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Welcome to the first day of the 2024-2025 bowl season. Yesterday, I posted about the Army/Navy game and the quarterfinals for the FCS tournament including last night’s 52-19 shellacking of Idaho by still-undefeated Montana St. Today, the playoffs for both FCS and FBS shift to bowl season and will be included in these posts. ….. …
Welcome back oh great and wonderful college football fans. The final game of the 2024 regular season is this weekend when Army and Navy meet for the 125th time. Navy leads the series 62-55-7 and has the longest winning streak at 14 (2002-2015) but Army has taken the last two battles. I think it’s important …
Read More “G’s Expectation or The Annual Army/Navy Game (and the FCS Quarterfinals)”
Well, college football fans, the last two days have been very exciting considering there were only 18 games played. Congratulations to the FCS winners that are moving on to the round of 8 and to the 10 Conference Champions. We had pure upsets (thank you, Army, Ohio, Clemson, Georgia, and Marshall) which may or may …
Read More “G’s Evaluation or the Top 263 After Championship Week”
Welcome back college football fans. Whether emotion you may or may not have about the first 12-team playoff selection, there are still games to be played: 18 of them this weekend to be exact. Let’s walk through the conference championship games: ….. Tonight (Friday) at 7:00 (all times Eastern) we have W Kentucky (8-4/67) at …
Welcome back sports fans. With all the controversy surrounding the Playoff Committee’s choices tonight (although Selection Sunday is the REAL one) brought on, in part, from the “our team is better than that team” and “our conference has to try really hard” type stuff. The politicking is sometimes whining, sometimes poignant, always entertaining. I’ve said …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Conference Is Actually the Strongest?”
Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans. It was rivalry week: a week full of animosity and downright hatred at times resulting in more in-game fighting, more unsportsmanlike penalties, more post-game flag-induced melees at mid-field, and more excuses from the losers. These games are so important that after losing his 4th straight to …
Welcome back, a day late, for this week’s games to watch and predictions. My flight was delayed last night and attempts to use the free airport internet proved fruitless (you can do better Dulles), so I’m a day later than usual. There were 2 games last night from the MAC conference. With the records and …
Welcome back to a special edition of G’s Explanation. Each year I like to take some time to understand the postseason picture. The focus has been on the 12-team playoff or the 4-team playoff or the BCS Championship for a couple of decades but there have only been a precious few who have ever had …
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And then there were 2. Oregon (11-0/1) who was idle this weekend and Montana St (12-0/92) who won their rivalry game against Montana (8-4/171) are the only undefeated teams remaining. Army (9-1/16) and Indiana (10-1/5) both lost. This weekend was the epitome of this season. Let’s get rid of divisions (except for the Sun Belt …
Welcome to a new week in college football. First, it is Rivalry Week for the FCS. Most teams will play their last regular season games (5 exceptions in the SWAC who play next week). Then that same SWAC will have a championship game, and that winner will play South Carolina St in the Celebration Bowl …
