Sentences with phrase «playoff contender»

Experience — and a quarterback like Patterson — will be especially vital for Michigan if it intends to return to the conversation as a College Football Playoff contender.

The Lions could only manage a draw out at Sheffield United on the weekend, but that was an important game not to lose against a playoff contender.

Over-drafting a player based on an obvious need is not a strategy that will help this team build back up to a playoff contender.

However, he's also the only starter on the trade market who is going to strike out 12 batters over eight innings against a potential playoff contender on the reg.

Iowa was minutes away from its second straight loss, having slid from an undefeated Playoff contender to Rose Bowl participant, a title without ignominy even down five scores.

Duchene went from a dumpster fire to a playoff contender.

But is he really the guy to take a team that's already a playoff contender and push it over the top to become a Super Bowl champion?

How the rams completely flipped their fortunes and look like a playoff contender for years at this point.

Since the Oakdale girls» water polo program started 12 years ago, the players and coaches have worked to make small improvements in order to gradually become an established playoff contender.

The difference between the Braves and any other playoff contender is the Braves have more holes.

Sorry, just don't see us as going from worst record in all of baseball to being a playoff contender in a year.

Luck immediately turned the Colts from the league's worst team into a playoff contender; Griffin became a sensation while earning Offensive Rookie of the Year honors that season.

Post-spring outlook: In between his Twitter wars with other coaches, recruiting extravaganzas and spring break trips, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh is quickly building a playoff contender.

The one key difference, historically speaking: 2004 Auburn played The Citadel, ULM, and Louisiana Tech, while UGA played fellow Playoff contender Notre Dame on the road and won.

This is all working, and if it works against Notre Dame in Miami this coming week, everyone will have to come around to America's Most Relaxed Team being a Playoff contender, single - digit wins and all.

And for some of those players this will be their last season or the last season they are on a team considered to be a playoff contender before the season.

Unfortunately, it's come as the Nets have fallen below expectations as a middling playoff contender after team ownership broke the bank to assemble a squad to compete with the Eastern Conference's elite.

But it's Stafford's ability to stay in the lineup that will determine whether Detroit is a serious playoff contender in the stacked NFC for the first time in years.

Frost's best argument sits almost 500 miles northeast of Lincoln, where defending Big Ten West champion Wisconsin has five top - 10 finishes in the past 12 years and enters the fall as a legitimate playoff contender.

The SEC East has a legit Playoff contender, thanks to a Hail Mary, and the SEC West retains at least one viable challenger to Bama.

The franchise rapidly changed, becoming playoff contenders in the late 2000s and finally bringing home an NBA Championship in 2011.

With this fixture against Leeds coming at home, the blues will be hoping to snatch a few more points and maybe even a win from the playoff contenders.

Barry Trotz's teams always seemed like playoff contenders, especially over the last decade or so.

Seven more Sundays are left in Philly's regular season, with five games against playoff contenders.

Penn State and USC will both enter next season as playoff contenders, but the winner of this game's stock will be sky high.

Not to worry, four out of their last six games will be against legitimate playoff contenders.

At this stage of the season, barring a crazy run, they're simply no longer playoff contenders.

This season's quiet NBA trade deadline was reportedly one Celtics» first - round pick away from a blockbuster trade that would have severely altered the fates of three NBA playoff contenders, according to Yahoo! Sports» Adrian Wojnarowski.

They've got a dominant defense, but quarterback Blake Bortles is the kind of liability that could prevent them from being serious playoff contenders over the next few seasons.

I'm a big believer in Van Gundy's coaching acumen, but why do I feel like this team isn't truly among the playoff contenders in the East?

A look at the projected 2005 rotations for five of last season's playoff contenders (new starters in red)

Lathrop's strength of schedule was a huge factor in landing the top seed as the Spartans finished fourth in the VOL behind D - 3 playoff contenders Central Catholic, Oakdale, and Manteca.

These teams were supposed to be playoff contenders, but they're currently two of the three worst teams in baseball.

Injuries are suddenly a theme among several of the top playoff contenders, but not just your regular bumps and bruises across the roster.

In no time Stapleton turned the Cougars into playoff contenders.

On Championship Weekend, all six Playoff contenders looked the part.

Will any of the top playoff contenders see their seasons ruined in the worst imaginable fashion?

I do think it is worth footnoting that Atlanta has only played potential playoff contenders to this point (depending on how you look at Philly).

Maybe next year the Lions will be playoff contenders.

In a contest of two NFC playoff contenders, somebody will be feeling good about themselves following this Week 8 showdown.

Texans 2 -0-0 The Texans are showing they are legit playoff contenders, beating Indianapolis week one and coming back from seventeen to beat Washington.

This Friday evening features several great baseball games between playoff contenders, including Nationals / Giants, Orioles / Blue Jays, and Cardinals / Marlins.

In addition to the fact that the Kings more than proved themselves as playoff contenders with their win over the Vancouver Canucks, they got the better of St. Louis in the regular season, winning three of the four games between the two teams.

There are a few playoff contenders that...

Each SEC team misses five opponents, making it less likely SEC Playoff contenders meet.

There are a few playoff contenders that have little room for error.

Week 16 of Liga MX's Clausura boasts matchups between playoff contenders, a home farewell to a Liga MX legend, as well as the age - old Estadio Azul.

With the club seemingly committed to turn the page on those Wooden Spoon seasons and build on 2017's success to turn the Men In Red into consistent winners and playoff contenders, there's just no room for a David Arshakyan in this squad.

And what's more, if this keeps up, Ohio State might have one of the better passing games among the Playoff contenders.

Week 14 of Liga MX's Clausura boasts matchups between playoff contenders, while the relegation race between Veracruz and Lobos heats up.