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Some fun analysis about college football – includes both data and opinion
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 731 which is all about football conference comparisons. This is something we do at the end of each month. We’ve been talking about taking some of the simplification of how we approach basketball into football in the future, but this is a football thing that we think is …
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Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 721 which is, almost, all about basketball. First, G is getting older and forgot to mention that JoJo was able to travel to her school’s (Chattanooga) bitter rival (W Carolina) in a wonderful personal tradition. One of her best friends, M, is graduating WCAR in December, as is …
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Welcome back, college football fans, for episode 698 or our September edition, and first of the season, Conference Comparison. This analysis has been part of the GCR for years, and, as always, we constantly tweak it for continuous improvement. The biggest change this season is clarification around Top 25/Bottom 10 teams. There is more detail …
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Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 673 which is the summary of our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown as we are but two days away from the first games of the season. If you are just joining us, here’s the good news: everything we talked about (less a few editorial comments) are in …
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 672 and our most-challenged conference in our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown. On July 7th in episode 647, we introduced this year’s PS-SOS countdown and started with #25 Pioneer League (PS-SOS of 3.341 and an average team rank of 244.4 out of 266 teams) on July 9th. …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Almost Done, Time for Number One!”
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 671 and the penultimate in our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown for all 25 Division I (D1) conferences. We started with the Pioneer League, who plays the overall least-challenging schedule this season and have made it through to number two. With only 7 days left before the …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Want to Guess Who is Sitting at Number Two?”
Welcome back, college sports fans, to episode 670 as we continue to countdown th7.e 25 Division I (D1) conferences from least-challenged to most-challenged using our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) metric. So far, we’ve completed the 14 FCS (non-bowl eligible conferences such as SoCon, Big Sky, Missouri Valley, Ivy, and so on) before moving to …
Read More “G’s Exploration or What a Day to Be in Search of Number Three!”
Welcome back, oh great and wonderful sports fans, to episode #669. As long-time reader and really good friend Carl L. pointed out, we are past the 2/3 of the way to 1000 mark! We estimate we’ll be around 850 at the end of March Madness in April (the end of our fiscal season). That assumes …
Read More “G’s Exploration or It’s Time for More, Bring on Number Four!”
Welcome back, sports fans, to episode 668 of the GCR as we continue our 2026 preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown for all of Division I (D1). We started back on July 9 with the least-challenged conference (#25 Pioneer League), worked our way through the 14 FCS conferences, and moved to the FBS. So far, …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Look Alive, We’re at Number Five!”
Welcome back, college football fans, to episode 667 since we began this platform. With just 15 days remaining before the first games of the season, we are moving forward with our preseason strength of schedule (PS-SOS) countdown or the 25 conferences (more on that word later). We started with the 14 FCS conferences (Big Sky, …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Team Is the Hardest to Classify?”
