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Happy Friday college football fans and welcome to the first day-by-day edition of the prediction model. Starting today, you’ll see one of these only for the games of the day rather than the remainder of the week. Today is all about the FCS playoffs with 3 games on the docket. Before we get to that, …
Happy Wednesday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. It’s been a while since I’ve had a post all about the statistics. Well, you are in luck today if you like that kind of thing (and who wouldn’t?). With the bowl games right around the corner, and it being time for a conference comparison, I …
Read More “G’s Exploration or How Do the FBS Conferences Stack Up?”
Greetings college football fans. We now know the wishes of the playoff committee: Georgia (13-0/1) will play Ohio St (11-1/3) in the Peach Bowl while Michigan (13-0/2) takes on TCU (12-1/4). If you saw my post this morning, this is not a surprise at all. I was at lunch when the announcement came (yes, I …
Happy Sunday, college football fans. The regular season (except for the Army/Navy game next week) is over and it’s time to shift to bowl games. Congratulations to the conference (and FCS playoff game) winners. Celebrate and watch for bowl game assignments to start dropping today. But the key thing everybody is thinking about is who …
Happy Friday of a limited, but all-important, set of games this week. Ok, not all of them are championship games, but all are important. Akron and Buffalo are underway right now in a makeup game with Buffalo needing the win to go 6-6 to get a bowl game. There are currently 80 spots filled out …
Read More “G’s Expectation or What to Watch Championship Week”
Happy Sunday, college football fans! Here’s a stat that shows just how weird yesterday was: for teams that had already clinched a spot in their respective conference championship games, UTSA, TCU, Georgia, Fresno St, Boise St, and Tulane won this week. But Toledo lost to W Michigan (5-7), Coastal Carolina lost to James Madison (8-3) …
Beginning in 2019, the GCR added the FCS and the ability to account for teams playing multiple times. It caused a major rewrite of the program but, by far, for the better. Here is the final ranking for 2018. ….. Rank Team W L SOS Rank Perf Rank 1 Clemson 13 0 58 1 2 …
Read More “Final Rank 2018, the Last Year Prior to the Blog”
As a reference, I’m posting the pre-blog final rankings which often don’t include bowl games because of my own limitations. Here is 2017 from top to bottom. ….. Rank Team W L SOS Rank Perf Rank 1 Wisconsin 12 0 88 1 2 Georgia 11 1 24 3 3 Clemson 11 1 32 4 4 …
As a reference, I’m posting the closest to final rankings I have for the early years. When the GCR began, I only ranked the FBS teams and only through rivalry week (usually). Here are the rankings from top to bottom in 2016. ….. Rank Team W L SOS Rank Perf Rank 1 Alabama 13 0 …
As a reference, I’m posting the closest to final rankings I have for the early years. When the GCR started, I only ranked the FBS teams and only through rivalry week (usually), because I didn’t have the ability to have “repeat” games in which two teams played more than once. Because of that, the Army/Navy …
