G’s Exploration: Update on the Virginia Shooting

To the grieving college football community and especially to the shock and pain the University of Virginia is feeling, this latest shooting involving a school is many too many. An ex-player at Virginia shot and killed 3 current football players as well as wounding 2 other students. He has been apprehended and perhaps we will …

G’s Explanation or How Is This Bowl Season Filling Out?

Happy Humpday, college football fans. We are approaching Halloween which brings us some great rivalry games like Michigan/Michigan St and Georgia/Florida, and it also brings us close to November when the MAC goes wonky on us (in a wonderful and fantastic way) with Tuesday and Wednesday games for a month. That means in November we …

G’s Explanation or Let’s Play Comparison

Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans and welcome to Monday night. I thought tonight we’d explore both conferences and divisions (FBS only). In the data, I’ve ranked each (two different tables) by average ranking. I’ve also added how many undefeated teams and one-loss teams are still around for each. Then, the best and …

G’s Exploration or Which Conferences Are the Early Leaders (and Which Are NOT)?

Happy Sunday night to the billions of GCR readers. Yes, I’m a little tired after the drive back from Starkville. We start this week by reporting another Power 5 head coaching job is open. Georgia Tech joins Nebraska and Arizona St in the early head coach hunt. Interestingly each came after a Group of 5 …

G’s Explanation or Can You Say Crash?

Last week, oh great and wonderful college football fans, the Sun Belt East took the football world by storm? However, like any Cinderella story, the clock does strike midnight. Ga Southern (2-1/80) took out Nebraska (and their head coach) last week only to fall to Conference USA’s UAB (2-1/69) 35-21. Marshall (2-1/82) upset Notre Dame …

G’s Explanation or How One Division Can Change Everything

I hope all of you are getting some rest from the hectic day yesterday. In today’s G’s Evaluation, I mentioned Upsets but wanted to go into a bit more detail with that. There are 26 conferences in Division I, 11 in the FBS (if you count the Independents as a conference), and some are broken …

G’s Explanation or How Do the Conferences Look after Week 1?

Earlier today I released the first GCR ranking of the season which is both fun and, frankly, a little silly. On the one hand it’s just one game. On the other hand, it’s 8.5-11% of the season. I expect a great deal of change in the coming weeks with some stability usually hitting in mid-October. …

G’s Explanation or What Did We Learn in Week 0?

Greetings and happy Monday! Last Saturday, we had the feeling of relief when college football finally restarted. While there were only 14 games, there were some pretty interesting storylines. Let’s jump in: ….. In the FCS/FCS games, Steph F Austin and Jacksonville St met and the Gamecocks (JAX) trounced the Lumberjacks (SFA) 42-17 in a …

G’s Exploration or Part Drei of Our Preseason SOS Study

Greetings to all you college football fans out there. The last two posts showed up the six easiest conferences by SOS (preseason as determined based on opponents’ 2021 records). This time we’ll look at the next 3, still all FCS. I’m going to leave the country in a few days so I’m going to try …

G’s Explanation or What Took So Long?

Hello, oh great and patient college football fans. The last few weeks have been crazy insane in the ol’ G life (day job, home responsibilities, soon to be 18-year-old daughter, learning new songs for the band – shameless plug during an apology for Project Detour Band on all kinds of social media). That’s no excuse, …