G’s Expectation or The Games of September 3rd

Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 679 or the games of Day 4 of the season. It’s Thursday, and thanks to a really good friend, Carl L., G will be going to a football game at Georgia Tech for the first time tonight! They will be hosting Colorado (Carl’s home) and will be one …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 266 for Week 0

Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 678. We had 48 more games yesterday to finish up our first week or Week 0 in football lingo. We started in Ireland where a 3rd quarter safety forced TCU to go for it on 4th and 2 on the NCAR 10 (horrible pass failed) because the score …

G’s Expectation or The Games of Day Three!

Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 677 or the final games for Week 0. Last night we had another set of all-FCS games, but today we add some FBS matchups to the mix for the first time this season. That includes a game in Ireland (North Carolina and TCU) and a few neutral site …

G’s Expectation or Day 2 of College Football

Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 676, aka our second day of the season. Yesterday, our first 21 games ran the gamut. The Lafayette/Georgetown game was cancelled due to persistent lightning, of the 8 FCS games versus non-division I (non-D1) games only 5 won, and we had our first overtime game. A few superlatives: …

G’s Expectation or It’s Finally Opening Day!

Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 675, aka the kickoff of the 2026-27 season! It’s been nearly 7 months since we had a college football game putting in a state of withdrawal. Good news: the wait is over. Bad news: we guess because all of the games tonight are FCS games, not a single …

G’s Explanation or A New Season and A New Format

Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 674! Today, the last day before the season begins, is focused on how things will look in this year’s GCR. We learned a great deal during March Madness last spring and will be using that approach. ….. When we first started posting the games of the week a …

G’s Exploration or Let’s Finish This Up

Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 673 which is the summary of our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown as we are but two days away from the first games of the season. If you are just joining us, here’s the good news: everything we talked about (less a few editorial comments) are in …

G’s Exploration or Almost Done, Time for Number One!

Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 672 and our most-challenged conference in our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown. On July 7th in episode 647, we introduced this year’s PS-SOS countdown and started with #25 Pioneer League (PS-SOS of 3.341 and an average team rank of 244.4 out of 266 teams) on July 9th. …

G’s Exploration or Want to Guess Who is Sitting at Number Two?

Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 671 and the penultimate in our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown for all 25 Division I (D1) conferences. We started with the Pioneer League, who plays the overall least-challenging schedule this season and have made it through to number two. With only 7 days left before the …

G’s Exploration or What a Day to Be in Search of Number Three!

Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 670 as we continue to countdown th7.e 25 Division I (D1) conferences from least-challenged to most-challenged using our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) metric. So far, we’ve completed the 14 FCS (non-bowl eligible conferences such as SoCon, Big Sky, Missouri Valley, Ivy, and so on) before moving to …