G’s Evaluation or The Penultimate Week Top 265

Welcome back, college football fans. It was a wild and crazy weekend with FCS conference champions decided (except for the SWAC) and some upsets/close calls. ….. We had 9 teams earn bowl eligibility this week bringing the total to 73 out of the 82 needed to fill the schedule. The new arrivals are Clemson, Duke, …

G’s Evaluation or Was This Near Miss Week?

Welcome back, college football fans. I have to apologize for shrinkflating the football portion of the GCR the last couple of weeks. To be truthful, JoJo is off at college working on really hard and indecipherable math, and I have been under the weather on top of working to make sure the basketball version is …

G’s Evaluation or Who Are the Best Teams?

Welcome back after a thrilling weekend of football. JoJo and I took in a Chattanooga Mocs game, met Scrappy the mascot, saw some cheerleaders at dinner afterwards, and had a great time. Unfortunately, a Furman player was seriously injured, and we pray he will heal completely and quickly. The ACC ACC’d again with California upsetting …

G’s Evaluation or the Top 265 for Week 11

Welcome back, college football fans. Every week, we expect a good number of upsets. To make the point, the GCR had 14 of the 52 FBS games with the winner being the Vegas underdog and an additional 4 that had the underdog covering (note: we were 10-8 in those games). That’s roughly 1/3 of the …

G’s Evaluation or the Top 265 for Week 9!

Welcome back, college football fans, as the temps drop, the heat rises. We had some close calls including an OT win by Virginia over North Carolina, and complete failures to play for 60 minutes when South Carolina and Mississippi St lost late leads over Alabama and Texas, respectively, and Purdue’s QB catching his own deflected …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 25 for Week 9

Welcome back, sports fans, after one of the craziest weeks in a long time. Five teams that were undefeated coming in lost. Mississippi losing at Georgia in a close game or UNLV losing to Boise St on the blue-headache-inducing field is one thing, but Miami FL lost to Louisville and Memphis lost to UAB. Texas …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 265 after Week 7

Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans! This week was so much fun that I think I broke a personal record by watching at least part of 31 games. Congratulations are in order to Tennessee Tech and Presbyterian who joined Memphis in the 10-consecutive win club – leading all of Division I in …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 265 after Week 5

Welcome back, college football fans, after a rough and tumble and fantastic weekend! The standings are all wonky compared to what we’d expect. Clemson and Florida St have both lost ACC games while Louisville, Georgia Tech, and Miami FL are undefeated on the season. Indiana and Maryland are still perfect along with perennials Ohio St …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 265 for Week 4

Welcome back after a crazy weekend of wacko games. Maryland (4-0/12) beat Wisconsin (2-2/77) in Madison by 17, Syracuse (3-1/46) took down Clemson (1-3/79) in Death Valley East, UNLV (4-0/72) had to win the 4th quarter 17-0 to survive at Miami OH (0-3/132) 41-38, Delaware (3-1/60) in their first season as an FBS team are …

G’s Evaluation or Why Is the Top 265 Shuffling So Much?

Welcome back, college football fans, after a wonderful but exhausting weekend of the greatest sport in the world. Georgia (3-0/10) edged Tennessee (2-1/36) on an overturned call in overtime, Texas A&M (3-0/22) won over Notre Dame (0-2/65) on a 4th and goal bit of magic, Vanderbilt (3-0/27) stopped a 16-game losing streak to South Carolina …