Greetings fellow football fans. I hope everyone has enjoyed/will enjoy their December holiday traditions. Before we get into today’s games, let’s recap. Christmas Eve night, BYU traveled west to take on Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl. 2-point favorites, the Cougars fell behind 21-7 early, but roared (pun intended) back in a crazy 34-points-scored 2nd quarter …
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Greetings and Happy Festivus oh great and wonderful football fans. It’s Christmas morning (granted just a few minutes after midnight) in Sydney and when the mates there wake up they are going to want to know all about this year’s Hawaii Bowl. I’ll do my best. The game started in 2002 and Hawaii automatically gets …
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Good evening football fans. Before I jump into tomorrow’s bowl and the whole pirate explanation, there were 9 bowl or playoff games on Saturday. The FCS semifinals finished as expected with James Madison (64/1) and defending champions and undefeated North Dakota State (101/9) rolling to the January 11 title game in Frisco, Texas. These teams …
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Hello fans – history was made today. There were two bowls and 3 milestones. First, Charlotte played in their first bowl ever – Nassau isn’t a bad first stop. Buffalo did win the game and cover the spread (a loss for the GCR), and it was their first ever bowl win in 4 tries. Congratulations …
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Greetings college football fans. The bittersweet month of December is closing – a bunch of bowl games and playoff games are about to hit us as the hectic hustle and bustle of the holiday season, to be followed by 8 months of spring and fall camps, ungodly amounts of speculation, and anticipation for 2020. Don’t …
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Greetings and salutations oh great and wonderful fans. This week was…odd. Not only was my life outside of blogging even busier than normal (and that’s kind of saying something, tbh), but there’s only 1 FBS game, the only FCS bowl game and the FCS quarterfinals happening this week. Oh yeah, and the bowl schedule was …
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Greetings College Football Fans! It’s Championship Week!!!! Also the FCS Playoffs are in round 2! What a great week. 19 games and every single one of them is…I was going to say important, but all games are important to the teams playing in them, at the very least, so how about substantially important. 11 conferences …
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Howdy oh great and wonderful fans. On the plus side, it’s Thanksgiving week – the time for starting the end of year gorging and feasting. On the even plusser (yes, I just made up that word) side, it’s rivalry week. FINALLY!! Great news for every team except for those whose rival had the kind of …
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Hello college football fans! Welcome to the penultimate regular season week for FBS and the final week for FCS. Tuesday I talked about the FCS playoff situation in G’s Exploration. If you haven’t read it, please do and let me know what you think. It’s that time of year where a lot of games are …
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I started this blog on August 30 with a Welcome to the GCR post. Now 77 days later, it’s time for post number 50. I’m pretty sure I didn’t intend to post this often – in the previous email version of this to 30ish people I had one post per week. I think it’s fallen …
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