dealt with a player exodus, a financially disastrous bowl and TV ban through 1989, as well as heavy recruiting and staffing penalties.

Tuesday's St. Petersburg Bowl was the first game of this bowl season to fit the system and saw Marshall, a 5 - point underdog against Florida International, close with 30 % of all spread bets.

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.

While betting against Bielema in a bowl game is scary given his strong track record, I do not believe Arkansas has the juice.

How in the hell were Castonzo and Reitz supposed to keep the likes of DeMarcus Ware and Von Miller off of Luck's ass when they had no running game to speak of, on the road in a usually loud environment and going against a Broncos secondary sporting three Pro Bowlers?

After his very first game as a Philadelphia Eagle in 1995, running back Ricky Watters — already a five - time Pro Bowler and owner of a Super Bowl ring as a member of the 49ers — was asked why he alligator - armed a pass against the Buccaneers.

He did throw for 3 TDs in the bowl game against Central Michigan, 58 % completion rate.

Without access to the all - 22, I can't be sure what Davis» quarterback was seeing against Wisconsin in their bowl game, but it appeared that there were more opportunities to get him the ball.

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

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.

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

A decent showing against the Spartans also may help boost O'Dowd into a higher CIF divisional bowl game this season.

Biggest 2017 game: The Week 2 visit from Nebraska (Sept. 9) will tell us a lot about the Ducks» potential in 2017, and the year - end Civil War against Oregon State (Nov. 23) could determine bowl eligibility for both teams.

The committee's plan for determining which teams play in the best games has not yet been completely disclosed, but if it leads to a common - sense determination of teams based on merit, rather than an application of cryptic and unforgiving rules made solely to prevent unscrupulous bowl executives from turning every big bowl game into Notre Dame against someone vaguely local, it's a massive improvement in the process.

Temple was the conference champ, top 25 team and their bowl game was on a random Tuesday at 3:00 against a bottom tier Power 5 team.

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.

... as well as regular use of a pro-style Hank concept, which uses an option route in the middle of the field to open the curl - flat combo on the outside, though it worked better against Virginia Tech in the bowl game:

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.

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.

As we have previously stated, the value derived from betting against the public is directly correlated with the number of bets placed on each game and marquee bowl games (like BCS Bowls or College Football Playoff game) receive nearly six times more bets than the average regular season game.

I really don't know how I feel about Cook after that game against» Bama, but then again, Derek Carr looked bad in his last bowl game, too.

Kansas State's future has plenty of Thompson in it, starting with a bowl game against the Bruins.

From there, it was back to New Orleans for the bowl game against Auburn, during which he served as holder for both field goals and the extra point in Florida State's 13 - 7 win.

The four bowls not hosting one of the semifinal games would host other marquee bowl games pitting highly ranked teams against one another.

We also know a few big - picture basics that the committee cares about — wins against teams it ranks, wins against bowl teams, and overall command of games — and can think about those things as we go along.

He responded with nine 100 - yard games against Power 5 opponents and arguably the best performance of his career in the only bowl game in which he had the chance to play.

He went 3 - 1 SU and ATS in bowl games, and was 4 - 1 ATS against Alabama.

Wake was a one - unit team — two, if you include special teams — and against lesser foes (and a strong Temple in the bowl game) they were able to define games as low - scoring slogs and then out - execute in that space.

A profitable contrarian strategy for bowl games is betting teams that were bad against the spread in the regular season.

The defense starred in the state championship bowl game against Westlake - Westlake Village, holding the Warriors» high - octane offense (35 points / game) scoreless.

The interception rate ticked up a bit, and his bowl game was miserable (19 - for - 46 for 158 yards and three picks against an awesome NC State defense), but he showed the kind of trend you want in a sophomore.

In fact, VT needed to win their bowl game against Cincinnati just to finish with a winning record.

Yesterday we published an article previewing some of the top trends from the past decade of bowl games, and once again betting against the public has proven to be a winning betting strategy.

Tim Tebow was not 100 percent against Georgia and Michigan in the bowl game, but still, this was too high for such a young team.

In the last three seasons, Michigan is winless against Ohio State, 1 - 2 against Michigan State, 1 - 2 in bowl games and has yet to win the Big Ten East Division.

Tebow's 7.76 YPP in 2007 before a bowl game brownout against Michigan (7.41 after) is also impressive, and it's worth noting that of those three recent SEC quarterback Heisman winners, Tebow did by far the most carrying a team on his back, accounting for 4,181 of Florida's 5,943 total yards (70.4 percent) compared to Manziel's 4,600 of 6,628 (69.4 percent) and Newton's 4,327 of 6,989 (61.9 percent).

New Year's Eve bowls are here and it is time to break down the against the spread predictions information on the game between Houston vs. Florida State in the Peach Bowl.

Without Smith in the bowl game, Georgia will be back to seven scholarship offensive linemen against the Hokies.Every other Georgia player who did not suffer a season - ending injury is expected to play against the Hokies.

The Wildcats started conference play with six - straight losses before closing with three wins against weaker competition, and losing their bowl game handily to a better Arkansas team.

His game - winning touchdown run against Rice kept ODU's bowl hopes alive as the Monarchs will take a three - game winning streak to Murfreesboro.

Teams that made a bowl game last year are 68 -68-1 ATS against teams that didn't.

The first bowl game on Wednesday gets underway at 12:00 pm ET, with Houston (7 - 5 straight - up, 4 - 7 against - the - spread) taking on Air Force (8 - 4 SU, 7 - 4 ATS) in the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth.

«I remember young David Wheater: I hauled him over the coals because he bowled off with Thierry Henry's shirt after a game against Arsenal.

Though LSU is 2 - 5 ATS over its last seven against teams with winning records and 1 - 4 ATS over its last five games as a favorite, the Tigers have fared well at the sportsbook in their recent bowl games.