G’s Exploration or Can You Believe How Many Conference Changes There Are This Year?

Greetings, oh great and wonderful College Football Fans. I know the Major League season is only 1/3 of the way through and the NBA/NHL are still playing, but it’s time to kick off another season of everyone’s, or rather my, favorite blog. We are 89 days from the week 0 games and the time is …

G’s Exploration or Which FBS Conferences Ruled Supreme in 2022?

Happy Saturday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. We are in recruiting/coaching replacement/prepping for conference realignment/NFL playoff mode lately, and the GCR will soon be working solely on getting ready for next season. Today’s blog is all about the final FBS conference rankings for 2022 and my final (maybe, who knows for sure) post …

G’s Exploration or Let’s Rank the FCS Conferences

Happy Sunday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Today we are going to explore the FCS and figure out which conferences were the best (one has to give the initial nod to the Missouri Valley Conference who had both teams in the finals, but we’ll see what the data show). The next post will …

G’s Exploration or Let’s Recap the January Bowl Games

I didn’t post yesterday because, like most football fans everywhere, I was consumed with the collapse of Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills Monday night. As we all have him, his family, and his teammates in our thoughts and prayers, we remember that football is a game and entertainment. Injuries happen and sometimes we are …

G’s Exploration or How Do the FBS Conferences Stack Up?

Happy Wednesday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. It’s been a while since I’ve had a post all about the statistics. Well, you are in luck today if you like that kind of thing (and who wouldn’t?). With the bowl games right around the corner, and it being time for a conference comparison, I …

G’s Exploration or You’ll Never Guess the Strongest Conference

Yesterday, oh great and wonderful fans, I dedicated the post to the FCS as it should be during their rivalry week (btw, Lehigh and Lafayette are playing for the 158th time since 1884 – the most-played rivalry in college football). That said, tonight is about the senior circuit and the overdue conference analysis complete with …

G’s Exploration or Let’s Talk about the FCS

Happy Thursday everyone. I talk about the FBS in nearly every post, but not tonight. We are beginning rivalry week for the FCS, the last week of the regular season, and preparing for the FCS playoffs. First, let’s look at how the FCS conferences line up. I looked at overall records, non-conference records, and average …

G’s Exploration or The Final Preseason Post

Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans as we are a week away from the first game of the 2022-23 season. At noon (all times Eastern), Austin Peay, of the FCS ASUN league, will invade Conference USA’s W Kentucky in Bowling Green, Kentucky (not to be confused with the MACs Bowling Green in Bowling …

G’s Exploration or We’re Down to the Penultimate Preseason SOS Conference

Welcome back college football fans. We’re getting close now: the NFL preseason is teasing us and college camps are in session. There’s some trash talking already and, my absolute favorite: the initial AP poll is out and the pundits are simultaneously saying it’s ridiculous to have a preseason poll (they are right) and why this …

G’s Exploration or Which Conference Is Third in Scheduling?

Welcome back oh great and wonderful college football fans! So far, we’ve reviewed 23 Division I conferences, including the independents, from the Pioneer League through the 4th most difficult conference (as measured by the GCR Preseason Strength of Schedule algorithm), the ACC. There are just 3 left and 16 days until the initial kickoffs of …