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Welcome to the newest episode of the GCR (#405 in the series, if you are counting). It’s roughly the midway point of the season (most teams have played 6 games), so it’s a good idea to start thinking through the playoffs, both FBS and FCS. ….. Let’s start with the 12-team FBS playoff. The format …
Welcome back, college football fans. It was another fantastic week with 5 days of college football. Check back tonight or tomorrow for the next episode of G’s Explanation where we’ll deep dive into the playoffs. ….. For now, congratulations to the winner and condolences to the losers. There are now 9 bowl-eligible FBS teams (must …
Welcome to a brand-new week of college football! Liberty (4-0/31) and FIU (2-3/104) kicked off at 7:00 (all times Eastern) just about 18 minutes ago. Liberty is already up 3-0 with 7:10 to go in the first quarter, but more importantly, it’s the first of 46 consecutive days of either college or pro football. What …
Welcome to the latest episode of the GCR and a dive into last week vs this week in our very own top 25. Before we do that though, I would like to extend congratulations to the first 2 bowl-eligible teams this season: Indiana (6-0/3) and Miami FL (6-0/5). Miami, by the way, was down 25 …
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Happy Sunday, college football fans, and welcome to the latest GCR Top 263. It was a crazy week with 8 teams losing for the first time. The SEC was hit hardest with Alabama (4-1/22), Tennessee (4-1/13), and Missouri (4-1/25) all losing conference games. Joining them were Duke (5-1/24) of the ACC, Rutgers (4-1/23) of the …
Welcome back to the last traditional college football week until late November. Next week, Conference USA will start playing Tuesday and Wednesday games for the rest of October and, of course, November brings in MACNation mid-week games. That means there will a college or pro game every day until Wednesday November 27th starting next Tuesday: …
Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans! It’s hard to believe but the first month of college football is over! I’ll give you a moment. Ok, but it’s time to look at a couple of different cuts of the data. There are 3 looks I’d like to chat about. ….. First, of the …
Welcome back, college football fans, as we see what havoc the craziness from this week wreaked on the GCR. The very top with Texas (5-0/1) and very bottom with St Thomas (1-3/263) stayed the same but a series of unexpected events stirred up everybody else. Miami FL (5-0/8) edged out Virginia Tech (2-3/64) on a …
Welcome back, college football fans, and welcome to this week’s addition of who wins and who whines. First, some news, the Pac (1)2 poached Utah St from the Mountain West to move their total for next season to 7. The MWC has dipped to 7 next year which puts both under the 8 required. This …
Wow! What a series of games. Thursday night saw a road upset of epic proportions when South Alabama (2-2/108) opened the Sun Belt season with a 48-14 beat down at App St (2-2/120). Friday’s three games were won by a combined 11 points and included 2 contests go into overtime. On Saturday we saw James …
