Sentences with phrase «national championship this season»

The ratings used a weighting system that tied 40 percent of a rating to national championship seasons (sounds a bit biased toward, Bama, huh?)

Clemson won the national championship this season.

In 1991, at the climax of Washington's undefeated national championship season, a Seattle TV station aired a report on the poor graduation rate of the players under coach Don James, who quit on Sunday after Washington was placed on probation (page 11).

Malzahn was the offensive coordinator under Chizik for three seasons, including the 2010 - 11 national championship season, before taking the head coaching job at Arkansas State last year.

Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide won another national championship season last year, and drew 78,526 spectators to Bryant - Denny Stadium Saturday for their spring game, called the «Golden Flake A-Day Game.»

Barrett wasn't supposed to start at Ohio State during the Buckeyes» 2014 national championship season, but he swooped into action when Braxton Miller was lost for the season before their first game.

Beating a giant is fun, but it's a lot more fun if it comes in a national championship season.

I have a pretty good idea who will win the national championship this season.

The Falcons» new digs will also put on the SEC Championship, the Peach Bowl, and December's HBCU national championship each season, plus other neutral - site openers.

Of all the mementos from Pacific Lutheran's magical 1999 national championship season, perhaps the most telling was a letter from Jamie Stevenson, a TWA flight attendant who wrote to say how much she enjoyed working with the team on one trip.

Not exact matches

According to Dan Patrick of «The Dan Patrick Show,» two sources «behind the scenes» at USC told him Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was on the program's «short list» of coaching candidates and they thought he could be talked into returning to USC, where he coached for nine seasons and won two national championships.

In his first four seasons at Coastal, he led his team to the National Playoffs four times and three conference championships while being named Conference Coach of the Year twice, as well as AFCA Regional Coach of the Year in 2014 and winner of the prestigious Eddie Robinson Award for National Coach of the Year in 2015.

Chad is the author of God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC — a funny, insightful book that I especially enjoyed as an Alabama fan because it recounted the season in which Bama won its most recent national championship....

It is not just that he is 26, in his fifth pro season, won a Heisman Trophy and national championship at Auburn, was the league's No. 1 pick and Rookie of the Year in 2011 and likely will be named the NFL most valuable player this year.

When Georgia's gone 7 - 0 before, it meant SEC titles at least, and in one modern case — the hallowed 1980 season — it meant a national championship.

In one of those seasons, 1983, the Hurricanes won the national championship.

LSU led the country in total defense and scoring defense and won the national championship that season.

With 14 starters back this season, including seven on the brilliant defense, Nebraska seemed poised to win an unprecedented third consecutive national championship.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

Entering the season there were many well - respected, sharp bettors picking Iowa as a longshot candidate to win the national championship.

It's interesting to note that Gonzaga entered the season as an 80/1 longshot to win the national championship, but the Bulldogs now have the sixth best title odds at 10/1.

Then there's the high - water mark of the 2011 season, when, as Alvarez mentions, Wisconsin was two Hail Mary touchdowns away (given up to Michigan State and Ohio State) from being undefeated during the regular season and potentially playing for a national championship.

It starts with an elite veteran point guard in Jalen Brunson, a player who already has a national championship to his name and might be college basketball's player of the year this season.

The 2015 - 16 college basketball season ended in the most dramatic fashion possible, with Kris Jenkins knocking down a buzzer - beating three - pointer in the national championship, as the Villanova Wildcats defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels.

Did I go up to a bunch of them and ask them about UCF's national championship claim, on the heels of an undefeated Knights season that saw Alabama win the Playoff?

In the minutes before the kickoff of Nebraska's season - opening 55 - 14 starching of Michigan State, Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne urged his players to embrace a possibility — an unprecedented third consecutive national championship — that would customarily send a coach searching for new ways to say, «One game at a time.»

In 14 seasons at Navy, Bilderback won nine national championships, including an incredible string of eight in a row from 1960 to 1967 when the title was decided by a vote.

He has won a national championship nearly every other season.

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.

Though Detroit just won the National League championship after a bruising 70 - game season, the top four (of six) eastern professional teams have been whacking away at each other all over again to decide who wins the real championship.

Fulmer was 151 -52-1 in 17 seasons in Knoxville, winning a national championship in the 1998 season.

The contradiction: Some in power were ready to fire a national championship - winning coach with no major scandals for a 9 - 2 season.

With four starters back from last season's 23 - 4 team — Guards Lloyd Walton and Butch Lee and Forwards Bo Ellis (6» 9») and Tatum (6» 6»)-- McGuire expected to make a serious run at the national championship.

And if they don't lose before the Orange Bowl, this year will be the eighth time in the past 16 seasons that the winner of the Oklahoma - Nebraska game has either won some version of the national championship or at least contended for it in a bowl.

Despite being less than 24 hours away from the start of the first major championship of the season, the atmosphere was light and jovial at Augusta National on Wednesday.

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.

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.

After Penn State won its first national championship, in 1982, the Nittany Lions stumbled out of the blocks the next season by losing their first three games en route to a 7 -4-1 record.

The Wildcats, who have the second - best odds (+700) of winning the national championship, are +3150 to enter the NCAA tournament with an undefeated record and +5500 to post the perfect season.

With their leading scorer, Grayson Allen, surprisingly deciding to return for his junior season Duke was already listed as the pre-season favorite to win the national championship.

Now 43, he has won more national offshore powerboat championships (five) and more races in one season (six) than any driver in history.

Pitino told his U of L team after a five overtime loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 9 that he wanted them to win the last seven games of the regular season, then the Big East Tournament title and then the national championship.

Bosco lost any legitimate shot at a mythical national championship in the third week of the season when it lost 35 - 20 to Bishop Gorman - Las Vegas in Long Beach.

It used 10 - year averages and didn't give bonus points for championships, which meant that Penn State fans were frustrated by a low 1980s ranking (yes, the Nittany Lions won two national titles; they also won eight or fewer games five times) and Nebraska fans were angry that their Huskers were overtaken by FSU in the 1990s (yes, the Huskers won 2.5 national titles; FSU won two and was generally better in the non-title seasons).

The last time Alabama won a national championship was the 2015 season, Smart's last as defensive coordinator.

Wisconsin beat Kentucky in the Final Four on Saturday night, ending the Wildcats» pursuit of a perfect season and catapulting the Badgers to the national championship after avenging last year's Final Four loss.

In any case, we're betting the odds will continue to churn as Woods kicks off his season at Torrey Pines, where he has won eight times — including that ’08 national championship and PGA Tour win No. 74 in 2013.

Alabama (+600) entered the season with the best odds of winning the national championship at the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook, while Clemson (+700) began the season tied with Florida State for the second best odds.

He sure ought to, old Howard Schnellenberger, the ambitious, pipe - smoking wizard coach who in five seasons led the Hurricanes from torpor to the 1983 national championship and then jumped ship.