Definitions
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- noun American football A college not affiliated with a
conference whose football champion has an automatic bid to the Bowl Championship Series - noun US, basketball A
conference that is not amajor conference
Etymologies
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Examples
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NEW ORLEANS - More often than not, when teams from so-called midmajor conferences face a reckoning in Bowl Championship Series games, they prove their brand of football is not so inferior.
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He was pegged to be a midmajor basketball player until he decided to join the Orange.
Syracuse's Odd Recruiting Ground: N.Y.C. Kevin Clark 2011
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CREDIT: Associated Press Butler Is the Latest to Star as Cinderella Butler became the latest midmajor to knock off a top seed in the NCAA tournament.
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CREDIT: Associated Press Butler Is the Latest to Star as Cinderella Butler became the latest midmajor to knock off a top seed in the NCAA tournament.
Butler Is the Latest to Star as Cinderella Jim Chairusmi 2010
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CREDIT: Associated Press Butler Is the Latest to Star as Cinderella Butler became the latest midmajor to knock off a top seed in the NCAA tournament.
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Mr. Anderson of Missouri, who was an assistant on coach Nolan Richardson's 1994 national-title team at Arkansas, says that these days, top high-school players are fanning out across the country to attend college — not just to North Carolina or Duke but to midmajor schools that have gained national attention.
College Ball's Talent Deficit (and Why It Doesn't Matter) Jonah Keri 2010
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Put a midmajor in an exhibition game and no one watches.
What’s the Best Playoff System For College Football? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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The UNM Lobos played in the Mountain West Conference, a newly formed “midmajor” conference that was smaller but still had as members some traditionally strong football schools such as Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.
Still Kicking Katie Hnida 2006
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As for interval training, again, I was a competitive long distance runner though admittedly, not a good one at a midmajor college program in the early 1990s.
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study 2005
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The latest twist came Thursday night when the last undefeated major team, Murray State, lost to Tennessee State, which means it will plummet from the top 10 and back into the usual midmajor scramble for an N.C.A.A. tournament berth, writes Andy Katz on ESPN.com.
NYT > Home Page By LYNN ZINSER 2012
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