Unlike other college football divisions and most other sports — collegiateor professional — the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A college football, does not employ a playoff system to determine a champion.

Unlike the 1976 – 79 Montreal Canadiens, who needed to win three series in the 1976 and 1977 playoffs under the playoff format in place at that time, the Islanders had to win four series in each of their Stanley Cup seasons.

Unlike the previous year, however, the Bulls ' playoff run was shorter and less dramatic as they were eliminated by the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games.

Unlike England, the Italian playoff final is two-legged, again with the higher finisher earning home advantage in the second leg.

Unlike their disappointing 2011 campaign, the SaberCats were able to clinch a playoff spot as the # 3 seed, finishing the regular season with a 12-6 record.

Unlike the other two titles, World Trophy Soccer was more an arcade game than a serious attempt on simulating the sport: it only had seven players aside, the game only lasted for one half and it followed a fixed playoff tree where the player had to beat all opponents.

Unlike the d20 System and many other game systems, experience awards are in the form of character points, which have the same value as those used in character creation and can be applied directly to the character's abilities upon receipt.

Unlike the stereotypical dumb blonde, she has an above-average IQ ; she is very intelligent and has won many awards.

Unlike in previous Mario games, coins are not used to get lives ; instead, they are used to play games in a special area that awards lives and other power-ups.

All the seniors are felicitated with souvenirs and superlatives are given awards. Unlike countries like USA and Canada there wouldn't be couple dances in India. Students consider Indian farewell system as traditional, ethnic and heart touching system which shows the values of Indian culture compared to other countries.

Unlike most annual awards, the distinction did not take into account players ' performances in the prior year, but their contributions on a career-basis.

Unlike that town, Killingworth's planners adopted a radical approach to town centre design, resulting in a development of relatively high-rise buildings in an avant-garde and brutalist style, and won awards for architecture, dynamic industry and attractive environment.

Unlike other awards, such as the Grammy Award, which determine nominations as a result of the highest votes received, the Billboard Music Awards finalists are based on United States year-end chart performance according to Nielsen data for sales, number of downloads and total airplay.

Unlike awards, which provide similar standards for all workers in the entire industry covered by a specific award, collective agreements usually apply only to workers for one employer-although on occasion a short-term collaborative agreement ( for example, on a building-site ) yields a multi-employer / employee agreement.

Unlike the Wisden Cricketer of the Year awards, the distinction of Leading Cricketer of the World can be given to the same player more than once.

Unlike other schools in the Australian Capital Territory, Canberra Grammar School awards the New South Wales Higher School Certificate ( HSC ) to its Year 12 students.

Unlike the three more senior professional development awards in the Civil Air Patrol senior program, this award is not named after an aviation pioneer or notable person associated with the CAP.

Unlike most literary awards, which are named for the creator of the award, the subject of the award, or a noted member of the field, the Rhyslings are named for a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story The Green Hills of Earth.

Unlike other awards which are voted on by the Academy's board of directors, the recipient of the John Drainie Award is selected by a committee of previous winners.

Unlike many journalism awards, it is open to both writers and editors.

Unlike the Soviet awards, Ukrainian law allows a person to receive a title in each distinction only once, although the person may receive both levels in due course.

Unlike its predecessor which won numerous awards, Prinsessor, was met with mixed reviews from Swedish critics, who saw the album as far too sprawling and sensed a loss of her " uniqueness ".

Unlike other law enforcement agencies, the APS had limited internal honors and awards, the most coveted being the Australian Protective Service Directors Award handed out by the head of the Agency the APS Director.

Unlike in West, not all of the Hindu population migrated to India, instead a large number of Hindu population was in fact presented in the state.

Unlike the problems with transliteration that were encountered with Belldandy ( resulting in Verdandi becoming " Belldandy " in the manga ), " Skuld " presented no difficulties for translators.

Unlike their ancestor Poseidon who is always fully anthropomorphic in ancient art ( this has only changed in modern popular culture ), Tritons ' lower half is that of a fish, while the top half is presented in a human figure.

" Unlike most crime-solving magicians, Mandrake is sometimes presented as having actual magical powers.

Unlike other Academy Awards, the Best Foreign Language Film Award is not presented to a specific individual.

Unlike a ( monocular ) telescope, binoculars give users a three-dimensional image: for nearer objects the two views, presented to each of the viewer's eyes from slightly different viewpoints, produce a merged view with an impression of depth.

Unlike many stars who simply greeted audiences with a few words before the screening of their film, Morris was comfortable on stage and presented an entire vaudeville magic act, featuring live animals and larger stage feats such as nearly severing an audience volunteer's head in a prop guillotine.

Unlike conventional T cells that recognize peptide antigens presented by major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) molecules, NKT cells recognize glycolipid antigen presented by a molecule called CD1d.

Unlike The Silmarillion, for which the narrative fragments were modified to connect into a consistent and coherent work, the Unfinished Tales are presented as Tolkien left them, with little more than names changed ( the author having had a confusing habit of trying out different names for a character while writing a draft ).

Unlike most voting systems, it requires that only negative measures or choices be presented to the voter or representative.

Unlike the classical methods, where the pattern for changing the stimuli is preset, in adaptive methods the subject's response to the previous stimuli determines the level at which a subsequent stimulus is presented.

Unlike the simpler single-line laser scanners, they produce a pattern of beams in varying orientations allowing them to read barcodes presented to it at different angles.

Unlike the book, in which the hosts of Mordor are dazzled by the light of the rising sun reflecting off the armor of the Rohirrim charging from the west, the movie has the Rohirrim backlit by the sun, inconsistent with the geography of the situation as presented by Tolkien.

Unlike its predecessor Gustav Siegfried Eins the programmes were live from the purpose built broadcast studio at Milton Bryan in Bedfordshire and presented by Agnes Bernelle using the codename " Vicky ".

Unlike previous albums, the title of the album comes from the name of a song ( rather than a song lyric ), and is a play on the French phrase " trompe l ' oeil "— a painting technique in which the painter fools the viewer into thinking objects presented are real.

Unlike GUI-based application software, the GRASS user is presented with a UNIX shell containing a modified environment that supports the execution of GRASS commands ( known as modules ).

Unlike other opening ceremonies of previous games, Kuala Lumpur presented an artistic vehicle parade and breathtaking theatrics in their field performance.

Unlike many of the female impersonation acts that existed at that time, like Bert Savoy or George Fortesque, Eltinge did not present a caricature of women but presented the illusion of actually being a woman.

Unlike Maslow, who offered little data to support his ideas, Herzberg and others have presented considerable empirical evidence to confirm the motivation-hygiene theory, although their work has been criticized on methodological grounds.

Unlike the first series, which is 16: 9 widescreen, the second series is presented in 4: 3 to emulate the television format used in the 1980s.

Unlike the early versions, the LTS performed all weapon release calculations and presented release cues that it had generated to the aircrew.

Unlike the Windows versions, which are meant to illustrate the Multiple document interface, one can place groups or icons in a group, the groups in OS / 2 were presented in a list.

Unlike in languages with a general imperfective, in English the simple past tense can be used for situations presented as ongoing, such as " The rain beat down continuously through the night ".