All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Some fun analysis about college football – includes both data and opinion
Welcome back, college sports fans, as we continue our football preseason 2026 review. Last time, we talked about some changes in the GCR reporting this year, mostly on frequency of posts, but also about the concept of predicting spread cover as well as straight up winner. After talking with friend and confidante Carl L., we’ve …
Welcome back after a long layoff, oh great and wonderful college sports fans! We’ve spent the last six weeks or so coding the 2026-27 football season in preparation for the preseason and the more than 1600 regular season games. Along the way, we’ve noticed a few oddball and/or interesting bits of data that we will …
Welcome back, college sports fans, to a bittersweet post. On the positive side, we are looking at the data in a way we have not done before – always exciting (at least for us at the GCR). On the flip side, this is our last post of the 2025-26 football/basketball season. After 41 consecutive days …
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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 …
Read More “G’s Explanation or Which Men’s Teams Are Still Contenders to Win Their 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 …
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Conferences Were the Best This Season?”
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Teams Are Going Bowling?”
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Conference is Strongest So Far this Season?”
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Conference Had the Best September?”
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Countdown is (Nearly) Complete”
