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Happy Friday, oh great and wonderful sports fans. I hope you’ve read about the FCS and are ready for some bowl action. ….. At the GCR, bowl season is a little unique. Since August, we had one Expectation for the week to predict every game: sometimes over 130 of them. But during bowl season, we …
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Welcome back college football fans! This is the first of two Expectations today and will focus just on the FCS which has 3 very important games this weekend. ….. First, in the first semifinal, which kicked off about 22 minutes ago, pits the only remaining east coast team representing the Colonial Athletic Conference, Albany Great …
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Each year, in the week following the FBS conference championships, we have the Army/Navy game where college kids who don’t get to opt to stay in school for their 5th, 6th, 7th seasons and who become active duty officers in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps to serve this nation with bravery and sacrifice, play …
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What a championship week! One previously undefeated team fell as Georgia (12-1/7) lost to Alabama (12-1/4). Michigan (13-0/1), Florida St (13-0/2), Washington (13-0/3), Liberty (13-0/10), and South Dakota St (12-0/102) remain. Next week, we only have 5 games: Army/Navy and the quarterfinals of the FCS Playoffs. ….. If the GCR drove the Playoff selection, we …
Happy Friday, college football fans! If you are a Power 5 or Group of 5 fan, welcome to championship weekend. If you are an FCS fan, welcome to the second round of the playoffs and championship for the SWAC conference. If you, like me, are just a college football fan, welcome to both! ….. There …
Welcome back to championship week (or round 2 of the FCS playoffs). Yesterday we ranked the FBS conferences and now it’s time to do the same for the FCS brethren. It’s not as complicated as yesterday and no ranting and raving like a lunatic today. In fact, the rank is simply based on the average …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Let’s Rank the FCS Conferences”
Welcome back college football fans! Since the regular season is at an end, it’s time for some reflection. Today, we are going to explore the FBS conferences in a little compare and contrast mode: aka, why Tulane shouldn’t get a NYE bowl, but they will anyway. Tomorrow, we’ll look at the FCS conferences as week …
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Welcome back, sports fans. There’s a lot to unpack this week so expect some additional posts later on. Today is simply about the rankings. Rivalry week did not disappoint with closer than expected games, last-minute victories, huge upsets, and just plain old good football. ….. If the playoffs started today, and the GCR had the …
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Happy Tuesday sports fans for the last MACNation week of 2023. I’ll wait while you grab some tissue. This season has been a grind. The FCS is done except for a couple of games in the SWAC conference and the first round of the playoffs (more to come on that). ….. Last week, the GCR …
Once again, we had a great weekend of college football. Shout out to the state of New Mexico who had both programs win upsets on the road, with both teams being 20+ point underdogs. New Mexico St (9-3/43) trounced Auburn (6-5/48) 31-10. Then New Mexico followed that up by edging Fresno St 25-17. Enchanting day …
