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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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