All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Welcome, college football fans, to a special edition of the GCR related to those sometimes odd, sometimes confusing, but always inspiring mascots. Some schools have live animals as their symbol, some have more than one, some have mascots based on historical people. There is a wide range. Based on a question by long-time reader Carl, …
Welcome back to the latest episode of the GCR. I have to apologize for the non-standard schedule. My day job is rewarding, yet very long days. So, if you can forgive me and maintain flexibility, we will keep driving toward kickoff (just 4 weeks from yesterday). ….. Today we are going to look at the …
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Welcome back, college football fans. This episode is a day early (a first for this season, just in case I run into more hotel internet issues), but it’s a fun one. With the destruction of the Pac-12 (California and Stanford to the ACC along with SMU of the America; Arizona, Arizona St, Colorado, and Utah …
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Welcome back. Apologies for the delay: between 14 hour work days and the hotel’s internet not working most of the week and a long drive back to Atlanta from Memphis due to flight cancellations, I’m trying to play catch up. Thankfully, we are only 1 episode behind. Just in case, I’m going to post Monday’s …
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Welcome back, college football fans, to the latest episode of the 2024-25 season. We started way back on May 15th with the 25th (and least) challenged conference and have worked our way every 4th day (on average) to make it to the number 10. A couple of seasons ago, there was a mass exodus as …
Welcome back, college football fans, as we explore the 11th most difficult conference, aka the easiest FBS conference in 2024. We’ve gone through all of the FCS and as we shift I should define just in case we have a new football fan out there. FCS (Football Championship Series) is what would be called “mid-majors” …
Happy Sunday, college football fans, and I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing 4th of July weekend. This episode will finish up the FCS conferences. Now, I know many of you are not exactly into the FCS, but I posit to you that this conference is one of the best in football. The weakest …
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Welcome oh great and wonderful college football fans from the lovely confines of Memphis where the heat index was 113 today! But in this episode we are talking about the penultimate FCS conference from a pre-season strength of schedule view. ….. The 9-team Southern Conference (or SoCon) has 8 teams playing Core 4 (used to …
