Lions Season Win Totals
The Detroit Lions went 7-9 last season and lost the final four games of the season. They should have made it into the playoffs, but they collapsed and couldn’t hang on to win the weak NFC North.
The Detroit Lions went 7-9 last season and lost the final four games of the season. They should have made it into the playoffs, but they collapsed and couldn’t hang on to win the weak NFC North.
The Toledo program has been pretty good during the two years under Matt Campbell. Last year things were lookin very promising as they lined up rival Northern Illinois at home bu they couldn’t get the job done, ultimately falling to 7-5 and not being selected for a bowl game.
The Chippewas are looking to use this season to agin some ground on the likes of Northern Illinois in the MAC. It is not all that long ago that they were the top programm in the league using the running and passing of Dan Lefevour to not only win in the league but also scare the bigger programs that dot their schedule.
Eastern Michigan had no choice but to end the Ron English. This time they are going a different route grabbing a big time winner from a lower level instead of a hot coordinator from a Major program.
Belichick and Co. set their sights on a sixth-straight division title
You have to go all the way back to the 2000 season to find the last time New England posted a losing record (5-11) and was out of the division title race. That was Bill Belichick’s first year as head coach and since that point his teams have won the AFC East in 11 of the next 13 seasons.
2014 NFC East – Chip Kelly’s high-flying Eagles poised to soar to even greater heights in 2014
The betting odds remain tight to win the NFC East this season for all four teams, but the clear edge lies with Philadelphia repeating as champions after winning the division last year at 10-6.
The Tennessee Titans will usher in a new era in 2014 – the Ken Whisenhunt era! Whisenhunt replaces head Coach Mike Munchak who failed to turn this organization around in his three years in Tennessee, guiding the team to a 7-9 record last year and a 6-10 record the year before.
The Sun Belt Conference is led by the Louisiana Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns. They shared the Sun Belt Conference title a year ago, but they were well on their way to winning it outright when star quarterback Terrance Broadway went down with an injury.
South Alabama just became an FBS football program in 2012. The Jaguars went 2-11 that year. South Alabama was a dominant FCS program, but the transition to FBS started rocky, as one would expect. It hasn’t taken long though.
Arkansas State has won or tied for the Sun Belt Conference title in three straight seasons. They have also lost three straight very good head coaches at the end of those seasons. First it was Hugh Freeze who left for Mississsippi.
The second weekend in the English Premier League features a few intriguing match-ups for both footy fans and sports betters alike.
The winless St. Louis Rams will travel to Cleveland to square off against the Browns in a preseason game on Saturday as FirstEnergy Stadium.
The Angels arrive in Oakland with the best record in baseball and will take on the A’s in the first game of a three-game series on Friday.
The “Snoopy Bowl” is on Friday night between the New York Giants (3-0) and New York Jets (2-0). The Jets won the game last year (24-21 in OT) and you can bet that both teams will want to win this game.
NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series makes an anticipated return to prime time racing with this week’s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
A pair of teams sporting 1-1 records will square off at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta this Saturday when the Tennessee Titans pay a visit to the Atlanta Falcons in week three of the NFL preseason.