Sentences with phrase «left out of the playoff»

The math is also not a fan of the Bengals who if they lost vs. Denver and at Pittsburgh would be left out of the playoffs.

There is also a ~ 15 % chance that Alabama could miss the playoff and the vaunted SEC would be left out of the playoff entirely.

I also don't see how Florida State could go undefeated and be left out of the playoff.

That perception shifts every time a different league gets left out of the playoff.

Not exact matches

Last season, after the Browns failed to make the playoffs for the third year in a row, Modell said, «I'm so positive of Bill Belichick's future here... that if we don't get the job done by the end of his contract [1995], I will get out of football and leave Cleveland.»

Norwich City will be satisfied to come out of the first leg of their playoff tie against rivals Ipswich Town with a draw, but there's everything left to play for after their 1 - 1 deadlock, especially now that away goals are no longer a tiebreaker in the promotion playoffs.

According to the Cavs, Love will be out the entire second - round of playoffs (likely against the Bulls) after tearing the labrum in his left shoulder.

At least one of the power five conferences will be left out of this year's Playoff, and as one of the weaker power conferences, the ACC could be in trouble if its only undefeated team, Florida State, loses.

Kyrie Irving, who was injured in overtime and had to leave the game, will reportedly be out the remainder of the playoffs

At the 17th his par putt lipped out, then at 18 he left a downhill birdie putt short, just as he would in the first hole of the playoff.

The problem with a four - team Playoff is that at least one of the power conference champions is always going to be left out.

The man who lost to Woods in a 19 - hole playoff at last year's U.S. Open — Tiger's last appearance before knee surgery — pulled out of the Buick Invitational after having arthroscopic surgery on his left knee.

Ichiro Suzuki's return to Seattle shows he has something left to offer, all those midseason rotation adds end up paying off this year, and Felix Hernandez is able to pull out of his early 30s slide long enough to give the Mariners a reliable starting five, a place in the AL Wild Card hunt, and the end of what is currently the longest playoff - drought in North American sports.

In the NFC, five of the six teams have punched their ticket to the playoffs and all that's left for them to do is to figure out the seeding.

Tons of time to turn it around and with so many weeks left and so many playoff spots out there..

Trying to build on their two touchdown lead with just more than six minutes left in the first half after forcing yet another Denver Broncos punt, the New England Patriots went three - and - out for the first time in the AFC Divisional Round of the playoffs.

Alabama fell all the way behind USC and 11 - 1 Penn State in the exercise, leaving the Tide out of the playoff picture and causing the SEC communication director to question its real - world application.

By any measure of logic — and justice — the Hawks should have been playing garbage time from Thanksgiving on, but the luck of the NBA's four - way divisional split has left Atlanta with only Cincinnati to beat out for the playoff spot behind Baltimore in the Central Division.

Honestly, in spite of how much I try to shove it to the back of my mind, I hold out a secret hope that (unlike last year), we start to peak with a month or two left in the season and go into the playoffs on a tear.

We've never seen two teams from the same conference in the College Football Playoff, but if both Georgia and Alabama are undefeated heading into an SEC title game, it'll be hard for the committee to leave one of them out, regardless of the winner.

It will be virtually impossible for the fifth - ranked team left out of a four - team playoff to somehow lay claim to no. 1, but in the pre-playoff era, anything was possible, if you willed it to be so: According to a note in Army's own football media guide, they did win the national championship in 1946.

Gaetano Berardi said earlier in the week that Leeds need a better left back than him to compete for the playoffs, and while it's a decent sentiment from the right back played out of position this season, it's not necessarily what you'd like to see from one of your key players, even if it is pretty much accurate.