Sentences with phrase «ranking against the nation»

He proved his ranking against the nation's best competition on Monday.

Alaska's ranking against the nation may improve as a result of the rate decrease, or something much different could happen that remains to be seen.

Not exact matches

What the metrics say: Alabama boasts the nation's No. 2 S&P + Rush Defense, which will be critical against Georgia's No. 8 ranked S&P + Rush Offense.

Alabama boasts the nation's No. 2 S&P + Rush Defense, which will be critical against Georgia's No. 8 ranked S&P + Rush Offense.

Considering this game pits the nation's top ranked defense (Alabama allows just 10.3 points per game) against Manti Te'o and the nation's second - ranked D (allowing 10.7 ppg), that modest total is hardly a surprise.

This causes a false sense of security for bettors and can create excellent value betting against the nation's top ranked teams.

Maryland (7 - 6) could only muster 222 total yards, including just eight yards on the ground against the Cardinal, which came into the game ranked second in the nation in scoring defense (16.0 points per game) and fourth in total yards allowed per game (287).

Going into Friday's game against Pittston the Bulldogs were 9 - 0 and, in this nation of 12,768 football - playing high schools, the team is ranked No. 1 by USA Today.

The kid with the bazooka arm wasn't deemed ready to start against Louisville, Cincinnati or Indiana, but suddenly he was thrown in against the nation's top - ranked team, on the road?

Despite coming off a thrilling 33 - 31 road victory against Eastern Michigan last week, the 6 - 4 Cardinals continue to give up lots of points and find themselves ranked near the bottom of the nation in overall defense.

Barkley has the benefit of playing for the second ranked team in the nation, and playing in the Big Ten East, but if Love can somehow keep up his torrid pace, it would be hard to argue against him come December.

BC, which finished the regular season 29 -8-2 and ranked second in the nation, seemed primed to break that drought after a 4 - 2 victory in Thursday's semifinal against Michigan, to whom it had fallen in overtime in the»98 championship game.

Amat had come into California's Southern Section Division I championship game against Mater Dei High (from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked team in the nation — unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.

Georgia ranks second in the nation in pass yards per attempt allowed (5.6), which should come in handy against an Oklahoma offense that ranks first overall in yards per attempt (12.0) and third in passing yards per game (367.4) yards.

According to supersport.com, one major campaign some loyalists of Hayatou hold against Ahmad is that he is from a weak football nation, Madagascar, who are ranked 39th of 54 African national teams.

Highlighting the stories of area residents who have been directly impacted by past budget cuts, the NYInequality coalition is seeking to persuade local lawmakers to fight back against giving the wealthiest another tax windfall, especially since New York ranks first in the nation for income inequality.

As most Dropout Nation readers already know, the President - Elect, who won his office on a campaign of race - baiting as well as rank demagoguery against both documented and undocumented emigres, named Bannon, his former campaign manager and the former boss of media outlet Breitbart News Network, to serve as his senior counselor and top strategic adviser.

Ten years ago — against all odds — Finland was ranked as the world's top education nation.

Considering last year's average test score ranks Oklahoma at 49th in the nation for Pre-K through 12 - grade education, we can literally hear the chains clanging against the floor as the new arrivals — former students — stroll into Oklahoma prisons.

With its corporate headquarters in Elkhart, Indiana, Patriot Homes remains a family owned business and would rank as the nations 27th largest homebuilder when compared against all builders of single family homes.

Leagues aren't the only new addition in this latest update, Pool Nation FX now features Online Leaderboards, where you can check your global ranking against a number of factors including online wins, cash earned, experience points and more.

The National Mining Association has argued against limiting mercury emissions by stating (34) «Regulations designed to further reduce mercury emissions must not jeopardize the nation's ability to utilize this domestic strategic energy resource and must not disadvantage any specific coal rank in the marketplace.»

Massachusetts is ranked 31st in the nation for drunk driving enforcement by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Based on the fact that 40 percent of all traffic deaths in this state occur in alcohol - related collisions, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) ranks Texas as fourth in the nation as one of the worst states for drinking and driving.

With at least six Florida personal injury lawyers now facing unrelated criminal charges for defrauding auto insurers and the Sunshine State already in the running for this year's # 1 ranking among the nation's Judicial Hellholes, a panel of four federal judges last week imposed nearly $ 9.2 million in sanctions on two Jacksonville - based plaintiffs» firms for their shameless pursuit of more than 1,200 «frivolous and factually baseless lawsuits» against tobacco defendants... → Read More: Two Florida Firms» Fraudulent Tobacco Claims Draw Nearly $ 9.2 Million in Sanctions

Ranked against other states, Arizona's teen pregnancy rate has been among the highest in the nation for many years.

Foreign real estate investors continue to favor the D.C. metro region although the nation's capital fell sharply when ranked against large cities internationally.