G’s Exploration or Let’s Rank the FCS Conferences

Welcome back to championship week (or round 2 of the FCS playoffs). Yesterday we ranked the FBS conferences and now it’s time to do the same for the FCS brethren. It’s not as complicated as yesterday and no ranting and raving like a lunatic today. In fact, the rank is simply based on the average …

G’s Exploration or Which Are the Best FBS Conferences?

Welcome back college football fans! Since the regular season is at an end, it’s time for some reflection. Today, we are going to explore the FBS conferences in a little compare and contrast mode: aka, why Tulane shouldn’t get a NYE bowl, but they will anyway. Tomorrow, we’ll look at the FCS conferences as week …

G’s Exploration or the 2023 Final Regular Season Top 261

Welcome back, sports fans. There’s a lot to unpack this week so expect some additional posts later on. Today is simply about the rankings. Rivalry week did not disappoint with closer than expected games, last-minute victories, huge upsets, and just plain old good football. ….. If the playoffs started today, and the GCR had the …

G’s Expectation or Who Wins Rivalry Week?

Happy Tuesday sports fans for the last MACNation week of 2023. I’ll wait while you grab some tissue. This season has been a grind. The FCS is done except for a couple of games in the SWAC conference and the first round of the playoffs (more to come on that). ….. Last week, the GCR …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 After Week 12

Once again, we had a great weekend of college football. Shout out to the state of New Mexico who had both programs win upsets on the road, with both teams being 20+ point underdogs. New Mexico St (9-3/43) trounced Auburn (6-5/48) 31-10. Then New Mexico followed that up by edging Fresno St 25-17. Enchanting day …

G’s Expectation or Who Wins in Week 12?

Happy Week 12, oh great and wonderful college football fans. This week we see the last regular season games for the FCS, except for a couple from the SWAC next week. And we have our last games before rivalry week! Last week, the old GCR had some good and bad predictions for sure, like picking …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 for Week 11

Welcome back after another great week of upsets, close calls, unexpected routs, and the general chaos that is College Football in November. There is an FCS game being played this afternoon between Alcorn St and Texas Southern of the SWAC which means that game is not included in these rankings but will merge into next …

G’s Expectation or Who Keeps Their Zero?

Welcome to week 11, college football fans. I cannot believe there are just 3 weeks left in the regular season (well, except for Army/Navy). Last week was a whopper and the GCR had good and bad bits of the prognostication component. The FCS games were the most successful with the algorithm picking the winner 42 …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 for Week 10

Happy Sunday and what a weekend of football is was again! Of the 62 FBS vs FBS games, 20 (.323) of them were straight up upsets, meaning 19 teams that won were Vegas underdogs. That includes Army destroying Air Force’s dream of a perfect season. Here is the complete list: Favorite Winner N Illinois -3.0 …