Sentences with phrase «national championship games»

Advanced planning for coverage of larger events in Southern California or involving Southern California teams, including five NBA Finals, three NCAA Final Fours, two Stanley Cup Finals, one Super Bowl, one World Series and two BCS national championship games

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.

Each is playing for a spot in respective NCAA national championship games on Monday or Tuesday.

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.

The table below compares the betting trends for the past nine national championship games.

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.

Underdogs have covered in the past four national championship games.

In the month leading up to Notre Dame's first trip to the national championship game in more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, Alabama.

These are all things that happened to Alabama during the national championship game: A player collapsed on the sideline.

They'll play Georgia in the Rose Bowl, with the winner advancing to the national championship game.

Fans of Tebow may remember when he wrote «John 3:16» on his face (in his eyeblack) during the national championship game when he played college football at Florida.

CNN: Mormon linebacker helps lead Catholic Notre Dame to national championship game It was a goal - line stand in the fourth quarter that sealed the University of Notre Dame football team's Saturday victory over the University of Southern California — and earned the No. 1 - ranked team a trip to the national championship game.

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.

Unless you played in the national championship game, officially, Alabama won it.

Running back Kerryon Johnson: «Who played Georgia in the national championship game?

With Duke and North Carolina having played the best basketball of the season, fans yearning for a momentous college game turn their eyes to Chapel Hill and ask, Is this a preview of the March 30 national championship game in San Antonio?

Forgive Holiday, who was born in 1990 and was not even two years old when the Wolverines made itto the national championship game in the Fab Five's debut season.

It was the first home basketball game for the Bulldogs since the football team's loss to Alabama in the national championship game on Monday night.

Using statistical tools, let's measure the watchability of 2014 - 15's 38 bowl games, sans the national championship game.

Bowl odds are out, and Alabama and Oklahoma are the favorites to advance to the national championship game, according to OddsShark.

Hell, we already have one called the «national championship game» ready to host a battle for the national championship.

A double - digit seed has never played in the national championship game, let alone won the whole thing.

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.

They displayed the kind of defense that helped get them to the national championship game last season, forcing the Blue Demons to commit 18 first - half turnovers and miss 14 of their first 15 shots.

We see you out there, people not picking Kentucky to win the national championship game.

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:

So Kelly is not that bad, and he did get us to a national championship game (yes we got smashed!).

The Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament for the third time in six seasons, earned a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the 14th straight year, and are now in the Final Four with the hope of reaching their second national championship game since 2012.

The 15 - point deficit for Notre Dame is the largest comeback ever in a national championship game.

Due in part to the perceived strength of its schedule, Oklahoma got to play USC in the national championship game, while Auburn won the Sugar Bowl and Utah won the Fiesta Bowl.

Nebraska Spirits are low after the 37 - 14 loss to Miami in the national championship game.

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.

Eight different cities have submitted bids to host college football's national championship game in 2016 and 2017, the College Football Playoff announced.

The Seminoles are a traditional powerhouse that has spent the last five years playing in either a BCS bowl, a New Year's Six Bowl or the national championship game.

«This is the first time I've cried since we lost that national championship game in eighth grade,» says James.

Mississippi State is a team looking for revenge in the national championship game in 2018.

On the left side, the two teams that are most likely to play in the national championship game are probably Kentucky and Michigan.

This will be the first time the Tide finish outside the top three since 2007, but in fairness, Nick Saban brings plenty of young talent back, including Tua Tagovailoa and the other true freshmen who starred in the national championship game.

From the New Orleans Bowl to the national championship game, our writers and editors pick all 40 games on the FBS bowl schedule.

With the college basketball national championship game on tap tonight, it's easy to forget that it's also MLB opening day.

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.

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

Monday night marks the first time he's called a national championship game since he was USC's offensive coordinator in 2005.

The original four - team playoff proposal, which was passed in June, called for six bowls to rotate among the two semifinal games played prior to the national championship game.

The 6 ’10 German ended Loyola - Chicago's Cinderella run with a 24 - point, 15 - rebound game that dragged the Wolverines into the national championship game.

Based on public perception, Baylor would likely be a slightly larger underdog against either Kansas or North Carolina, but for the sake of argument, we'll assume the same +180 moneyline in the national championship game.

With 65 % of bets, they have the highest percentage of spread bets we've ever tracked for a national championship game since 2005.

Largely based on a strong performance in the national championship game, Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson jumped from +800 to +450 to become the undisputed front - runner.

SAN ANTONIO — Before Michigan became the hottest team in college basketball and rode a 14 - game winning streak to a Big Ten tournament title and the national championship game against Villanova, the team's captains gathered at the end of a grueling summer looking for a bonding exercise.

In my preview of the national championship game, I laid out Michigan's seemingly impossible task: Find a way to slow down Villanova while simultaneously generating enough offense for the defensive effort to be worth it.