His college accolades include three
national championships at UCLA and he is the only player in history to be named «Most Valuable Player» of the Tournament three times.
I'd prefer to sell recruits by 2020 the exact same way as OSU, Alabama, USC (i.e. you can come win
national championships at Maryland).
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.
Ara Parseghian, who used freshmen to help produce
a national championship at Notre Dame in 1973 (no traditionalist, he), says look at golf.
Johnny Miller, who wastes no opportunity to remind the world he fired a 63 in the 1973
national championship at Oakmont, was less than gracious in acknowledging Thomas» feat.
Although Brown has stated that he is committed to win
a national championship at SMU, Brown has moved from +10,000 to +2,500 at Sportsbook.com.
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.
Would he have fallen short of
a national championship at Mississippi State?
That's especially true about UCLA, which is tied for the best odds to win
the national championship at 5Dimes (+800).
Now obviously, these polls do not matter as the College Football Playoff committee will decide who will play for a chance at
the national championship at the end of the season.
The LVH Superbook took 14 ham - sandwich bets on Auburn to win
the national championship at 1,000 - to - 1.
The Wolverines were 10 - 1 to win
the national championship at the SuperBook entering the weekend, but dropped back to 60 - 1 after the last - second loss.
If the U.S. Open or the U.S. Amateur is not in your future, this three - day tournament may be your only chance to compete for
a national championship at beautiful and challenging Pebble Beach!
Not exact matches
This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports
at Riot Games, to discuss the world
championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4
at the Bird's Nest
National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.
Currently, he's the head football coach and chair of athletics
at Coastal Carolina University, where he has been part of seven
championship teams (with four
National Playoffs and three Conference Championships).
In the quest to win a
national championship, I wasn't just burning the candle
at both ends, I was taking a flamethrower to it and the toll it took added up.
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.
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.
Ennie Argence of New Orleans, driving the hydroplane Gun Shy in the
championships of the
National Inboard Hydroplane meet
at Cape Coral, Fla., established a five - mile competitive speed record in the 266 - cubic - inch class, averaged 80.501 mph.
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.
Going from nothing
at Pitt to the
national championship and the Heisman.
Kelani qualified for the
national team in June with her third straight singles age - division
championship at the USA Racquetball Junior Olympics.
# 11 Karen Budge JACKSON Won women's combined title
at 1967
National Alpine
championship; North American women's champion in» 71.
Seeing Matt Kenseth stand on the roof of his No. 20 car, fist raised in the air celebrating victory followed by a tearful interview to a
national viewing audience, gave the impression his win Sunday
at Phoenix Raceway carried some kind of
championship implication.
Kahsar, a 23 - year - old chemical engineering graduate student
at UC - Boulder, won the overall title
at the age group
national championships in Burlington, Vt., in 1:52:18.
Wichita State won the
national championship in 3.0 % of our simulations, which is significantly higher than the implied probability
at the Westgate Superbook (1.23 %).
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.
At -1000, the oddsmakers believe there is more than a 90 % chance that Saban returns to Alabama to go for
national championship number seven.
North Carolina, who would defeat Gonzaga in the
national championship the following day, opened with the fourth best odds
at +1,200.
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).
«He was always changing and adapting,» says Jackie Sherrill, who played on two of Bryant's
national championship teams in the early»60s and now coaches
at Mississippi State.
Only four teams have attracted more money than Jim Harbaugh's Wolverines in the
national championship futures pool
at the SuperBook.
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.»
SKIING — GORDON EATON, Middlebury College sophomore, handily won the
national giant slalom
championship at Pinkham Notch, N.H. over Marvin Moriarty of Stowe, Vt..
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.
If Kansas State is to maintain its
national championship aspirations, its unpredictable, Tarkentonesque quarterback Michael Bishop (3,150 total yards) must convincingly lead the Wildcats, 11 - 0 but No. 3 in the Bowl
Championship Series standings, past Texas A&M (10 - 2 and ranked No. 10) in the Big 12 title game
at the TWA Dome in St. Louis.
Phil Mahre of White Pass, Wash, won the giant slalom title
at the U.S.
National Alpine Ski
championships in Mission Ridge, Wash..
When he was 14 she drove him east in her Model A to the
national boys»
championships at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Ind..
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.
Remember, in his previous stint
at Pitt, Majors took over a 1 - 10 team and four years later won the
national championship.
Amid 12 years that began with a game relocated by Hurricane Katrina, included the 2007
national championship and 113 other wins, and ended with an astounding loss
at Auburn, LSU finally succeeded in firing Les Miles.
While
at UCLA, Conine won the 1985
national junior
championship racquetball title, but his three - year ERA was 6.06.
«
At least in today's statistical terms, Cade McNown was pretty ordinary, but man, did he look great to my 15 - year old eyes, which made the possibility of the local team going to the
national championship kind of fun until Edgerrin James was all like, â $ ˜ Nope.»
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.
Monday was the night Saban won his fifth
national championship and fourth
at Alabama.
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.
He accepted the head job
at Alabama, and college football would never be the same: Wade would win three
national titles and four Southern Conference
championships in eight years.
He leaves Florida State after eight years
at the helm and
national championship in the trophy case.