All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Welcome back, college football fans, for episode 698 or our September edition, and first of the season, Conference Comparison. This analysis has been part of the GCR for years, and, as always, we constantly tweak it for continuous improvement. The biggest change this season is clarification around Top 25/Bottom 10 teams. There is more detail …
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Welcome, college football fans, to episode 697 which is all about ranking all 266 Division I football teams after this week’s action. As we were preparing for today, we saw a reference to six of the AP Top 18 teams lost yesterday. BYU was idle so those teams, the best in the country, were just …
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 696 which is a full slate of 116 games today. Last night, in addition to Harvard (2-0/100) taking early control of the Ivy by besting Brown (1-1/160) 14-10, Rutgers (1-3/108) finally got a win against FCS Howard (1-3/262). Army (2-1/77) won but Navy (1-2/113) lost in AAC play …
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Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans, to episode 695 or the first Friday of fall! While not true everywhere in the country, the southeast is finally being blessed with non-scorching temperatures. Football teams (and fans) won’t have to endure triple-digit heat indexes this weekend. ….. Last night, our Week 4 kickoff game …
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Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 694 which focuses on the only Division I (D1) football game today. To prepare for the week, there are 6 games tomorrow (Friday) and a full slate on Saturday. Like we are planning for not only football, but also Men’s and Women’s basketball, if there’s a D1 game …
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 693 or the Top 266 for Week 3. There were some disappointments (Colorado [2-1/76] falling badly (41-7) at Northwestern [2-0/20]), some inclusion (the Ivy League went 4-4 in their opening weekend), and the oddest (legit) ending of a game we’ve ever seen. NC St (1-2/95) was up 31-28 …
Welcome back, sports fans, to episode 692 or the 124 games (434 or so hours) of college football today. Before we get to that, we had three games yesterday. Miami FL (3-0/1) beat Wake Forest (2-1/29) in an ACC showdown, 33-20. While 13 points is an impressive victory, Vegas had the line at 20.5 (the …
Welcome back, college football fans to episode 691 or the three games tonight. First, Pittsburgh (3-0/11) remained perfect by taking down fellow ACC opponent Syracuse (1-2/53) by a score of 27-13. That propels the GCR into the weekend predictions with a correct result in both picking the winner and which team would cover (PITT for …
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 690 dedicated to the single game being played tonight: Syracuse (1-1/92) at Pittsburgh (2-0/13). Let’s dive into this one a bit. ….. The Orange, which was adopted as Syracuse’s color in 1890, the first school to pick that color, came after a number of…softer colors such as pink, …
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Welcome, oh great and wonderful college football fans, to episode 689 or a review of how the GCR actually works and the metrics we calculate. Throughout the season, we’ll talk about most of this content, but we felt it might be good to have a reference post for our approach. ….. When talking to people …
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