Sentences with phrase «in national title games»

It's a small sample size but teams getting less than 40 % of bets in National Title games have gone 5 - 1 ATS (dogs 4 - 0 ATS, favorites 1 - 1 ATS).

He took the Runnin» Rebels to four Final Fours, winning in 1990 behind Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon and Greg Anthony, crushing Duke 103 - 73 in the national title game.

Yes, few outside of the SEC region were excited about a rematch in the national title game.

Clemson will have its chances in the national title game, but in Arlington, Alabama proved why it has been the best team in the country.

Clemson's line play was key to mauling Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl and will give the Tigers a chance against Alabama in the national title game.

No. 2 Kansas State had lost to Texas A&M in the Big 12 title game earlier that day, and all UCLA had to do was beat Miami to get a shot at Tennessee in the national title game.

The two played one of the more memorable games in recent tournament history, with the Wildcats prevailing and going on to play in the national title game.

Villanova takes out Arizona and then knocks off North Carolina in a national title game thriller for the second straight year to become college basketball's first repeat champion in a decade.

To me, the best point in this discussion is made by Stewart Mandel: whether we like it or not, the current system is designed so that any talk of resumes is meant to determine who plays in the national title game.

In a down year for the SEC overall, the league has two teams in the national title game and is guaranteed its ninth national title since 2006.

The goal of playing Davis, of wasting a redshirt on a small handful of games, should be pretty obvious: Arkansas wants to win the SEC and, consequently, reserve a spot in the national title game.

Stakes: Florida State is two wins from a spot in the national title game.

Tech's last - second win over the Longhorns had taken them to within two games of the Big 12 South title and within three games of a spot in the national title game.

Donte DiVincenzo absolutely lit up Michigan in the national title game to the tune of 31 points on 10 - of - 15 shooting and a Most Outstanding Player award.

The computers put Cal andBC in the national title game in New Orleans.

Michigan squares off with Loyola - Chicago this Saturday for a spot in the National Title game.

It set the stage for his true coming out party in the national title game.

The «Big Ragu» finished with 31 points and was named Most Outstanding Player in the national title game.

After a 20 — 8 regular season, they entered the»92 NCAA tournament as a No. 6 seed, before losing to Duke in the national title game.

After averaging 12.2 points per game on a UNC team that was beaten at the buzzer in the national title game, Jackson opted to return to Chapel Hill for his junior season.

Not exact matches

Danny Litwhiler, onetime outfielder in the National League, now Florida State University baseball coach, hit seven home runs in seven tournament games depite a broken hand, sparked his Tallahassee, Fla. team to the state slow - pitch softball title.

Kyle Hendricks will start Game 3, almost like an afterthought, as if it's no big deal that he won the ERA title in the National League.

They knocked off No. 1 Alabama, 34 - 28, on a 109 - yard field goal return to end the game, and in the process improved their own national title chances while seriously putting a dent in the SEC's quest for eight in a row.

The Method: The current bowls are maintained with their automatic bids and allocations (sans the BCS national championship game), and after all bowls are played, the top two teams (according to, presumably, the BCS rankings) would play in the title game.

But with Nebraska (1 - 1) dislodged from the top spot in the rankings, the Rose Bowl, which matches the winners of the Big Ten and the Pac - 10, is suddenly a possible site for a national - title game.

Despite home - field advantage, it appears Georgia might have a few more questions to answer in a game that it must win to remain in the national title hunt.

In his second season, the Knights ranked No. 1 in scoring offense and had a 13 — 0 record, capped off by a Peach Bowl win over an Auburn squad that beat both national title game participantIn his second season, the Knights ranked No. 1 in scoring offense and had a 13 — 0 record, capped off by a Peach Bowl win over an Auburn squad that beat both national title game participantin scoring offense and had a 13 — 0 record, capped off by a Peach Bowl win over an Auburn squad that beat both national title game participants.

In the 2003 season, the BCS title game, Coaches Poll, and National Football Foundation decided LSU was the champion, while the Associated Press and Football Writers Association of America decided it was USC.

The Nebraska winning streak, which included back - to - back national titles, had reached 26 when the Huskers arrived in Tempe last Saturday for a game against Arizona State.

Frost sits back in his new office, wearing a Nebraska sweatshirt and a Tennessee Titans hat — a nod to Marcus Mariota, who led the Oregon offenses Frost coordinated under Mark Helfrich to a national title game trip and a Heisman Trophy.

This week, Boise State is favored by two touchdowns and hopes to move up in the National Title rankings, with several other big games (like Auburn - Alabama, above!)

This game feels, in part, like a referendum: Is Wisconsin good enough to topple college football's Brahmans, or is it capped at only ever being a quiet miracle, good enough to sustain a nearly irreplicable run of success but never win a national title?

That's how Ohio State Coach Fred Taylor would describe the basketball game in which OSU lost the national title to Cincinnati's Bearcats

When it was over, the Crimson Tide had a 45 - 40 victory, their fourth national title since 2009 and the glory of prevailing in one of the best national championship games ever.

Two years ago the Cornhuskers lost Frazier for eight games because of blood clots in his right leg and still went 13 - 0 and won the national title.

On five separate occasions, demonstrably superior USC teams have lost to UCLA, often with a conference or national title on the line: 1992 (to a walk - on fifth string quarterback), 1994 (with the Rose Bowl possibly on the line), 1995, 2006 (with a national title shot on the line), and 2012 (with a spot in the first Pac - 12 title game at stake).

That game is perhaps the most delicious peak Alabama performance of the Nick Saban era as the Tide took the Irish apart limb from limb from the opening whistle in Miami to win the national title.

Few national title games this century were on par with this one — maybe Ohio State upsetting Miami, Texas outdueling USC and Florida State surviving Auburn would be in the conversation.

In nine years, he's now won four national championships and gone undefeated in title games, with another title before his Tuscaloosa arrivaIn nine years, he's now won four national championships and gone undefeated in title games, with another title before his Tuscaloosa arrivain title games, with another title before his Tuscaloosa arrival.

If Kansas State is to maintain its national championship aspirations, its unpredictable, Tarkentonesque quarterback Michael Bishop (3,150 total yards) must convincingly lead the Wildcats, 11 - 0 but No. 3 in the Bowl Championship Series standings, past Texas A&M (10 - 2 and ranked No. 10) in the Big 12 title game at the TWA Dome in St. Louis.

After two jam - packed weekends, we basically get one game likely to affect the national title race (Michigan at Wisconsin), and it's in Saturday's early time slot.

Texas fans, annoyed by Oklahoma getting the tie - breaker in a three - way Big 12 South tie (and thus a path to the national title game), paid for a banner with the score of the game to fly over Bedlam that November.

While the 2006 loss kept the Sooners out of the running for the national title game, the»08 and»15 Sooners both made the title game / Playoff, each time losing in the Orange Bowl to a team with orange helmets quarterbacked by a dual - threat star (Florida's Tim Tebow and Clemson's Deshaun Watson).

Nebraska players are surrounded by reminders of their back - to - back titles (shirts, posters, stadium banners, bumper stickers), and highlights of their epic 62 - 24 thrashing of Florida in last January's Fiesta Bowl, which clinched national crown number two, ran incessantly on stadium scoreboards during timeouts in Saturday's game.

But he won 11 games in that first season — and just two years later, Miles matched Saban with a Tigers national title of his own.

After two straight trips to the national title game due largely to points in the paint and second chance opportunities, they suddenly find themselves without the tools necessary to follow their own blueprint for success.

If Clemson wins: Would you believe that the Tigers would be both all but guaranteed a spot in the ACC Championship Game and well - situated to play for a national title?

A closer inspection reveals that Kamar Baldwin didn't get the shot off in time, but whatever, that inconvenient fact keeps us from comparing his shot to Gordon Hayward's famous 2010 national title game heave, so we're going to ignore it.

The Wildcats beat Wichita in one of the most dramatic games of the tournament, and then they beat four more teams en route to the national title game.

Even with McGwire available for only 89 games last season, the Cardinals still won the Central Division title before losing to the Mets in the National League Championship Series.