1989 ncaa football championship: The 1989 national title went to Miami, the elite team that lost first

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Fixing the 1989 AP College Football Poll

Fixing the 1989 AP College Football Poll

   
           
   
           
       
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1) Miami-Florida 11-1 2) Notre Dame 12-1 3) Florida State 10-2 4) Colorado 11-1 5) Tennessee 11-1 6) Auburn 10-2 7) Michigan 10-2 8) Southern Cal 9-2-1 9) Alabama 10-2 10) Illinois 10-2 11) Nebraska 10-2 12) Clemson 10-2 13) Arkansas 10-2 14) Houston 9-2 15) Penn State 8-3-1 16) Michigan State 8-4 17) Pittsburgh 8-3-1 18) Virginia 10-3 19) Texas Tech 9-3 20) Texas A&M 8-4 21) West Virginia 8-3-1 22) Brigham Young 10-3 23) Washington 8-4 24) Ohio State 8-4 25) Arizona 8-4

To the left is the final 1989 AP college football top 25. The fixed final AP top 25 follows the article below. 11-1 Colorado’s first national championship was delayed by a year when #2 Notre Dame (12-1) beat them 21-6 in the Orange Bowl. As a result, Colorado dropped all the way to 4th, behind Florida State, despite the fact that FSU had 2 losses. Fair or foul? Well, this is one of those cases that flew right over the top of the foul pole. Colorado certainly had the better season overall. Their only loss came to #2 Notre Dame, who is ranked ahead of Florida State anyway, whereas FSU lost to #12 Clemson, and far worse, to 5-6 Southern Miss. Colorado also outperformed Florida State, winning by a slightly higher average margin against rated opponents (both played 4), against winning unrated opponents, and against losing opponents (actually CU’s average scoring margin against losers was more than slightly better than FSU’s, 45-12 compared to 43-20). On the other hand, Florida State’s 2 upset losses came in their first two games, giving them less weight. They finished 10-0, and saved their best for last, destroying #11 Nebraska 41-17 in the Fiesta Bowl. Colorado needed a 4th quarter rally to beat Nebraska 27-21 at home. And FSU also beat #1 Miami 24-10, making up for one of their two upset losses. That game and FSU’s 22-14 win over #6 Auburn give FSU 2 wins over teams who are better than anyone CU defeated. And Colorado was quite unimpressive in their 21-6 bowl loss to Notre Dame. Back on the first hand, Miami was without starting quarterback Craig Erickson when FSU played them (substitute Gino Torretta threw 4 picks). And they struggled to beat unrated Florida 24-17 in their regular season finale, whereas Colorado had no struggles against unrated opponents. Tough case. In the end, I think either team is a valid option for #3, so Florida State can stay where they are.

Florida State finally beat Miami, but unfortunately it came in a year when they suffered upsets in their first 2 games, handing the national championship to Miami. “No doubt about it,” says Sports Illustrated, though there is 100% doubt about their ranking of Southern Cal at #4. Sure am glad I don’t have to fix their top 25… ugh.

Auburn, Alabama, and Tennessee

These three SEC
co-champions defeated each other in a circle. The AP went with
Tennessee as the best of the three since they were 11-1, and the other
two were 10-2, but that’s hardly fair, since Auburn played #3 Florida
State (losing by 8), and Alabama played #1 Miami in the Sugar Bowl
(also losing by 8). So they all had essentially the same record, and
the AP poll, as usual, rewarded the team who played the easiest
schedule. But needless to say, that is a very poor way to rate teams.
So let’s rate them properly.

First of all, we’ll look at their
games against each other. The home team won in each case, Auburn over
Alabama 30-20, Alabama over Tennessee 47-30, and Tennessee over Auburn
21-14. Obviously, Tennessee’s win was the weakest of the three.

Next,
we’ll look at the rest of their games. Other than Alabama and Auburn
playing top 3 teams (and losing close games), the three teams’
schedules were similar (each defeated one rated nonconference
opponent), which is not a surprise, being that they are in the same
conference. So we’ll look at performance. Auburn and Alabama each had 2
close wins over unrated opponents (Auburn over 4-7 LSU 17-14 and 7-5
Florida 10-7, and Alabama over 1-10 Vanderbilt 20-14 and 7-4 Louisiana
24-17), while Tennessee had 4 poor performances, twice as many as the
other two (they beat 5-5-1 Colorado State 17-14, 6-6 Georgia 17-14, 4-7
LSU 45-39, and 1-10 Vanderbilt 17-10, all but the LSU game at home).

So
obviously Tennessee was the weakest of the 3, and since Auburn beat
Alabama in their regular season finale, the teams therefore come out
like so: Auburn > Alabama > Tennessee.

Alabama,
ranked #9 in the final poll, was punished for losing their last 2
games, but those games came against Auburn and Miami, and Alabama’s
8-point loss to #1 Miami in the Sugar Bowl in particular was a very
strong performance, one they should not have been dropped for (#2 Notre
Dame lost to Miami 27-10 in their regular season finale). So we’ll move
Alabama up with Tennessee and LSU.

We’ll put Auburn at #5, Alabama #6, Tennessee #7, and drop Michigan and Southern Cal one spot each.

Illinois

10-2 Illinois
now sits right behind 9-2-1 Southern Cal, a team they defeated on the
road 14-13. USC jumped the Illini in the final rankings because they
upset Big 10 champ Michigan in the Rose Bowl 17-10, and Michigan won at
Illinois 24-10. So like Auburn, Alabama, and Tennessee, these 3 teams
defeated each other in a circle. However, unlike the SEC trio, these
three teams are not equal. USC was tied by 3-7-1 UCLA in their regular
season finale, so they are a half game back of the other two, both in
straight record and relevant record.
You could argue that USC’s win over Michigan should carry more weight
because it was a bowl game, but it was also essentially a home game for
USC, whereas the other two teams won their games on the road, which is
more impressive.

Switch ’em: Illinois #9, Southern Cal #10.

Virginia

10-3 Virginia
was unduly punished for their 31-21 loss to Illinois in the Citrus
Bowl, and dropped several places behind 8-3-1 Penn State, a team the
Cavaliers defeated 14-6 on the road. This is the worst error of this
year’s AP poll, because Virginia had a better straight record than Penn
State, all their losses came to top 12 teams, and Penn State was tied
by 3-7-1 Maryland. There is simply no excuse for it.

We’ll move
Virginia ahead of Penn State and have the teams meet in the middle of
where they are ranked now, placing them behind Michigan State. That
moves Michigan State to #15, Virginia to #16, Penn State to #17, and
Pittsburgh to #18.

Brigham Young

As per usual, we
have a little big team to kick out of the rankings, and as per usual,
that team is Brigham Young, already the most overrated team of all the
polls I have fixed so far. BYU was 10-3 in 1989, which looks nice, but
they lost to unrated 6-5 Washington State, were destroyed 56-14 by
unrated 9-3-1 Hawaii, and of course defeated no rated opponents.

So out goes BYU. Who to replace them with? I nominate 8-4 Duke.

Duke

The
middle-Atlantic region was deeper than usual in good teams in 1989.
10-2 Clemson and 10-3 Virginia finished ranked, but there were a bunch
of good unranked teams from this region too, including 8-4 Duke (beat
#12 Clemson), 6-4-1 Virginia Tech (beat #21 West Virginia), 6-4-1 South
Carolina, 7-5 North Carolina State, and 7-4 Georgia Tech (who also beat
#12 Clemson, won 7 of their last 8 games, and would share the national
championship the next season).

The best of these was Steve
Spurrier’s last Duke team (Florida called him up to the big leagues
after the season). Duke was dropped from the final poll because they
were trounced 49-21 by #19 Texas Tech (9-3) in the All American Bowl.
That is an ugly result, but plenty of teams in the bottom of the poll
had poor bowl performances. #21 West Virginia (8-3-1), for example,
lost their bowl game to #12 Clemson 27-7. And Duke beat Clemson 21-17.
In fact, let’s go ahead and compare Duke and West Virginia further.

Duke
took an upset loss to an unranked opponent (South Carolina), but that
came in their season opener, and it is balanced out by their upset win
over Clemson. West Virginia also took an upset loss (to Virginia Tech),
but unlike Duke, they did not beat a ranked opponent. They did tie #17
Pittsburgh, but that leaves them effectively a half game back of Duke.
Duke also performed better, with only one close win over an unrated
opponent, while West Virginia had 3 such games (including a 14-10 win
over Maryland, a team Duke beat 46-25).

No contest. Let’s bring Duke in ahead of West Virginia, at #21, dropping the Mountaineers to #22.

Fixed AP
Top 25

My own top 25
would look very different from the AP poll. Take Nebraska. They rolled
up huge scores, but played a weak schedule and didn’t beat anyone of
much value, losing to the only 2 rated teams they played (and getting
trounced by FSU in the Fiesta Bowl). Sure, maybe they were the #11
team. Or maybe they were the #25 team. Due to their schedule, we’ll
never know. I’d rank them lower than #11, but the AP poll has a case
here, because #12 Clemson was upset twice, and Nebraska suffered no
upsets.

I would also probably rank 6-4-1 Virginia Tech and 6-4-1
South Carolina, who tied each other and both played deep, strong
schedules. The bottom teams of the AP poll were not very impressive.
#24 Ohio State (8-4), for example, lost to all 4 rated opponents they
played, and did not come within a touchdown in any of those losses. And
they only beat one winning team, edging 6-5 Minnesota 41-37, a very
poor performance. They also struggled to beat losers Indiana 35-31 and
Boston College 34-29. As you can see, their defense was pretty bad this
season. But on the other hand, the Buckeyes did avoid taking an upset
loss, and all 4 rated teams they played were top ten, so there’s little
harm in a #24 team getting slapped around in those games. It’s
impossible to know for sure how good or bad Ohio State was, since they
played no teams that would rank between #11 and #40. Maybe they were
better than Virginia Tech and South Carolina, maybe not. But I’ll give
AP voters the benefit of the doubt here.

So that’s it. A very
good year for AP voters, with just a few fixes, and only one team
falling out, 10-3 Brigham Young. Interestingly, this is the second poll
in a row when I’ve had to kick out a 10-3 BYU team that was ranked #22 (1990
being the last poll I fixed). Brigham Young had 2 losses to unranked
opponents and no wins over rated teams. Their replacement, Duke, had
but 1 loss to an unrated opponent and 1 win over a rated team. Yet
another win for the fixed poll.

OUT: #22 Brigham Young 10-3

 

Fixed AP Polls
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Spartak acquires rights to Nick Baylen

In exchange for Alexander Bryntsev to Traktor

• December 15, 2022

Hockey club “Spartak” Moscow made a deal with the Chelyabinsk “Tractor”. In exchange for the defender Alexander Bryntsev in Traktor, Spartak receives sports rights for the defender of the Belarusian national team Nick Baylen. Bailen, 33, was named the best defender of the last KHL-2021/22 season, becoming the leader among defense players in points and assists (10+40 in 64 games). This season, the two-time KHL bronze medalist and two-time KHL All-Star player scored 22 (8+14) points in 26 games for Cologne in the German championship. HC “Spartak” Moscow thanks Alexander Bryntsev for his performances in the club and wishes him success in his future career!

Nick Baylen (12/12/1989, Fredonia, USA)

Defender. Height – 174 cm. Weight – 81 kg. Grip is right.

Playing career:

2006 – 2010 – Indiana Ice, US Junior Hockey League (USHL)

2008 – 2009 – Bowling Green, US Collegiate League (NCAA)

2010 – 2013 – Ar. Pi. Ai, US Collegiate League (NCAA)

2013 – Rochester Americans AHL

2013 – 2014 – Tappara Finland

2014 – 2016 – Dynamo Minsk, Belarus KHL

2016 – 2017 – Växö Sweden

2017 – 2022 – Traktor Chelyabinsk KHL

2022 – Cologne Germany

Total in the KHL – 412 games, 255 points (78 goals + 177 assists), 6th among the most productive defenders in the history of the KHL

Achievements:

2010 – US Junior Hockey League (USHL) All-Star Game

2011 – NCAA First All-Star Team

2013 – NCAA First All-Star Team

2014 – silver medalist of the Finnish championship, the best defender-scorer of the playoffs, the all-star team of the Finnish championship, a participant in the German Cup as part of the US team

2015 – participant in the KHL All-Star Game, the best defender of the month in the KHL

2018 – KHL Playoffs Best Defensive Sniper, KHL Defender of the Week and Month

2019 – silver medalist of the World Championship of the first division in the national team of Belarus

2020 – participant in the KHL All-Star Game

2021 – participant of the World Cup as part of the Belarusian national team

2022 – the best defender of the KHL season, the best assistant and scorer of the season among the defenders of the KHL

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Murray, Bruce (footballer) | it’s.

.. What is Murray, Bruce (football player)?

Wikipedia has articles about other people with this last name, see Murray.

Bruce Edward Murray (eng. Bruce Edward Murray ; January 25, 1966; Germantown, Maryland) is an American football player, forward who, at the time of his retirement from football, was the all-time leading scorer for the US national team. For this achievement, Football America magazine named him to the emblematic college team of the century. He managed to play professionally in Europe and the USA – the American Football League and the American Professional Football League. Before retiring from the sport, Murray played 86 caps for the national team, scoring 21 times, including 19 at the World Cup.90. In 1989, he was part of the US team at the futsal world championship, which took third place. Bruce Murray is inducted into the US National Football Hall of Fame.

Career

School and University

Murray grew up and attended a local school in Maryland. Playing for the school team, he won national championships in the age group under 16 years old and in 1983 under 19 years old.

After graduating from high school, he entered Clemson University, where he played for the university’s men’s team from 1984-1987 as a striker. In 1984, the university took first place in the First Division of the NCAA football championship, defeating Indiana with a score of 2-1. In 1987, he won the trophy again, defeating San Diego in the final match. During the season, he scored 40 goals and gave 40 assists. For these achievements, he was named NCAA Player of the Season. At 1993, Murray was inducted into the Clemson Hall of Fame.

Club career

In 1988, Murray signed with the Washington Stars, who played in the American Football League. The club finished third this season. Although the rights to the player belonged to Washington, he spent the next two seasons in Switzerland, playing for Lucerne. In 1990, the AFL merged with the Western Football League and became the American Professional Football League. The team performed unsuccessfully and Murray moved to the Maryland Bays, where he played 9matches, scoring 2 goals.

Having signed an agreement with the US Football Federation, which provided for his permanent presence in the team, Murray did not play for any clubs for some time. On July 30, 1993, the US Football Federation released him from his duties and allowed him to continue his career in Europe. Murray moved to England to play for Millwall.

On August 9, 1993, he signed a contract with the club and managed to score in his first match, which ended in a 2-1 victory over Stoke City. But he failed to play at Millwall. He was sent on loan to Stockport County. October 12 19For 94 years, the club relieved Murray of his duties.

Back in the US, Murray signed with the Atlanta Silverbacks.

At the end of 1995, due to a knee injury, he announced his retirement as a player.

National team

Murray played his first match for the national team on June 16, 1985 in Los Angeles, the year the United States lost to England with a score of 5-0. He scored his first goal on February 7, 1986 in a match with Uruguay. Murray was on the team at both the 1988 Olympics and World Cup 1990, which the Americans made their way for the first time since 1950.

In total, Murray played 86 matches for the US national team, in which he managed to score 21 times.

Murray also played for the US futsal team, for which he played 6 matches, scoring 1 goal.

Further Fate

On September 17, 2004, Harvard University announced that Murray had been hired as the assistant head coach of the men’s football team.

On March 20, 2011, Murray was inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame.