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Welcome back, college football fans. I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday during which we remember those service men and women who gave their lives so that the American Experiment can continue. This week, we discuss the 22nd most-challenged or 4th least-challenged conference (depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist). As a recap, …
Welcome back, college football fans. We are inching closer to the tantalizing start of the season and in this episode, we are discussing the 3 least difficult conference, aka the 23rd most difficult. Prior to a very late add to the conference lineup, the Mercyhurst Lakers out of Erie PA, the Northeast Conference (NEC), with …
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Welcome back college football fans as we dive into the second in our series ranking the 25 D1 football conferences in terms of pre-season strength of schedule. Last time we talked about the lowly Pioneer League and this week we step up a notch to the unique Ivy League. These 8 storied institutions still play …
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Happy Wednesday and welcome to the first top 25 of the GCR year. There are 25 football conferences and, while the GCR has no preseason rank (all teams start the season tied for first or last, however you prefer to look at it), I do indulge in a little preseason analysis based on last year’s …
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The post-championship lull is over, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Since we last spoke, the GCR lost a wonderful long-term friend, my wife and I built our future retirement home, and our daughter maintained her 4.0 in college (as a math major, who could have figured that out?). And I would be remiss …
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It’s finally here, college football fans; the season is over. Congratulations to the Michigan Wolverines and the South Dakota St Jackrabbits who not only won their respective league championships, but also were the only remaining perfect teams. ….. The Big Ten won the pct best conference title in the playoffs with a parity-driven 6-4 (.600). …
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Welcome back to the final game of the college football season. It’s bittersweet, but it’s been a fantastic journey over the last 4 and 1/2 months. Yesterday, the South Dakota St Jackrabbits became back-to-back FCS champions by stopping the Montana Grizzlies 23-3. Congratulations Jackrabbits on being one of just two undefeated teams in 2023-24. ….. …
Welcome back after the post-bowl decompression. I know tomorrow is the big game between Michigan (14-0/1) and Washington (14-0/2) which is getting almost all of the press, but there is a championship game today between South Dakota St (14-0/97), 1st in the FCS, and Montana (13-1/129), 3rd in the FCS. Note: Florida A&M (12-1/125) holds …
Welcome back after a much-needed break from the college football bowl season. Opt-outs. Transfer portal open during the bowl season. A 13-0 team playing with essentially their practice squad and getting blown out. Something has to be done about the competitiveness of non-playoff bowl games. ….. The GCR was just 9-10 (.474) straight up this …
Welcom.e back, college football fans, to the final post of 2023. Being that NYE is a Sunday and the NFL will be in full swing with playoff spots to be clinched, we get tomorrow off before the big New Year’s Day games. ….. Yesterday we had a wide range of games. First, a barnburner of …
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