Happy Sunday sports fans and welcome to the latest edition of the GCR. Three undefeated teams tasted that rare defeat yesterday starting with Harvard (5-1/138) losing to Princeton (3-3/188). That leaves just South Dakota St (7-0/87) as the sole perfect FCS team. Joining Harvard in the club were Penn St (6-1/7) who lost to Ohio …
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Wow, oh great and wonderful college football fans! As if this season didn’t have enough rollercoaster rides in it, we had last minute comebacks (Stanford, Oklahoma St, Florida, Washington, et al) and blowout upsets (Pittsburgh, FAU, Iowa St, Arizona, et al) and first-time losers (Southern Cal, Oregon, Louisville), and we even had a first-time winner …
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What an exciting weekend, oh great and wonderful college football fans. 6 of our FBS and 1 of our FCS undefeated teams took one on the chin leaving us with 14 and 2, respectively. We all know that means a shakeup in the GCR Top 261. ….. Our top 4 are very Big Ten heavy. …
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Happy Sunday after a wonderful set of games this weekend! Another week of last-minute heroics, upsets, teams that seemed to forget what game they were playing, and just…fun. We have a new set of playoff teams. If the season ended today, and the selection committee used the GCR, Texas would face Oklahoma and Michigan would …
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Happy Sunday college football fans! Just…wow! What a bunch of great games with surprising upsets, comeback and last-minute wins, and overtime drama. I will have a post tomorrow talking through all of this and later this week look for an Exploration on the strength of the conferences since we just hit the 1/4 season mark. …
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Happy Sunday and welcome back after a very exciting (and stressful for some teams) week. There will be more later in the next installment of G’s Explanation, but as a teaser, the GCR top 25 going into this week was 21-3 with Southern Cal sitting idle. The losers were Kansas St (then 12) to then …
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Happy Sunday and I hope you get some rest today after an exhilarating day of college football. Numerous FCS teams (Holy Cross/Boston College, Youngstown St/Ohio St, New Hampshire/C Michigan, E Illinois/Bowling Green, Charleston/Clemson, E Kentucky/Kentucky, Furman/South Carolina, Florida A&M/South Florida, Morgan St/Akron and E Washington/Fresno St) put some scare into their FBS opponents, at least …
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I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend of college football. There were some surprises, upsets, blowouts, key injuries, coaching controversy, and, sadly, some arrests. Pretty typical first week stuff, overall. Remember as you peruse the list below, it’s just week one so not a lot of data point to truly differentiate. I’ll post another …
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Welcome back to the final ranking for this season. First, a quick story: I was getting ready to write this yesterday and found that there were computer issues that, you know, didn’t let me open any files at all. Call out to Everything Computers on Canton Road in Marietta for doing his magic to correct …
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Happy Sunday, college football fans. The regular season (except for the Army/Navy game next week) is over and it’s time to shift to bowl games. Congratulations to the conference (and FCS playoff game) winners. Celebrate and watch for bowl game assignments to start dropping today. But the key thing everybody is thinking about is who …
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