Sentence examples for split title from inspiring English sources

Oklahoma ended with a record of 13-0, making the issue of a possible split title moot.

The B.C.S., which was created in 1998 to try to match the top two teams in the country in a championship game, was supposed to prevent a split title, which last occurred in 1997 when the coaches awarded their No. 1 ranking to an undefeated Michigan and the news media their title to undefeated Nebraska.

However, after Alabama shut out LSU 21 0 in the BCS National Championship Game, the AP voted them national champions to give the Crimson Tide the consensus national championship and thus avoid a split title with LSU.

"What's wrong with that?" Split titles have occurred before in college football, 11 of them in fact, the most recent in 1997.

The key to Colorado's split-title hopes is for the Buffaloes' defense to play hard.

If Nebraska 11-11) upends Miami (11-0) on Thursday in the Rose Bowl, the designated national championship game, the winner of Oregon-Colorado has a chance to capture the No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press media poll and split the title.

James Lomas, below, George Maguire and Liam Mower, who split the title role in the show by Lee Hall and Elton John, are also the youngest recipients of an Olivier; Mr. Mower is 13 and the others are 15.

Three boys, age 12 to 14, split the title role (played by Jamie Bell, above, in the film), and were said in a report in The Evening Standard to be exhausted by the rehearsals.

Auburn's thin margin of victory over Tech put the prospect of split national title in doubt, though not out of reach.

The last time readers were really split over titles selected by judges was in 2003, when Martin Amis's Yellow Dog and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time were both longlisted for the award and DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little went on to win it.

Does splitting the title benefit shareholders?