Sentences with phrase «won national titles»

[She won national titles with UConn in 2000 and» 02.]

He started in the dressing room, where he wanted the players to respect the history of a team that was founded in 1947 and had won national titles in ’03 and» 08.

Three teams have won national titles — LSU is a six - time champion, last in 2009; Cal State Fullerton is a four - time champ, last in 2004; and Oregon State has two titles to its credit, the last in 2007.

The senior won national titles his freshman and senior years, meaning that ultimately, he's a winner; something that can't be taught.

Even though UConn's women's basketball program is the best that's ever existed and the men's team has won national titles, too, they're not going to drastically move the TV needle.

The Huskies made history in 2004 when both the men's and women's basketball teams won the national titles, the first time that occurred in NCAA Division I history.

Both have statues near Bryant - Denny Stadium, having won national titles.

And, oh, by the way, it won the national title with a long touchdown pass in overtime.

The 10 barkeep finalists will recreate their winning Breckenridge Bourbon Punch for a chance to win the national title.

Additionally, Shane was very active competing in the National Agri - Marketing Associations» student marketing competition where his team won the national title in 2017.

Ohio State won the national title that year with a sophomore - laden team: quarterback Rex Kern was a future All - American (he twice finished in the top five of the Heisman voting), defensive tackle Jim Stillwagon would win the Outland Trophy in 1970, and Jack Tatum and Mike Sensibaugh would become one of the best safety duos in college football history.

In year three, Alabama won the national title, and the dynasty was on.

Newton was in Urban Meyer's 2007 recruiting class — one that would add former Texas commit John Brantley — and he may have been sold on the idea that he could compete with Tebow given that he committed long before Tebow's baby rhino impression helped the Gators win the national title in 2006.

Michigan's odds to win national title opened at 15/1.

To hear the last Huskers quarterback to win a national title tell it, Nebraska football has lost its way.

And by Saturday at dinnertime the last of the verbal battles were raging from the Bluegrass Room to the Julep Lounge, from Gordon's Golden Horse to the Bit»n Spur, and even in that rare unequine setting, the Boom Boom Room, as to which team was going to win the national title: defending champion Cincinnati or its hated foe, the squad that has been ranked No. 1 for two straight seasons, Ohio State?

In 2007, there was no single, dominant team — LSU won the national title with two losses over a crowded field of flawed contenders.

The Seminoles have high expectations entering 2017, and have the fourth - highest odds in the country to win the national title at +975.

This game feels, in part, like a referendum: Is Wisconsin good enough to topple college football's Brahmans, or is it capped at only ever being a quiet miracle, good enough to sustain a nearly irreplicable run of success but never win a national title?

Miami whooped No. 10 Notre Dame by 24 points, then took down No. 8 South Carolina (20 - 16) and No. 1 Oklahoma (20 - 14 in the Orange Bowl) to win the national title.

The fourth and final pick, Ohio State, was controversial, but the Buckeyes won the national title.

Kentucky proved last season that you can win a national title with a roster filled with underclassman, providing added significance to the commitment of these top recruits.

His Kentucky team played in a conference championship and won a national title in the city, but he rarely ventured out and Bourbon Street isn't his style.

Two years ago the Cornhuskers lost Frazier for eight games because of blood clots in his right leg and still went 13 - 0 and won the national title.

50,000 Bonus, in dollars, Florida football coach Steve Spurrier will receive from new five - year, $ 5 million contract in any year that the Gators win the national title.

They can still put themselves in position to win a national title if a lot of BCS conference teams lose, but I don't see them being offered a major conference invitation anytime soon.

That game is perhaps the most delicious peak Alabama performance of the Nick Saban era as the Tide took the Irish apart limb from limb from the opening whistle in Miami to win the national title.

She is the second freshman to win the regatta and the first Bear to win a national title since 1968.

A more balanced Pitino team won the national title the following season, but this one grinded its way to a surprise Big East tournament title, then reached the Final Four as a No. 4 seed almost entirely on the strength of its defense.

I knew everything there was to know about my alma mater's football program, from Don Faurot creating the Split - T (and teaching it to future Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson during World War II), to Dan Devine nearly winning a national title in 1960 (damn Kansas beating Ol' Mizzou with an ineligible player), to the big upset wins (and ridiculous upset losses) of the 1970s, to the cratering of the 1980s and the early 1990s, to the Fifth Down, to the Flea Kicker (which I had the honor of seeing in person).

And the team celebrated like it had won the national title.

It is especially true this year, because there is no dominant team, and Michigan State won't have to rely on March magic to win the national title.

Williams led the Terrapins to their first - ever Final Four in 2001, and they won a national title the following season.

From the perspective of S&P + averages, the SEC barely held onto the top spot (which is why this countdown is previewing ACC teams right now and not SEC teams yet), but if you get points for winning the national title, the Heisman, and of course the Piesman, the ACC gets the nod.

Jones, who won the NCAA championship in the 50free for North Carolina State last March, is one of a handful ofAfrican - American males to have won a national title.

@BarackObama, sir, we will save u the time & money of going to the White House after we win the national title, if u come play w / us tmw!

I got to help my former roommate Andrew Lawrence, a Sports Illustrated writer, piece together feature story ideas on the off chance that SI would be making a «Congrats, your team just won the national title!»

«There was this sense that, Hey, we won a national title, and we don't have to work hard.

Then, with the help of some Las Vegas and offshore oddsmakers, I attempted to answer a question: Which group of how many teams would we be comfortable taking to win the national title against the rest of college football?

Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, one of the game's most famous bridesmaids, has groomed a team that should finally win the national title

I asked the oddsmakers for the odds they would give on the super recruiters actually winning the national title.

The symbolism of the Tide winning the national title with a freshman (Tua Tagovailoa) throwing to another freshman (Devonta Smith) suggests the latter, but it's something to watch, especially with Bama's recruiting stranglehold loosening.

They have played each other in each of the past three seasons, and each year the winner has gone on to win the national title.

Now that the 2017 list of teams meeting the BCR standard has been released, let's consult some oddsmakers to get their take on the odds that one of the 10 teams (Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, or USC) wins the national title.

Was it only 11 years ago that Oklahoma won a national title?

Show me a big club with ambitions and I will show you a club who's fans would not accept one manager to stay in charge for such a long time with out ever being close to winning the national title.

It's doable, obviously — no air raid coach has won a national title, after all — but for coaches with harder jobs, being able to define the game is awfully appealing.

Wiltjer, who won a national title at Kentucky in 2012, was nearly perfect, connecting on 10 of 12 shots from the field, including 4 of 6 from behind the three - point line.

Since peaking under Bruce Snyder in the mid-1990s — the Sun Devils went 11 - 1 in 1996 and damn near won the national title, then went 9 - 3 the next year as well — ASU has proved capable of brief, high ceilings.

That's why we came to Duke, to have an opportunity to win a national title.