G’s Explanation or Which Men’s Teams Are Still Contenders to Win Their Conference?

Welcome back, sports fans as we tackle the 31 men’s conferences’ race for the regular season title. We did this analysis for the women over the weekend and like that version, we will jump right in because there is a lot of data. We will start with the conference calculated as worst in our early …

G’s Explanation or Who Still Has a Shot to Win the Regular Season Title – Conference by Conference

Welcome back, sports fans as we tackle the 31 women’s conferences’ race for the regular season title. We have never tried to do something like this before, so please let us know what you think. Let’s jump right in because there is a lot of data. We will start with the conference calculated as worst …

G’s Exploration or Which Conferences Were the Best This Season?

Welcome back, sports fans, to the bittersweet last planned football post for the season. There are a bunch of conference changes coming up over the offseason as the P12 reloads and those conferences who will lose teams trying to keep their numbers up. Look for a complete analysis on that craziness when the basketball season …

G’s Exploration or Which Teams Are Going Bowling?

Welcome back sports fans. It looks like all 82 bowl spots are filled. We don’t know who is playing where yet, but we do know which teams will be selected. We are not considering the Celebration Bowl which features the champions of the two primary HBCU conferences the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and the South-Western …

G’s Exploration or Which Conference is Strongest So Far this Season?

Welcome to a special episode in which we rank the conferences through the games of last week trying to determine which conference is has demonstrated the most top to bottom depth. This is not a measure of which conferences have the best top teams, or bottom teams, but an overall picture of health across the …

G’s Exploration or Which Conference Had the Best September?

Welcome to a special end of the first month edition we have here at the GCR where we evaluate where the conferences stand. The primary sort is mean GCR rank so top-heavy conferences with little to know middle class will be negatively impacted. This is not about which conference has the strongest top 3, but …

G’s Exploration or The Countdown is (Nearly) Complete

Welcome back college football fans to the GCR’s 498th episode since starting this blog. Prior to that the episodes were sent via email to a very small number of people. At the midweek mark, we will have a special episode summing up the preseason Strength of Schedule (SOS) rankings and some other cuts of the …

G’s Exploration or Let the Controversy Begin

Welcome back college football fans to the latest episode in our annual preseason strength of schedule (SOS) countdown by conference. Since our third-most-difficult conference, the ACC, episode published last Sunday, both the Coaches’ and the AP polls have dropped. I’ve seen a ton of comparisons between these, our final two conferences: the SEC and the …

G’s Exploration or Just Where is the ACC Heading?

Welcome back, sports fans, for the 496th episode of the GCR as we talk about the 3rd most challenged conference in college football, the 17-team ACC. We are just 13 days away from the first game of the season and our annual preseason countdown is nearly complete. ….. I mentioned in a previous episode that …

G’s Exploration or Welcome to the Final 4!

Howdy, oh great and wonderful college football fans. It’s August, teams are in camp, and the weather has even turned a bit fall-like, although here in the South, summer will be back with a vengeance at least one more time. We are just 17 days from the first game which will feature two teams from …