All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Some fun analysis about college football – includes both data and opinion
Hi there, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Unless you’ve turned your phones off to all sports news (or more than usually focused on the Olympics), you’ve heard that Oklahoma and Texas have requested invitations to the SEC, which would create the first super conference. It’s not a lock because it takes 11 existing …
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Hello college football fans! We are in the middle of July with just a few more weeks before the 2021-22 season kicks off. As with every year, I’ve wondered which teams are facing the most challenging schedules and which are, well, not. Before I talk about the top (and bottom) 10, let me spend a …
Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans! It’s been about six months since my last post and I missed the entire spring season. We were dealing with some personal issues and I just couldn’t keep up with the weekly changes with everything on my plate. Apologies to my readers and although New Mexico St …
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Greetings college football fans on the eve of the championship game of the oddest season in memory. Sometimes I am not very bright such as when I promised I would have a comparison of conferences for this crazy season. What was I thinking? The MAC played two games out of conference (both bowl games) while …
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Greetings sports fans! There is one college football game left (at least until the FCS starts their spring schedule) pitting the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Ohio State Buckeyes as the only 2 remaining undefeated teams. We now have to wait and wait until this matchup of long-time bluebloods kicks off. So, to help ease …
Happy New Year, college football fans! All of here at the GCR (ok, me), wish you a safe and uneventful 2021. From a football standpoint, the last few days have been both exciting and disappointing. Exciting because it started with a thriller with Oklahoma St (21) jumping to a 21-0 lead after a single quarter …
Happy holidays oh great and wonderful sports fans. It’s Monday yet again (that means one fewer before retirement) and we’ve already seen 10 bowl games! With the Music City Bowl between Iowa (25) and Missouri (54) cancelled due to a Covid outbreak in Columbia, we will have 8 bowls in the next segment. 2 conferences …
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Happy Sunday, college football fans. Normally on Sunday I post the latest and greatest GCR from 1 to however many have played so far this year. But, there are 2 more games this week. Tonight at 7:30 (all times Eastern), Washington St travels to LA to play Southern Cal. Right now, in Conference USA, W …
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Greetings everyone to what amounts to, in terms of games played, the end of week 1. There have now been 82 college games played through 4 weeks. 2 teams (Texas St and UTEP) have played 4 times while 176 haven’t played yet (that will reduce with the conferences starting later). In all, 81 teams have …
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College Football 2020 (or some semblance of it) is underway and already there have been fireworks! How about the Sun Belt going 3-0 against the Little (Big) 12? If I were a betting man (and long-term readers know I’m not), I would expect to see more upsets than usual this year: practice isn’t the same, …
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