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All of the facts and data around recent games – heavy on analysis to understand what the Evaluation means
Welcome back for the second episode today! Earlier we posted the conference tourney games and now we have the last regular season conference comparison. We do these, for both women and men, the first week of each month. The last one will come out after all of the postseason games are completed. ….. The Mountain …
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Welcome back, college sports fans, to the 599th overall episode on this platform which is the penultimate conference comparison for the women. ….. With just one week to go, the SEC holds on to the top spot led by Texas while the Northeast Conference lands in 31st despite a pretty good Fairfield team. The worst …
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Welcome back, sports fans, to episode 581 since we began publishing in this forum. The GCR started as a boredom-killing exercise during a slow time at work and mental challenge to see if I (G here) could figure out how to rank teams. It was football only and just the FBS (I think about 120 …
Read More “Men’s Basketball Exploration or Two Prediction Models, Really?”
Welcome back, oh great and patient college football fans to our 499th episode on this platform. I suppose many of you, like us, see the days of August go by so incredibly slowly as our anticipation grows towards the initial kickoff. Just three more sleeps before the Dublin Ireland game kicks off (noon Eastern on …
Read More “G’s Evaluation or Is This the Last Preseason Episode?”
Welcome back, sports fans, to the initial College Football GCR post of the 2025-26 season. This pre-season, we’ll look at a conference-by-conference look from the weakest average schedule (as calculated by the GCR based on last year’s official ranking and results) to the most challenged average schedule. We start in a few days with the …
Read More “G’s Explanation or Has Conference Realignment Run Its Course?”
Welcome back college sports fans! Since the inception of what would become the GCR (which means Gettys Computer Rankings, fyi) around 2011, it’s been about college football. For those who have never met me, I am much too small-statured to play, but I have always loved football. However, I lived in Charlotte with the original …
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Welcome back to a special edition of G’s Explanation. Each year I like to take some time to understand the postseason picture. The focus has been on the 12-team playoff or the 4-team playoff or the BCS Championship for a couple of decades but there have only been a precious few who have ever had …
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Although there are still 4 games to play in the month of October thanks to Conference USA Tuesday and Wednesday night games, the final full week is done. That means it’s time for the second conference ranking. I added a couple of extra looks this time. ….. Let’s start with the FCS. To do this, …
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Welcome to the newest episode of the GCR (#405 in the series, if you are counting). It’s roughly the midway point of the season (most teams have played 6 games), so it’s a good idea to start thinking through the playoffs, both FBS and FCS. ….. Let’s start with the 12-team FBS playoff. The format …
Welcome to the latest episode of the GCR and a dive into last week vs this week in our very own top 25. Before we do that though, I would like to extend congratulations to the first 2 bowl-eligible teams this season: Indiana (6-0/3) and Miami FL (6-0/5). Miami, by the way, was down 25 …
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