G’s Exploration or Let’s Check a Few Things Out Before November

Howdy again, sports fans. A couple of times this season, we’ve explored the conferences – and we will again for the FCS – but the FBS has lots of divisions and they are not created equal. Before we get there, let’s talk about some of the big games yesterday. Michigan (5)/Michigan St (4) was one …

G’s Evaluation or the Week 9 Top 258

Happy Sunday all of you college football fans. I will have another more detailed post later today, but I wanted to get the rankings out. My band (shameless plug: Project Detour Band on all social media) played again last night and I didn’t get in until close to 2:00. I know, there are no excuses …

G’s Expectation or What to Watch Week 9

Howdy all you wonderful college football fans. If you are like me, it’s been a week of Mondays, but today is Thursday and the official start of another great week of college football. After last week’s relatively meh games, this week has a few that really matter. Remember, all the games are predicted at the …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 258 of College Football for Week 8

Greetings to a late version of G’s Evaluation. This weekend was insanely busy even without 115ish college football games and I’m a little behind schedule. Sorry about that. There is a lot to take in. Starting in the FCS, we started this week with 3 undefeated teams in the Ivy League and dropped to just …

G’s Expectation or Is There Anything to Watch This Weekend?

Hello college football fans and welcome to that one week a year that seems like the calm before the (soon to be) November storm. 7 of the GCR top 25 (4 of the top 10) are idle. There is only one game between top 25 opponents (see below). The remaining 16 of that elite group …

G’s Exploration or We Are Long Overdue for a Deep Dive

So, oh wonderful sports fans, I’m back in Columbus again this week and trying to figure out what the upsets and close games mean from this past weekend. I have 3 looks for today. The first one is about the GCR predictions. If you recall, before last week, I retooled (reevaluated the regression for your …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 258 for Week 7

Just…wow, college football fans. I don’t know about you, but I am so tired from the stress of yesterday’s games that I may need to go back to bed after this post. Iowa (8) losing bad at home to Purdue (8), last minute games where the “better” team never led or gave up an early …

G’s Expectation or What to Watch Week 7

And we are back to another wonderful weekend of college football. The week actually started Tuesday when Louisiana (53) beat visiting App St (59) 41-13 in a game of 4-1 teams trying to keep pace with Coastal Carolina (16) in the Sun Belt. Those GCR numbers are pre-game so the Cajuns should rise a few …

G’s Explanation or What Did Week 6 Mean?

So, oh great and wonderful fans, we had a second week of upsets and mayhem that triggered a number of changes. First, each year, I make changes to the prediction algorithm based on the current year’s games. This year, last year’s formula was just getting worse each week – of the 106 games over the …

G’s Evaluation or the Top 258 for Week 6

Good morning all you wonderful college football fans. Many of you were probably watching Texas A&M (45) refusal to bow down to Alabama (11). What a fantastic game on a day of fantastic games! 6 other teams – Penn St (9), BYU (29), Wyoming (36), UC Davis (114), South Dakota St (131), and James Madison …