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Welcome back to bowl season. Yesterday we had 3 games that had their own kind of drama. Ohio (11-3/42) jumped all over Jacksonville St (9-5/72) in the Cure bowl, building a 27-7 halftime lead and 27-14 to start the 4th quarter. A quick FG pushed the lead to 30-14 and it looked like the Ohio …
Welcome back to episode 431 of the GCR blog. This is the time of year of counting down: Christmas is coming, Hanukkah is coming, Kwanzaa is coming, New Year’s is coming, etc. And we have been counting down days until the new FBS playoff format kicks off. That wait is nearly over. Before we get …
Read More “G’s Expectation or It’s the First Day of the 12-Team Playoff”
And we are back for another episode of Bowl Season 2024-25. Last night, the GCR moved to 5-0 when just picking the winner (aka straight up) and 3-2 against the spread so far. James Madison (9-4/61) trailed at halftime of the Boca Raton and covered the 7.5 point spread by kicking a field goal at …
Read More “G’s Expectation or Who Is Ready for the New Orleans Bowl?”
Welcome back to 2024 bowl season, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Last night, we had our first of four straight bowls named for the city with the Frisco (TX) Bowl. Memphis was favored and I wrote they should cover up to 13 points. The Tigers jumped on top of West Virginia 17-0 within …
Read More “G’s Expectation or The Doubleheader That Is December 18”
Welcome back sports fans as we kick off the next bowl game. On Saturday, Jackson St (12-2/118) stopped a 2-game losing streak in the Celebration Bowl by tackling South Carolina St (9-3/147) 28-7. As a reminder, the Celebration Bowl is the only FCS bowl. To kick of the FBS bowls later in the evening, the …
Read More “G’s Expectation or The Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl”
Welcome to the first day of the 2024-2025 bowl season. Yesterday, I posted about the Army/Navy game and the quarterfinals for the FCS tournament including last night’s 52-19 shellacking of Idaho by still-undefeated Montana St. Today, the playoffs for both FCS and FBS shift to bowl season and will be included in these posts. ….. …
Welcome back oh great and wonderful college football fans. The final game of the 2024 regular season is this weekend when Army and Navy meet for the 125th time. Navy leads the series 62-55-7 and has the longest winning streak at 14 (2002-2015) but Army has taken the last two battles. I think it’s important …
Read More “G’s Expectation or The Annual Army/Navy Game (and the FCS Quarterfinals)”
Well, college football fans, the last two days have been very exciting considering there were only 18 games played. Congratulations to the FCS winners that are moving on to the round of 8 and to the 10 Conference Champions. We had pure upsets (thank you, Army, Ohio, Clemson, Georgia, and Marshall) which may or may …
Read More “G’s Evaluation or the Top 263 After Championship Week”
Welcome back college football fans. Whether emotion you may or may not have about the first 12-team playoff selection, there are still games to be played: 18 of them this weekend to be exact. Let’s walk through the conference championship games: ….. Tonight (Friday) at 7:00 (all times Eastern) we have W Kentucky (8-4/67) at …
Welcome back sports fans. With all the controversy surrounding the Playoff Committee’s choices tonight (although Selection Sunday is the REAL one) brought on, in part, from the “our team is better than that team” and “our conference has to try really hard” type stuff. The politicking is sometimes whining, sometimes poignant, always entertaining. I’ve said …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Conference Is Actually the Strongest?”
