Sentences with phrase «title in a playoff game»

Under Hickey, the 49erssubsided after one lone year near the top — they tied Detroit for the WesternConference lead in 1957 but lost the title in a playoff game — to the bottom ofthe Western Division and stayed there two more years under his successor, JackChristiansen.

Not exact matches

For Team Bollier, their second playoff journey as a unit in the All Sports Series Hoops League, finished with a trip to the title game.

They have clinched the Regular Season Title and # 1 Seed in the All Sports Series Playoffs with Regular Season games still left to play.

With wins over Oklahoma State and TCU in back - to - back weeks, Oklahoma's résumé is sparkly, and its path to the Playoff is clear: beat Kansas on Saturday (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN), and you'll clinch a spot in the Big 12 title game.

While the 2006 loss kept the Sooners out of the running for the national title game, the»08 and»15 Sooners both made the title game / Playoff, each time losing in the Orange Bowl to a team with orange helmets quarterbacked by a dual - threat star (Florida's Tim Tebow and Clemson's Deshaun Watson).

FOOTBALL — Quarterback - rich New York Giants used four signal - callers in replay of last winter's title playoff game with Baltimore at Dallas, but Colts needed just one — a fellow by the name of Johnny Unitas — to cut the Giants down to size.

Additionally, there is a decent chance that if any of the teams from the remaining field do make the College Football Playoff, their odds to win the two games needed to capture the title would be in excess of +500, which itself is higher than either of the field odds represented above.

The Chargers trounced the Buffalo Bills 54 - 24 in a game the Chargers hope sets a six - game sprint to not only the wildcard playoffs but possibly an AFC West division title, especially with the Chiefs, Raiders, and Broncos all losing on Sunday.

# 13 Florida at # 15 FSU (Saturday 8:00 pm ET) As we've mentioned all season, Florida has exceeded expectations and continues to win, and they'll face Alabama in the SEC Title Game with a chance to make the NCAAF Playoffs — But first they'll take on bitter rivals FSU on the road.

A week later, the Ducks won the Pac - 12 title game and clinched a spot in the inaugural College Football Playoff.

After Barrett got hurt in the last game of OSU's regular season and watched from the sidelines while Cardale Jones won the Big Ten title game and College Football Playoff, he could've been a backup again.

Currently 1.5 - games behind the 8th place Heat in the playoffs standings, the Celtics title odds (+75,000) and conference odds (+27,500) both remain unchanged.

With the college football playoff incoming, more than a half - dozen cities are looking to host the title game in 2016 and 2017.

Alabama will face Florida in the SEC Title Game again, while Clemson and Washington look to win their conference title games and lock up a playoff bTitle Game again, while Clemson and Washington look to win their conference title games and lock up a playoff btitle games and lock up a playoff berth.

Not only does NU need to win to keep faint Playoff hopes alive, Ohio State might need to beat an 11 - 1, top - 10 Nebraska team in the Big Ten title game to have a shot.

As Week 1 of the 2017 season arrives, we're getting a head start on that speculation game before most teams have a chance to bury their national title hopes, sketching out a first look at how all 39 bowl games will shake out leading up to the College Football Playoff title game on Jan. 8 in Atlanta.

Alabama was fortunate enough to qualify into the playoff despite not playing in the SEC title game, while Ohio State beat undefeated Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game but was left out.

- Iowa on the other hand, IS in the Big Ten title game and a win would get them into the CFB Playoff.

THE FAVORITE: Bear River - Grass Valley (8 - 2)-- The Pioneer Valley League runner - up has not won a playoff game since 2005 (the Bruins have lost their last 6 postseason games), but the division is wide open for them to make a run at the second section title in the program's history.

In the past, the PGA Tour has tried to dodge the NFL playoffs altogether and push this to a Monday finish right before the college title game kicked off back on the mainland.

The first FBS title game using the playoff format will be held in 2015, and there are six cities currently being considered to host that game.

Before Miller's dad, John, retired from Blackhawk High in 2005 after 36 years, 657 wins and eight 3A titles at two high schools, he and McConnell's dad, Tim, who has 471 victories in 21 years as the coach at 3A Chartiers Valley in Bridgeville, clashed half a dozen times in regular - season games and district playoffs.

The Hillmen roared back to the playoffs in 2015 and reached the semifinals at 12 - 0, but perhaps the best Central Catholic team in program history won that game and three more to finish a 16 - 0 season and state title run.

«You go out and try to win a league title to control home field in the playoffs, but none of that matters if you lose your last game.»

Undefeated Wisconsin is now the conference's last best hope for a playoff spot, failing mass chaos in other conferences in the final four weeks — but if the Badgers stumble in the Big Ten title game against a multi-loss East champion looking for one last handful of style points (assuming they survive a visit from Michigan later this month), their résumé likely won't hold up against the other one - loss teams under consideration.

It's even higher if you include all games in the entire season (SEC title game, CFB Playoff): Alabama is favored by 329.5 points against their opponents.

Based on last season's turn of events at the end of the season (Ohio State destroying Wisconsin in the Big Ten Title Game), it's possibly the committee could select the Big Ten winner for the CFB playoff this year, too.

Beat the No. 1 team twice in three weeks and then win the SEC title game, and the playoff committee would have no choice but to break precedent.

The only reason the title game isn't No. 1 is because a week before, in Pasadena, Georgia played in another Playoff game of plot twists.

If those two lose in the playoffs «'' and remember that teams have to win a section title to be eligible for a CIF bowl game «'' then that opens the door for others.

While both College Football Semifinal Playoff games were close at halftime, Alabama and Clemson dominated Michigan State and Oklahoma respectively in the second half en route to the title game.

We've never seen two teams from the same conference in the College Football Playoff, but if both Georgia and Alabama are undefeated heading into an SEC title game, it'll be hard for the committee to leave one of them out, regardless of the winner.

The Wolverines, currently at No. 5 in the CFB Playoff rankings, likely need Colorado to defeat Washington in the Pac 12 Championship game or Virginia Tech to upset Clemson in the ACC Title.

St. Francis (which won the Section title in 2011) is in our league and had to win its last game just to make the playoffs, so every league game is huge.

This game will essentially decide who gets to play in the ACC title game, and an undefeated Clemson still has their eyes set on a College Football Playoff berth.

Win the East, and many doors open, including a berth in the Big Ten title game and a potential spot in the College Football Playoff.

Sunday's game in Estadio Olimpico Universitario offers Pumas an opportunity to reassert their playoff hopes, and perhaps their title credentials, following a 4 - 1 loss to Tijuana last weekend and a 2 - 1 defeat to Veracruz the weekend before.

In the AFC title game he set a Patriots record for most receiving yards in a playoff gamIn the AFC title game he set a Patriots record for most receiving yards in a playoff gamin a playoff game.

Fisher helped Oregon reach the inaugural College Football Playoff title game and became a second - round pick by the Bengals in 2015.

Nowadays, AAA games get all the big ads — whether during the NBA Playoffs or in - between trailers at the movie theaters — while smaller, lesser known titles often go unnoticed, slipping anonymously into the growing back - catalog of games on any respective platform.