I also edited a story about Virginia Tech's national-championship chances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desk for the day] Reference

Their father, the late Lee Tressel, was a national-championship coach at Division III Baldwin-Wallace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Tressel: It’s Not Just Luck, Baby] Reference

But as the national-championship race starts to take shape, look for Oklahoma to tighten its grip on the top ranking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast Times in Oklahoma] Reference

(Voters in 2006 prevented Michigan from playing a national-championship rematch with Ohio State under similar circumstances.).    From Wordnik.com.  [College Football's Six Down the Stretch] Reference

Auburn ' s last great team, in 2004, won the SEC and went undefeated but didn ' t get invited to the national-championship game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auburn Pulls Off Implausible Comeback] Reference

Of those 114, schools from the non-automatic-qualifying conferences have received seven berths—none in the national-championship game.    From Wordnik.com.  [DOJ Asked to Probe BCS Under Antitrust Law] Reference

And if all went well, Penn State would even win, preserving their unbeaten record and vaulting them into the national-championship picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The world is not magic] Reference

And the employees of Alabama Reassurance probably haven't been headed anywhere lately -- except to the national-championship game last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [University of Alabama Football: The Rest of the Story] Reference

The second level is for teams that plausibly could've played in the national-championship game but really don't have that great of an argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vengeance for the BCS Victims Society] Reference

Insider's take: "If you look at him as a stock, he was at his highest after the national-championship game, but he's been sliding since then." —.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Injury turns Trojans' White into question mark] Reference

The 65-year-old coach rallied to lead her team to the regional semifinals of the national-championship tournament, "an incredible run for us," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDA Nears Ruling] Reference

Only one market in the entire country had a lower TV rating for last year's BCS national-championship game (New York was 55th, Providence, R.I., was 56th).    From Wordnik.com.  [Will College Football Sell in New York?] Reference

Oregon's date with Auburn University in Monday's national-championship game marks the school's ascension to an exclusive society of college football blue bloods.    From Wordnik.com.  [As National Championship Battle Looms, Oregon Reflects on the 'Toilet Bowl'] Reference

— Decades before the University of Oregon's football team reached this year's national-championship showdown, the Ducks played in a much less auspicious game: the Toilet Bowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [As National Championship Battle Looms, Oregon Reflects on the 'Toilet Bowl'] Reference

"I'd never been to a national-championship game," Williams said.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

University of Michigan's national-championship teams in 1932 and 1933.    From Wordnik.com.  [ESPN Feed: stuart scott] Reference

Members of Iowa's 2010 national-championship wrestling team will travel to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Iowan - Online Edition] Reference

Lueders won the two-man national-championship race with Lumsden last winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ottawa Sun] Reference

The Sooners finished 8-5 after opening the season with national-championship hopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines] Reference

Other than three national-championship games played at neutral-site Chattanooga, Tenn.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The NCAA semifinals will be Nov. 20, and the national-championship game will be Nov. 22.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This is the fifth straight year that the two teams have met in the national-championship game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Oklahoma doesn't plan to be collecting a payoff from her failed national-championship guarantee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Cooper is Florida's lone returning starting receiver from last year's national-championship team.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Courtney Paris will get the chance to back up her national-championship guarantee in the Final Four.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

• 1965, Arkansas completes an unbeaten, national-championship run with a 10-7 victory over Nebraska.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Raiders] Reference

Holland said sales for packages to the national-championship game in Florida have been on the light side, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [azcentral.com | news] Reference

"It's the big stage, our first time playing in a national-championship game," Louisville coach Jeff Walz said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

These programs could line the field with Heisman Trophies, national-championship hardware and individual awards.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

Brown said he talked to Florida coach Urban Meyer about easing the pressure on his players during a national-championship run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsville Herald :] Reference

Such was Alissa Czisny's entree into the world of international figure skating competition, post U.S. national-championship crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Both Florida's Urban Meyer and Oklahoma's Bob Stoops, who will face off in the national-championship game on Jan. 8, grew up in Ohio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog] Reference

The Bearcats (14-1) won their first title since 1998 and ended a string of four consecutive losses in the national-championship game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durangoherald.com] Reference

When unbeaten Penn State lost at Iowa on Saturday, that result effectively removed the Big Ten from the national-championship equation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

"Bear" Bryant, earning two national-championship rings and a Crimson Tide appearance in Alabama's 35-6 thumping of OSU in the Sugar Bowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference

"I do know that Coach Hayes has that ability to raise funds, and that's what you need," said Monroe, who played on WSSU's Division II national-championship team in 1967.    From Wordnik.com. Reference