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Happy Sunday and welcome back to the 2023 GCR. It’s time to begin our analysis of the upcoming season and, as we do every year, we’ll start with the conferences with the weakest expected strength of schedule (SOS). Before we jump in, let’s review how the analysis is done. ….. Preseason SOS is based on …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Least Challenged Conference Plus The Special Case”
Greetings, oh great and wonderful College Football Fans. I know the Major League season is only 1/3 of the way through and the NBA/NHL are still playing, but it’s time to kick off another season of everyone’s, or rather my, favorite blog. We are 89 days from the week 0 games and the time is …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Can You Believe How Many Conference Changes There Are This Year?”
Happy Saturday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. We are in recruiting/coaching replacement/prepping for conference realignment/NFL playoff mode lately, and the GCR will soon be working solely on getting ready for next season. Today’s blog is all about the final FBS conference rankings for 2022 and my final (maybe, who knows for sure) post …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which FBS Conferences Ruled Supreme in 2022?”
Happy Sunday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Today we are going to explore the FCS and figure out which conferences were the best (one has to give the initial nod to the Missouri Valley Conference who had both teams in the finals, but we’ll see what the data show). The next post will …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Let’s Rank the FCS Conferences”
Welcome back to the final ranking for this season. First, a quick story: I was getting ready to write this yesterday and found that there were computer issues that, you know, didn’t let me open any files at all. Call out to Everything Computers on Canton Road in Marietta for doing his magic to correct …
Sorry for the late post, college football fans, but it’s been one of those days. Have no fear though, the GCR building (aka my house) and the entire staff (aka me) have been working on the analysis for this game all week long. First, congratulations to the South Dakota St Jackrabbits for beating their archrival …
Welcome back after the short break from college football after a whirlwind bowl season. There are just 2 championship games left starting today at 2:00 Eastern with the FCS Championship game played in Frisco, Texas. The game not only features conference foes, but a bitter rivalry. North Dakota St holds the record with 9 FCS …
I didn’t post yesterday because, like most football fans everywhere, I was consumed with the collapse of Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills Monday night. As we all have him, his family, and his teammates in our thoughts and prayers, we remember that football is a game and entertainment. Injuries happen and sometimes we are …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Let’s Recap the January Bowl Games”
Welcome to day 15 of the bowl season and the last non-championship games of this campaign. Happy New Year from the GCR to any and all readers whether you see us directly from this website, Facebook, Twitter, email, or however you find my paltry attempt at blogging. Before we shift to 2023, let’s recap the …
Happy New Year’s Eve, oh great and wonderful college football fans. So far there have been 33 bowl games and a whopping 19 of them have been one-score (8 points or fewer) games. That’s a lot of excitement. There have only been 9 games decided by 17 or more points and only 5 20+ point …
