Sentences with phrase «make national title»

If they make the national title game, they'll have more than earned it.

Butler would go on to make the national title game for the second straight season.

Not exact matches

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The title's national and political baggage made it unacceptable to him.

The Tigers had a disappointing debut, surged to two division titles, bottomed out offensively in 2015, made national headlines for something not just related to sports, and underwent a surprise coaching search after Gary Pinkel revealed he was retiring to fight lymphoma.

And while that might hurt the odds of the conference winning its eighth straight national title (at least, until Alabama reaches fifth gear and makes us feel silly for doubting), this could end up being the deepest SEC in a few years.

Let's hope someone tells Fisher about the one tiny wording detail that makes this trophy not the same one he'd get if the Aggies were to win an actual national title.

Trojan Force Led by zealous coach Pete Carroll, USC is summoning up memories of Pac - 10 glory and making an impassioned run at its first outright national title in three decades

The Huskies made history in 2004 when both the men's and women's basketball teams won the national titles, the first time that occurred in NCAA Division I history.

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).

How Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie, a grudge - holding manager, a clumsy bribe, shoddy record - keeping and a very cool car made the batting title chase a national obsession 100 years ago

I got to help my former roommate Andrew Lawrence, a Sports Illustrated writer, piece together feature story ideas on the off chance that SI would be making a «Congrats, your team just won the national title!»

But at least Harbaugh, unlike previous Michigan coaches who all made their contributions to a seven - decade run that yielded half a national title, hasn't relied on Michigan's crusty brand or its talent - deficient geography and hoped things would fall the Maize and Blue's direction.

Like their 2000 counterparts, the»67 Sooners had not been expected to win their conference, much less make a run at the national title.

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.

If the Buckeyes» goals are to win the Big Ten, make the College Football Playoff and play for the national title — and those goals are constants at Ohio State — then Meyer owes it to his team to make sure Barrett is the best choice as the starter.

Alabama transfer Cooper Bateman, who started for the Tide for part of their 2015 national title campaign before losing his job to Jake Coker, did his best to make an impression in the spring game, going 5 - for - 5 with a touchdown.

Last year's star of the BCS National Championship game, Katherine Webb, was back making news during Monday's FSU - Auburn title.

They're created by the networks and not just the two participating schools, making it easier for national - title hopefuls or aspiring Top 25 programs to find quality opponents.

Two years ago, with a perfect confluence of talent and experience up front, Auburn made a dramatic, unexpected run to a national title.

A 2001 graduate of Williams, she was co-captain of the»01 national championship team, making her one of only two women in D - III tennis history to win titles as a player and a coach.

Still, with Hundley in his third year as starting quarterback, and with well - placed seniors on the defense — Owa Odighizuwa on the defensive line, Eric Kendricks at inside linebacker, Anthony Jefferson at safety — there was supposed to be enough veteran leadership and experience on the roster to make UCLA the favorites in the Pac - 12 South and supposed darkhorse contenders * in the national title race.

«People had always said I was too nice a person to win a national title; that only poor losers made good winners.»

In a sport where winning one national title makes you part of an elite club and winning two makes you an all - time great, they have won seven of the last 12.

Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.

SENIOR WRITER GRANT WAHL was at the sold - out Rose Bowl in 1999 for the Women's World Cup final, when the U.S. national team beat China in a penalty - kick shootout and made the covers of SI, TIME and Newsweek in the same week: Here was a team of pioneering women who personified the goals of Title IX.

Sam Houston State will be looking to make a return trip to the FCS national title game, but first, they must get past Eastern Washington.

If Villanova wins a second national championship in Brunson's three seasons there, the junior point guard will have been the catalyst that made the latest title happen.

Tressel ended up making the right call; Ohio State finished ranked fourth in ’05 and lost the national title game in» 06.

It is an understatement to say that Kenyon made history last Saturday by winning its NCAA - record 25th consecutive national title.

Alabama and Oregon began the year as National Title favorites right behind Florida State, who also made the 4 - team playoff.

After blowing a 20 - point lead in a mid-October loss at LSU, the Tigers were effectively written off as a national title contender — Gus Malzahn's team had also come up short at Clemson in early September, and no two - loss team had ever made the playoff field.

Mater Dei actually won that title, so for St. Mary's to beat the Monarchs in the Open Division with a lineup that's almost 100 percent back this season makes the team an easy choice as preseason No. 1 for the state as well as leading mythical national title contenders.

But after making mediocre teams look like cupcakes for a month, the Seminoles did the same to a team most considered to be a national title contender.

With your national title favorite, two other contenders, and depth it hasn't been able to boast for a couple of years, 2017's SEC will likely come pretty close to living up to its self - made hype.

The Knights» largesse has helped make several Duck programs into perennial national title contenders, Nishimura said.

With his national team Argentina he made over 143 appearences winning 2 Copa America titles.

The Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas made Kentucky a minus - 120 favorite to win the national title, shortly after the Final Four was finalized with Duke's win over Gonzaga.

However, Spain's failure to defend their world title in 2014, or even escape their group after losing 5 - 1 to a largely unfancied Netherlands side and 2 - 0 to a Chile team that made La Roja look old - fashioned rather than fearsome, seemed to expose his weaknesses as national team manager.

Four teams will make the College Football Playoff but which programs are favored to play for the national title?

But even as early as 2001 Adams was making history, becoming the first female boxer to represent England while two years later she became the national amateur champion for the first time — a title she was to retain at the next three Championships.

Florida (13/2): Sixteen returning starters, including Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Tim Tebow auger well for the Gators making a strong rn at their second national title in three years.

In a widely - syndicated piece by the blogger, titled: «Sambo Dasuki: An Encounter with the spymaster,» (http://yashuaib.com/politics/sambo-dasuki-an-encounter-with-spymaster/) Dasuki said he knelt down in 2011 for the former National Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, to make Buhari a joint candidate of the ACN and the defunct Congress of People's Congress (CPC).

In a widely - syndicated piece by the blogger, titled: «Sambo Dasuki: An Encounter with the spymaster,» (http://yashuaib.com/politics/sambo-dasuki-an-encounter-with-spymaster/) Dasuki said he knelt down in 2011 for the former National Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, to make Buhari a joint candidate of the ACN and the defunct Congress of Peoples Congress (CPC).

In the book titled: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria authored by Prof John Padden, the writer had claimed that a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, had put pressure on him to be made the vice presidential candidate but was turned down.

It all seemed quite hopeless until, at the bottom of an article titled «Sleepless Nights Make for Grumpier Brains,» I found a gnomic link: «The National Sleep Foundation has more about how sleep works.»

Haut was the paid author of a paper commissioned by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine titled «Military Trauma Care's Learning Health System: The Importance of Data Driven Decision Making» which was used to support the report titled «A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury.»

A national competition where sports mascots gather for a coveted title is the perfect setting for everything that makes Christopher Guest's mockumentaries...

Now a final NSFW red band trailer makes one last attempt to get audiences on board the new family truckster for a trip that is more raunchy and rowdy than any of the preceding National Lampoon titles.

ANOTHER first time filmmaker Adam Pesce, makes a very strong debut here, as he chronicles the ill effects on these islanders of their dreams of competing in the inaugural Papua New Guinea National Surfing Titles.