G’s Expectation or It’s a Nice Day, Let’s Play Five

Happy Friday, college football fans and welcome back after another day of close games (aargh). Minnesota (-10.0) looked like they would cover Syracuse in the Pinstripe Bowl until they give up a TD with 2:30 to go creating a 28-20 final. Vegas 0-1, GCR 1-0, Cover 0-1. The Cheez-It Bowl was close throughout and very …

G’s Expectation or The Twelfth Day of Bowl Season

All I can say is “wow!”, oh great and wonderful college football fans. What a set of games yesterday! In the Military Bowl, UCF gave Duke everything they could handle before the Blue Devils finally put the last nail in the coffin late in the 4th to take the game 30-13. Vegas 1-0, GCR 1-0, …

G’s Expectation or We’ve Reached the Halfway Point

Welcome to the second half of bowl season, at least in number of games. As of last night, 21 FBS bowls are over and done with and 21 (including the championship game) remain. The games tend to ratchet up in intensity starting today and we have lots a great football ahead. Let’s recap yesterday’s games …

G’s Expectation or The Games of December 27th

Happy Tuesday and day 10 of this year’s bowl season. Yesterday, in a triple (Vegas, GCR to win, and GCR to cover) upset, New Mexico St quickly jumped on top of Bowling Green 14-0 at the half and held on despite a late surge to win the Quick Lane Bowl, 24-19. That makes the Aggies …

G’s Expectation or Quick, Lane, Let’s Go to Detroit

Welcome back, college football fans, after a much-needed day off. I know most companies have today as a holiday, but here at the GCR, we have 100% of the staff back on bowl duty. Ok, that’s me, but I’m 100% back on bowl duty. Before we get to today’s game, let’s look at a weird …

G’s Expectation or It’s Cold – How about a Game in Hawaii?

Welcome to our Christmas Eve addition of the GCR. I hope everyone is staying warm and comfortable today. Yesterday we had a couple of really exciting games. First, in the Independence Bowl, Houston trailed Louisiana 16-6 at the half and my wife said, “I don’t think the GCR got this one right,” but in went …

G’s Expectation or the Games of December 23rd

Happy Friday college football fans. We had a good game to watch last night as Air Force ran (and occasionally passed) over Baylor, 30-15 in the Armed Forces Bowl. The Falcons ground game ate up more than 40 minutes of the clock and Baylor just couldn’t find the answer. Here is the updated winners/losers chart: …

G’s Expectation or Let’s Celebrate the Armed Forces!

Happy Thursday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. There was a major upset last night in New Orleans as Vegas and the GCR missed on W Kentucky’s impressive 44-23 win over South Alabama. The Hilltoppers could do little wrong to start the game and jumped to a 24-0 lead that the Jaguars cut to …

G’s Expectation or Let’s Head to New Orleans

Happy Wednesday and welcome to day 5 of the FBS bowl season. Yesterday the MAC had a great day with 2 victories. First, in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, E Michigan upset San Jose St 41-27 with a monster 2nd quarter to take a 30-13 half time lead and held on despite being outgained 498-416. …

G’s Expectation or the Games of December 20th

Welcome back for another bowl game episode of G’s Expectation. A recap of yesterday’s Myrtle Beach Bowl shows what looked like a complete blowout by Marshall (and especially that defense – wow!) turn into a potential major comeback in the 3rd quarter. The Thundering Herd had a commanding 28-0 lead with 9:51 to go in …