Moritz doesn't even have a nose guard or hip pads but he's one of the most valuable members of the Longhorn team that will be heavily favored Saturday over Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.

Leading up to the Super Bowl and following the 34 – 0 trouncing of the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship, many were calling the 1968 Colts team one of the " greatest pro football teams of all time " and were favored by 18 points against their counterparts from the American Football League, the New York Jets.

Though they were the road team, the Vikings were actually favored to win the game ( since most considered their 11 – 2 record with Culpepper more indicative than their 0 – 3 record when he was out ).

The Californian team proposed a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, codenamed Duo 101, in line with the British roadster ancestry, but their Japanese counterparts favored the more common front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout or the rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout.

Pittsburgh was heavily favored to win Super Bowl XIV and become the first team to win 4 Super Bowls.

The Packers were favored to win the game by 14 points, largely because many thought the Patriots were a Cinderella team, and because of the recent dominance of the NFC in Super Bowl games.

* The 1980 Winter Olympics are remembered for the Miracle on Ice, where a young United States hockey team defeated the heavily favored Soviet Red Army team and went on to win the gold medal.

His legal team favored releasing the tapes unedited, while Press Secretary Ron Ziegler preferred using an edited version where " expletive deleted " would replace the raw material.

The US team was running behind the heavily favored Germans, but the Germans dropped the baton, allowing Robinson ( who handed off the baton to Helen Stephens ) to win her second Olympic title.

The team repeated as champions in 1995 with a memorable run as the 6th seed in the West and sweeping the heavily favored Orlando Magic led by a young Shaquille O ' Neal and Penny Hardaway.

They won the gold medal, defeating the heavily favored Soviet team and Finland in the medal round.

In the United States, the village is especially remembered as the site of the 1980 USA – USSR hockey game, the so-called " Miracle on Ice ", when a group of American college students and amateurs upset the heavily favored Soviet national ice hockey team 4 – 3 and two days later won the gold medal.

These actions often denote that the favored home team is being outperformed by, or has lost to the much less-favored road team.

This can create the sense of unity in a sports bar as all cheers and boos will appear to be synchronized due to similar feelings and reactions by nearly all fans at the fortunes and misfortunes of the favored team or athlete.

Due to the level of devotion and intensity of feeling towards the favored team or athlete by sports bar patrons, as well as partially due to the alcohol being served, behavior that would be seen as unruly or fanatical outside of a sports bar is generally more common inside of one.

However the record was good enough for 7th in the east and a first round matchup with a heavily favored Ottawa 67 ’ s team who had won the East Division.

The very next season, on a now fabled team known as " The Miracle of Richfield ", and led by team captain Carr, scoring small forward Campy Russell, shooting guard Bobby " Bingo " Smith, and a supporting cast of largely unknown players such as starting center Jim Chones, and an aging Nate Thurmond, Fitch coached the overachieving Cavs to its first winning season, an almost unexpected playoff berth and the Central Division title with a record of 49 – 33, advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals against a heavily favored Boston Celtics team led by future Hall of Famers Dave Cowens, shooting guard John Havlicek, and All-Star point guard Jo Jo White.

In the first round, the Shock were heavily favored against a New York Liberty team that wasn't predicted to make the post season.

After the semifinal game, Baltimore ended up defeating the favored Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Winnipeg Stadium 14 – 12 to become the first ( and only ) American and expansion team to make it to the Grey Cup.

After three non-playoff seasons, the 1964 Browns ' team would finish 10 – 3 – 1 and appear in the 1964 NFL Championship Game against a heavily favored Don Shula coached Baltimore Colts team with Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas as its signal caller.

Still, many favored the Redskins to win the game because of their group of " Over the Hill Gang " veterans, and because Miami had what some considered an easy schedule ( only two Dolphin opponents, Kansas City and the New York Giants posted winning records, and both of those teams were 8-6 ) and had struggled in the playoffs.

Coming into Super Bowl XVIII, the Redskins were favored to win because of their offense, their number one-rated rush – defense, their league best 14 – 2 regular season record, and their Super Bowl win from last season.

Furthermore, in the late 1930s when Hail to the Redskins came into use, the Redskins were the favored team of the South, as at the time they were the southernmost team in the league.

When poll participants were asked their party affiliation, the poll revealed a sharp political divide: 69 percent of Democrats were unqualifiedly in favor of Lend-Lease, whereas only 38 percent of Republicans favored the bill without qualification.

In a poll from the Asia Times before the 2004 U. S. Presidential Election, Korean Americans narrowly favored Republican candidate George W. Bush by a 41 % to 38 % margin over Democrat John Kerry, with the remaining 19 % undecided or voting for other candidates.

Fry got a measure of revenge against Washington, who had defeated Iowa in two of their three trips to the Rose Bowl under Fry, by defeating the heavily favored Huskies, 38 – 18.

In Canada, a poll in 1992 found that 38 % favored general female public toplessness.

In the first leg, Radnički Niš won against the favored North Germans in front of 38, 500 enthusiastic Radnički fans with 2-1, but they clearly lost the second leg in Hamburg by 5-1 ( Hamburg lost at the end the final, but won next year the 1982 – 83 European Cup ).

Clinton decided to remain as Arkansas governor ( following consideration for the potential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton for governor, initially favored – but ultimately vetoed – by the First Lady ).

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

The economy of Germany during the Hitler era ( 1933 – 1945 ) developed a hothouse prosperity, supported with high government subsidies to those sectors that Hitler favored because they gave Nazi Germany military power and economic autarky, that is, economic independence from the global economy.

This practice, due to its illegality, has generally become favored by groups excluded from the political mainstream ( e. g. far-left or far-right groups ) who justify their activity by pointing out that they do not have the money – or sometimes the desire – to buy advertising to get their message across, and that a " ruling class " or " establishment " control the mainstream press, systematically excluding the radical / alternative point of view.

After being asked to leave due to neglecting to take any journalism courses – Jarmusch favored literature and art history – he transferred to Columbia University the following year, with the intention of becoming a poet.

The introduction of universal suffrage for men and women favored the Rechtspartei ( party of the Right ), which played the dominant role in the government throughout the 20th century, with the exception of 1925 – 26 and 1974 – 79, when the two other important parties, the Liberal and the Social-Democratic parties, formed a coalition.

The heavily favored Vikings lost that game to the Kansas City Chiefs, 23 – 7.

In the playoffs, the Vikings rolled past the Arizona Cardinals 41 – 21, and came into the Metrodome heavily favored for their NFC title showdown with the Atlanta Falcons, who had gone 14 – 2 in the regular season.

The heavily favored Rams wilted in the stifling heat, and the Saints claimed their first-ever victory over their NFC West rivals, 24 – 20, on Manning's 1-yard quarterback sneak on the last play of the game.

For example, the discovery by Luis Alvarez and Walter Alvarez of an iridium-rich layer at the Cretaceous – Tertiary boundary made asteroid impact and volcanism the most favored explanations for the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event.

The first Conclave of 1555, following the death of Julius III ( 1550 – 55 ), involved a struggle between French interests in Italy ( which had been favored by Julius III ) and Imperial interests, which were intent on Church reform through a Church council, but with the Emperor controlling the outcome.

The site for constructing the walls and the thickness of the walls in Beijing's Forbidden City were favored by the Chinese Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), because they were in pristine position to resist cannon volley and were built thick enough to withstand attacks from cannon fire.

King Faisal ( 1964 – 1975 ) was a " modernist " who favored economic, technological and governmental progress but was also politically and religiously conservative.