G’s Expectation or What to Watch in Week 9

Greetings oh great and wonderful sports fans! October snow in the north, wildfires in the west, and hurricanes in the south and east. Covid numbers continuing to climb and too many ugly election contests to count, but there is good news. We get to watch college football this weekend!!! 20 of the GCR top 25 …

G’s Evaluation or College Football Ranking for Week 8

I hope all of you had a great day of football yesterday with 25 new teams playing including the Big 10 and Mountain West conference debuts. Some weird stuff happened in you weren’t paying attention. Rutgers (9), Purdue (19), and Indiana (20) (not recent powerhouses by any stretch of the imagination), upset Michigan St (101), …

G’s Expectation or Welcome Big 10 and Mountain West

Prior to this week, 90 of the 257 Division I teams played at least one game, 6 of whom have 6 games, and 4 have just a single test so far. This week, we will have 50 games!!! Thanks to 25 teams opening their seasons. All 14 Big 10 teams are starting their conference only …

G’s Evaluation or More Shuffling at the Top

What would the 2020 football season be without back to back upset style weekends? Coastal Carolina (then 16) beat then #7 Louisiana. South Carolina (then 39) knocked down Auburn (then 14). Wake Forest (then 45) took out Virginia (then 31). And Florida St (then 59) who struggled with FCS Jacksonville St earlier this year, upended …

G’s Expectation or What to Watch Week 7

Happy Wednesday college football fans. There is a pretty big game tonight so the what to watch is coming a day early. But before we get into that here’s a bit of interesting stuff. In a normal year by the time we get to week 7, we’d expect there to be just a couple of …

G’s Evaluation or College Football Rankings Week 6

What a great weekend of college football – shootouts, blowouts, last minute scores, upsets, critical reviews, bad calls – all we could want in a weekend. Before we get to far into analysis, the GCR went 6-3 or a combined 7-3 season record. Oklahoma (36) bested Texas (38) in 4 OT, Clemson (6) was not …

G’s Expectation or What to Watch in Week 6

It’s Thursday!!!! Only 1 more day (and 2 college games) before Saturday!! What could possibly be more exciting?!?! I’m watching Houston’s debut this year hosting 2-1 Tulane (60). Tulane just went up 14-7 with their second defensive TD of the 1st quarter. I didn’t say 2 good football games before Saturday . Tomorrow is the …

G’s Evaluation or The Initial GCR Rankings

Happy Sunday college football fans and welcome to 2020s first GCR published rankings. How, you may but probably won’t ask, can you publish when some teams haven’t played yet and some have only played 1 game? Well, it all comes down to the shower. No, not TMI at all, it’s just I tend to think …

G’s Expectation or What to Watch This Weekend?

Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans. There are 35 games on the schedule this weekend (less than half a normal year slate), but it’s a new 2020 record so let’s get excited about it!!! Only two games were postponed for this week: Rice at Marshall and Troy at South Alabama (there were 6 …