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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans, for the latest weirdness that is the GCR Top 265. I say that only because most of the teams have not showcased who they are yet. There are teams that play very, um, uninspiring non-conference slates. There are others, like Virginia Tech, who despite losing both …
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Welcome back, college football fans, from a 5-day, long-weekend, football extravaganza! Jojo and I were able to watch the Aflac Kickoff between Virginia Tech and South Carolina here in Atlanta and that place was rocking! I admit I watch more football than most, but I watched at least part of over 30 games this weekend, …
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Welcome back, college football fans, from the tease that was Week 0. We had a Group of 5 team (Hawaii) beat a Core 4 team (Stanford) at home, on a last second field goal, to beat the spread 23-20. We had the FCS kickoff in Montgomery, AL, cancelled due to weather with just under half …
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Welcome to the final football post for the 2024 season. Usually, I’m a little quicker on the final ranking, but I’ve been working on some soon to be announced, and I hope substantially improving, upgrades to the GCR. I’ll have a post soon talking about those changes. This post is to congratulate all 263 D1 …
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Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans, to episode 442 of the GCR. Yesterday we had the final FBS quarterfinal game, aka the Sugar Bowl, between Notre Dame (13-1/1) and Georgia (11-3/7). Without QB1 Beck, who was injured and declared for the draft, the Bulldogs looked lost on offense. Notre Dame came prepared …
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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 …
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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 …
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