Last season, TCU defeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, the traditional postseason home of the Big Ten and Pac-10's top teams.
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Few of Europe's top teams use the old-school big man up front.
Now that the margins between talent on the game's top teams is so razor thin, the only thing that often distinguishes one team after a 90-minute match with 30 minutes of extra time is what's left of their nerve.
Guardiola's update on his future plans is likely to make uncomfortable reading for those coaches in charge of Europe's top teams, such as Chelsea interim manager Rafa Benitez and Bayern's 67-year-old coach Jupp Heynckes -- whose contract ends in June.
The senior scored a career-high 36 points in his return from a foot injury that had sidelined him since January, helping the third-ranked Blue Devils beat the Hurricanes 79-76 on Saturday night in a matchup of the Atlantic Coast Conference's top teams.
The Bundesliga may lack the catalog of international stars England's Premier League has, and the artistry of Spain's top teams, but if the measure of a league is its ability to produce world-class teams and intense weekly competition, the Bundesliga can't be topped.
But while the Gunners have had a strong start to the season, Kroenke, who owns four U.S. sports teams, hasn't matched the spending sprees of the top Spanish clubs or those of the Russian oligarchs and sheikhs who own several of Europe's other top teams.
None of last season's top three teams will be in action during the first few weeks of the campaign.
The system of polls and computer rankings aims to pair the nation's top two teams in the season's final game.
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New Mexico (37-22), one of the NCAA's top offensive teams, got the tying run to third but Alex Black struck out D.
He played for one of Malta's top football teams, hosts his own TV show and has applied for Eurovision on three previous occasions.
Millward said the prospect of the Super League's top two teams going head to head on Saturday was one which should excite all rugby league fans.
Getzlaf set up Bobby Ryan's tying goal and Selanne's tiebreaker 1:04 apart in the waning minutes, and the Ducks rallied for a 4-2 victory over Chicago in a meeting of the NHL's top two teams.
This time, against one of the league's top offensive teams, the Pacers gave up only six points in the first eight minutes of the quarter, using a 14-2 run to turn a 40-39 halftime deficit into a 66-49 lead with 1:15 left in the quarter.
If this holds true again, that's bad news for four of the top seven teams in the current Associated Press men's basketball poll.
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It's true that the top 20 teams in college football this season include a lot of familiar names: Florida State, Notre Dame, Nebraska and Auburn.
Two clinical finishes from Milito in the 35th and 70th minutes settled an enthralling showdown in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid and left Mourinho as only the third coach to win Europe's top club competition with two teams.
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The Mountain West's five tournament teams were all ranked in the RPI's top 44, a measure that heavily weighs opponents' strength of schedule and which the NCAA uses to help select and seed teams.
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"It's flattering when two of the top teams in the world want you to play for them, " said the 2008 Fifa Player of the Year, who has yet to finalise personal terms with Real.
This season has been marked by the top-flight's leading teams continually dropping points but Terry has cited last term's league title victory as evidence his side can still turn their season, which started so promisingly, back around.
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But with recent victories over all of the other top teams, there's still enough data to go on, and, as usual, the rankings feel pretty much right.
But political wrangling forced more teams into football's top tier than financially belonged, exacerbating the divisions that led the big schools to sue to gain their TV rights.
England's seeding as one of the eight top teams in the competition meant they would always avoid Brazil, Spain, Holland, Italy, Germany and Argentina and South Africa in the group stage.
The top two teams will automatically qualify for the group stage of Europe's top club competition, in which Milan lost in the last 16 to Barcelona this season, while the third must play in the final qualifying round.
The other two teams left in Europe's top club competition also enjoyed victories on Saturday.
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It is AC Milan, one of the top teams from Mr Berlusconi's home town.
Linfield were massive underdogs against Norway's top side but there was little between the teams in a lacklustre opening 45 minutes.
By the 2010 World Cup the U.S. team fielded players drawing top salaries from teams like AC Milan, Everton, and Fulham, as well as quality American clubs like Chivas USA and the Los Angeles Galaxy.
But this year, the level of competition may actually be worthy of the moment: For the first time since the NFL expanded its playoff format in 1990, all eight of the teams in action the 49ers, Broncos, Falcons, Packers, Patriots, Ravens, Seahawks and Texans rank in the top 12 among the NFL's 32 teams in both points scored and points allowed.
Of course, one of last year's Final Four teams is in decent shape: top-ranked, 28-1 Kentucky.
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