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Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 712 in which we have four more games. First, let’s talk about last night. UAB (4-3/96) had a rare 13-point overtime victory over East Carolina (3-3/101). It gets even better. The Blazers were down 17-9 with 9:27 to go in the game. After a turnover on downs followed …
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Welcome back, oh great and wonderful sports fans, to episode 711 which was going to be called “G’s Expectation or Isn’t It Convenient?” as a pun for the episode number. Thankfully, rumors have been spreading about the expansion of the FBS 12-team playoff to 24 teams all day long. Assuming the conferences can hash out …
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Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 710 which is all about Conference USA. Last night, Mid Tenn (3-3/112) evened their record by the Vegas upset win over Delaware (2-4/126), 33-30. The game had 6 lead changes with the final go-ahead score with just 3:06 remaining. Watching this game, the two teams were pretty evenly …
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 709 which is about the two Conference USA games tonight. We’ll get to them, but first we have new realignment news. Or is it a forever continuation of realignment? James Madison announced that they plan to leave the Sun Belt to join the American Conference. At first, it …
Read More “G’s Expectation or The Merry-Go-Round Is Starting Up!”
Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans, to episode 708 or the Top 266 at the midpoint of the season. Yesterday was Upset Saturday with 35 (out of 86) Vegas favorites losing, including 14 who were favored by two scores (8.5 points or more). Here are those 14 in order of biggest point …
Read More “G’s Evaluation or Upset Saturday aka October Football”
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 707 which is all about our second set of five consecutive days of college football. This week was Tuesday-Saturday but Week 1 (not to be confused with Week 0) was Thursday-Monday. This time, instead of one big game (SMU beat Florida St 27-24), we have a full slate …
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 706 which is all about tonight’s seven games. But first, let’s recap last night. Liberty (5-1/39) trounced Sam Houston (1-4/124) as expected. The GCR predicted the win and the cover of the 13.5-point spread – 1-0/1-0. Missouri St (1-4/144) who we predicted would upset W Kentucky (2-4/112) came …
Welcome back, oh great and wonderful sports fans, to episode 705 which is all about the college football games today. First let’s review the two games played last night – a couple of Conference USA matchups. Jax St (4-2/81) edged out Kennesaw St (1-4/139) 27-26 in a game that had eight, yes, eight lead changes. …
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 704, our first midweek games for Conference USA this season. Last night, the Sun Belt took control with Troy (3-2/90) besting Southern Miss (1-4/165) 55-34. The Vegas line was TROY-10.5 which means the GCR starts the week off 1-0 straight up and 1-0 against the spread. This is …
Read More “G’s Expectation or Double Trouble in the (C-)USA”
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 703 which is all about the first mid-week football game of the season. One quick correction from our last episode: while we were correct that Conference-USA will shift to mid-week games (for the most part) this month, tonight’s game is a fairly rare (there’ll be another one in …
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