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Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans, to the main event: Week 1 of the 2025 College Football Season! It’s the time of year that we begin to believe the leaves will eventually change color and the temperature will actually lower and stay that way. It’s the time we congratulate those schools who …
Read More “G’s Expectation or The First Full Week of College Football”
Welcome back, college football fans, from the tease that was Week 0. We had a Group of 5 team (Hawaii) beat a Core 4 team (Stanford) at home, on a last second field goal, to beat the spread 23-20. We had the FCS kickoff in Montgomery, AL, cancelled due to weather with just under half …
Read More “G’s Evaluation or How Did We Have Eight and Three Quarters Games?”
Welcome back, sports fans, to the GCRs 500th episode. First, thank you to JoJo not only for taking control of the GCR while I was on vacation earlier this summer, but also for the general interest and increased knowledge of college football as a whole. We are trying to figure out the logistics for a …
Read More “G’s Expectation or College Football Is Finally HERE!”
Welcome back, oh great and patient college football fans to our 499th episode on this platform. I suppose many of you, like us, see the days of August go by so incredibly slowly as our anticipation grows towards the initial kickoff. Just three more sleeps before the Dublin Ireland game kicks off (noon Eastern on …
Read More “G’s Evaluation or Is This the Last Preseason Episode?”
Welcome back college football fans to the GCR’s 498th episode since starting this blog. Prior to that the episodes were sent via email to a very small number of people. At the midweek mark, we will have a special episode summing up the preseason Strength of Schedule (SOS) rankings and some other cuts of the …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Countdown is (Nearly) Complete”
Welcome back college football fans to the latest episode in our annual preseason strength of schedule (SOS) countdown by conference. Since our third-most-difficult conference, the ACC, episode published last Sunday, both the Coaches’ and the AP polls have dropped. I’ve seen a ton of comparisons between these, our final two conferences: the SEC and the …
Welcome back, sports fans, for the 496th episode of the GCR as we talk about the 3rd most challenged conference in college football, the 17-team ACC. We are just 13 days away from the first game of the season and our annual preseason countdown is nearly complete. ….. I mentioned in a previous episode that …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Just Where is the ACC Heading?”
Howdy, oh great and wonderful college football fans. It’s August, teams are in camp, and the weather has even turned a bit fall-like, although here in the South, summer will be back with a vengeance at least one more time. We are just 17 days from the first game which will feature two teams from …
Welcome back, college football fans, as we finish up the Group of 5 conferences. This final stop is the remnant of the once proud Pac-12, the only conference with a number that changed it to equal the number of teams in the conference (see 18-team Big Ten and 16-team Big 12). At least, until ten …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Future Is Wacky in the West”
