Sentences with phrase «national title contender»

If he can, North Carolina is again a legitimate national title contender once Johnson returns from injury.

In just a few short years, Joanne P. McCallie has transformed the Michigan State women from also - rans into national title contenders

That USC team that we all thought was a genuine national title contender (and that spent most of last season providing evidence for it)?

Last week, the Sun Devils completely shut down national title contender Washington in a 13 - 7 win.

The latter is a Pac - 12 and perhaps national title contender.

Neither have produced many national title contenders recently.

Until the fluky loss to Michigan State on Oct. 17, Michigan was looking like a potential national title contender.

Graham has taken a roster that lost key players like Frank Mason and Josh Jackson and turned them into a legit national title contender and dominating force in what's considered one of college hoops» best conferences.

While it rarely pits national title contenders, it almost always produces close games.

Penn State won't quite have the depth of other national title contenders; Franklin's recruiting has been good and is getting better, but we're talking top - 20 good, not Meyer / Saban good.

Penn State is the prototypical second - tier national title contender.

In the first eight games of the year, the Tigers were bona fide national title contenders.

They'll face near - national title contender Georgia, which won 11 games but dropped the SEC Championship, in the Capital One Bowl, the second year in a row in Orlando for the Huskers.

No matter how cannibalistic the parity of this division, surely the defending league champions and perpetual national title contenders are immune.

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.

Fresh off a 10 - 3 season and the thrashing of Florida in the Citrus Bowl, Las Vegas sees Michigan as a viable National Title contender for the 2016 - 17 season, according to the William Hill Book in Nevada.

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

John Cassillo of The Comeback attempts to explain how Louisville and Bobby Petrino built an unconventional national title contender.

The Louisiana State Tigers were national title contenders earlier this season, opening the year 7 - 0, but most sports betting sharps saw the cracks.

As an homage to the late, great Beano Cook, I'm sure, Notre Dame decided to actually become a legitimate national title contender this year.

You had to have faith in FSU's recruiting and offensive coaching to believe in the Noles as a national title contender, but it wasn't difficult to find that faith, especially with the return of quarterback Deondre Francois.

The ACC's strength has been its depth, and next year it could have especially impressive depth and two national title contenders.

A No. 19 defense would allow the Sooners to run away with the Big 12 this year, but that's the bare minimum for what's required if we're to treat the Sooners as a national title contender.

In 1980, the schedule nearly created a national title contender.

Using S&P + win probabilities (which you can find in the Football Study Hall stat profiles), let's walk through which of our national title contenders are most likely to still be in good shape three weeks from now and who's got the toughest remaining slate.

Some had Auburn pegged as a national title contender before the season, but after a near loss to FCS Jacksonville State and a blowout loss at LSU, it was clear this Auburn team wasn't close to contending.

Inspired by a devastating defense, Georgia roused itself against LSU and looked like a national title contender

With a tough loss to national title contender, Boise State (3), and a huge upset to the Football Championship Sub-division's, James Madison, the Hokies are finding their stock in public support plummeting.

The national title contenders closed the games like title contenders are supposed to.

With Mariota and the incredible Oregon offense leading the way, the defense doesn't need to play at a top - five level for the Ducks to be a national title contender.

If Michigan is a national title contender, it won't be a shock to see Peppers in the Heisman running.

Stanford is a national title contender, and stands at top of the pack of one - loss teams.

KSU wasn't likely to be a national title contender this season, so while losing this game was a huge missed opportunity to win a big game, it didn't really detract from the Wildcats» season goals.

Georgia 41, Tennessee 0 (Sept. 30): This one hurt more at the time, before it became crystal clear that the Bulldogs were a national title contender.

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.

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.

So the story after the game was that Michigan is still a national title contender, and perhaps a stronger one because it survived the scare from a plucky team that every national champion seems to face.

Barkley is PSU's leading rusher and receiver, and if he's on the field, Penn State is a national title contender.