G’s Exploration: Update on the Virginia Shooting

To the grieving college football community and especially to the shock and pain the University of Virginia is feeling, this latest shooting involving a school is many too many. An ex-player at Virginia shot and killed 3 current football players as well as wounding 2 other students. He has been apprehended and perhaps we will …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 for Week 11

Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans. Who would have thought at this point in the season, UCONN and Kansas would be bowl eligible while Oklahoma, Memphis, Miami FL, BYU, App St and Arkansas still need another victory to claim a spot. Or that Texas A&M would be the first SEC team to get …

G’s Expectation or Who Wins (and Who Covers) in Week 11

Happy Tuesday and welcome to what will undoubtedly be another wild week of college football. MACNation has already begun with 3 games on the docket tonight. E Michigan (5-4/117) is winning at Akron (1-8/111) 17-7 with 14:21 to go in the half (Vegas: EMI -5.5, GCR: EMI 60.6%, Cover: EMI). Miami OH (4-5/130) is hosting …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 for Week 10

Happy Sunday after a wonderful Saturday of college football. 2 previously undefeated teams earned their first L of the season when Clemson (8-1/6) lost on the road to Notre Dame (6-3/19) and Tennessee (8-1/5) lost the battle of 8-0’s to Georgia (9-0/1). Two 1-loss FBS teams suffered their second defeat effectively dropping them out of …

G’s Expectation or Who Wins Week 10?

Happy Tuesday and welcome to MACNation 2022! This is the time of year the MAC conference entertains us on Tuesdays and Wednesdays which not only gives us some level of football every day of the week, but also allows these athletes to shine without a lot of competition. Tonight, Ball St (4-4/102) and Kent St …

G’s Evaluation or the Top 261 for Week 9

Happy Sunday, college football fans. I hope your team did well yesterday (none of mine did, but that’s college football). We did have a previously undefeated team go down yesterday when Penn (6-1/139) lost to Brown (3-4/210) 34-31. That leaves us with 6 Power 5 teams (Georgia, Ohio St, Michigan, Tennessee, Clemson, and TCU, in …

G’s Expectation or Who Will Win This Weekend?

Happy Thursday and the start of Week 9 in college football! Years ago, when I first started the original calculations, I didn’t have any predictions. Just the rankings (and that was just for the FBS). Later, I added the FCS to the rankings, but still hadn’t figured out a decent predictive formula. Finally, a few …

Updated and More User-Friendly Conference Lists

Welcome back sports fans! Most of us know Ohio St is in Columbus, Oklahoma is in Norman, and Alabama is in Tuscaloosa, but probably fewer of us could put W Michigan in Kalamazoo, Texas Tech in Lubbock, or Washington St in Pullman. Only a fan of the school in question would probably know Utah Tech …

G’s Explanation or How Is This Bowl Season Filling Out?

Happy Humpday, college football fans. We are approaching Halloween which brings us some great rivalry games like Michigan/Michigan St and Georgia/Florida, and it also brings us close to November when the MAC goes wonky on us (in a wonderful and fantastic way) with Tuesday and Wednesday games for a month. That means in November we …

G’s Evaluation or Week 8 Top 261

Welcome, college football fans, to a late edition of G’s Evaluation. This week was Parent’s Weekend at Mississippi St, where along with some cornhole (my daughter beat me soundly) and attending a play (seen better), we had a watch party for Alabama to dismantle the Bulldogs. More events this morning and then the long drive …