Word: underdog
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Year after year, the award categories are populated with consistent archetypes: the underdog, the obvious filler, the perhaps-not-particularly-deserving-this-year-but-boy-is-it-about-time-she-won-already. The winner selection process, intrinsically tainted by Academy politics, is anything but quantitative—statistically, even the most impulsive civilian guesser is likely to make at least one correct prediction. This lends a satisfying, authoritative feel to one’s preferences regarding, for instance, Meryl Streep—who should be given an Oscar every year, by default, just to thank her for being Meryl Streep?...
...Brown is athletic and scrappy, and they’re that underdog with nothing to lose,” said Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. “They’re deep, they’re young, they’re athletic, and they play really hard. It’s a tough matchup for us because they’re stronger than their record shows...
...long as the team keeps improving, its underdog status might prove attractive to recruits looking to make an impact. It’s not really fair to make the “any smart athlete would choose Harvard for its academics” argument when strong institutions such as Dartmouth and Williams sit above them in the standings, but an academic reputation certainly can’t hurt either...
...Credit Brown for how scrappy they were, they played the underdog role well,” Delaney-Smith said. “[They played with] nothing to lose...They are deep—just [kept] putting waves of people...
...problem is that, so far this season, no team has embraced the role of the underdog. Week after week, the favorites win big, stomping their weaker opponents like Edward Norton in American History...