Sentences with phrase «national championship game as»

Because that QB just won us a national championship game as a freshman.

Not exact matches

Games such as this Saturday's between Notre Dame and Ohio State are suddenly more meaningful, and the air may yet thicken with controversy if the eventual Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl matchups preclude a true national - championship game.

For several moments, it seemed as though Gonzaga's quest to make it back to the Final Four and avenging last year's national championship game loss would end before it ever really got started.

That's what has happened in preparation for this year's national championship game, as Ohio State will get a big advantage over Oregon this week, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy:

Brian Daboll was hired as Alabama's new OC after Steve Sarkisian took the Atlanta Falcons OC job (another connection) after last year's national championship game.

In his first tenure as coach of the Trojans, from 1976 to» 82, he led them to three Rose Bowl wins and the 1978 national championship and won 82 % of his games, third highest among currently active Division I coaches.

The locations for the national championship games following the 2015 and 2016 seasons are out, as the two finalists from the four - team Playoff will square off in Glendale and Tampa, ESPN's Brett McMurphy is reporting.

As he enters a national championship game against Michigan on Monday night (9:20 p.m. ET, TBS), his per - game line is immaculate: 19.2 points, five assists, and three rebounds in 32 minutes.

Amat had come into California's Southern Section Division I championship game against Mater Dei High (from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked team in the nation — unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.

Duke fans will remember him as the surprise national championship game hero.

Kiffin's never - boring tenure as Alabama offensive coordinator ended just days before the last national championship game after his candid comments about head coach Nick Saban's program in an interview with Sports Illustrated, which allowed him to get a head start making a splash as the new coach of lowly Florida Atlantic, winners of just three games the previous year.

As a result of the incident in the national championship game against Georgia, Brown will have certain stipulations he must meet before being allowed to join the football team at TSU.

Michael Jordan and his long - ago - gone - viral weepy face was, of course, at the center of attention this week after being courtside as his alma mater, UNC, lost the NCAA men's basketball national championship game to Villanova at the buzzer.

The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame coach — who wasn't even Catholic — took teams to five national championship games, winning her first three years as coach.

I was raised in New Jersey as a University of Illinois fan (my parents met there), and my Dad and I went to the 2005 Final Four in St. Louis, where the Illini lost to North Carolina in the national championship game.

I ran into prominent Dallas collector Derek Wilson at the Johannes Vogt booth, which was showing a few works by the young Dallas - based artist Josh Reams, and after gushing about how awesome Monday's NCAA national championship game was (as I've mentioned in these pages, Mr. Wilson and myself are both proud graduates of Duke University) I asked if he had already bought anything.