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Some fun analysis about college football – includes both data and opinion
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”
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 …
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Just Where is the ACC Heading?”
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 …
Welcome back, college football fans, as we finish up the Group of 5 conferences. This final stop is the remnant of the once proud Pac-12, the only conference with a number that changed it to equal the number of teams in the conference (see 18-team Big Ten and 16-team Big 12). At least, until ten …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Future Is Wacky in the West”
Welcome back, college football fans. First, a shoutout to my wife (and JoJo’s mom) of 24 years today! Today’s episode is about the Group of 5 conference that we predict will have the biggest impact on this year’s playoffs, the Sun Belt, 6th most difficult conference in Division I. Not only do they have James …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Is This the Strongest Group of 5 Conference?”
Welcome back, sports fans, as we talk about the 7th most challenged conference that isn’t an actual conference – in fact, there are no games between the teams in this “conference.” Earlier in a post we talked about the two FCS Independent teams that left conference play because they moved to a non-football conference and …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Are There Really Just Two Left Now?”
