All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 678. We had 48 more games yesterday to finish up our first week or Week 0 in football lingo. We started in Ireland where a 3rd quarter safety forced TCU to go for it on 4th and 2 on the NCAR 10 (horrible pass failed) because the score …
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 677 or the final games for Week 0. Last night we had another set of all-FCS games, but today we add some FBS matchups to the mix for the first time this season. That includes a game in Ireland (North Carolina and TCU) and a few neutral site …
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 676, aka our second day of the season. Yesterday, our first 21 games ran the gamut. The Lafayette/Georgetown game was cancelled due to persistent lightning, of the 8 FCS games versus non-division I (non-D1) games only 5 won, and we had our first overtime game. A few superlatives: …
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 675, aka the kickoff of the 2026-27 season! It’s been nearly 7 months since we had a college football game putting in a state of withdrawal. Good news: the wait is over. Bad news: we guess because all of the games tonight are FCS games, not a single …
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 674! Today, the last day before the season begins, is focused on how things will look in this year’s GCR. We learned a great deal during March Madness last spring and will be using that approach. ….. When we first started posting the games of the week a …
Read More “G’s Explanation or A New Season and A New Format”
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 673 which is the summary of our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown as we are but two days away from the first games of the season. If you are just joining us, here’s the good news: everything we talked about (less a few editorial comments) are in …
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 672 and our most-challenged conference in our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown. On July 7th in episode 647, we introduced this year’s PS-SOS countdown and started with #25 Pioneer League (PS-SOS of 3.341 and an average team rank of 244.4 out of 266 teams) on July 9th. …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Almost Done, Time for Number One!”
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 671 and the penultimate in our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown for all 25 Division I (D1) conferences. We started with the Pioneer League, who plays the overall least-challenging schedule this season and have made it through to number two. With only 7 days left before the …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Want to Guess Who is Sitting at Number Two?”
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 670 as we continue to countdown th7.e 25 Division I (D1) conferences from least-challenged to most-challenged using our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) metric. So far, we’ve completed the 14 FCS (non-bowl eligible conferences such as SoCon, Big Sky, Missouri Valley, Ivy, and so on) before moving to …
Read More “G’s Exploration or What a Day to Be in Search of Number Three!”
Welcome back, oh great and wonderful sports fans, to episode #669. As long-time reader and really good friend Carl L. pointed out, we are past the 2/3 of the way to 1000 mark! We estimate we’ll be around 850 at the end of March Madness in April (the end of our fiscal season). That assumes …
Read More “G’s Exploration or It’s Time for More, Bring on Number Four!”
