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Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans. We made it to August! In just 23 days our early games (look for the matchup info coming later on) kick off and the greatest time of the year will begin. As a reminder, the GCR does not have preseason rankings, which require bias, so every team …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Who Has the Second Easiest Power 5 Schedule?”
Greetings and welcome to Part IX of our Preseason SOS review. We are starting our deep dive into the Power 5 conferences. These are supposed to be the premier league of college football. Let’s see how this plays out. Last year, there were 12 FCS wins over FBS schools. Most were over G5 schools including …
Welcome back, College Football Fans, to our eighth installment of Preseason SOS. This time we will be finishing up the Group of 5 with the final two conferences who play the most difficult G5 schedules in the country. As a reminder, the average FBS (Power 5 and G5) PS SOS is 7.348 and the average …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Who Plays the Toughest Group of 5 Schedule?”
We are nearing the end of our SOS analysis prior to the season so that we can look forward to weeks 0 and 1. As of today, we are just 33 days away from the initial set of kickoffs, but that’s a blog coming in a couple of weeks. There are just 9 conferences (if …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Teams Who Challenge Themselves and The Not So Much”
Welcome back college football fans. I had a great 3-week vacation in Europe which thankfully was between heat waves. It’s brutal out there so please stay hydrated and cool. I didn’t lug my laptop around or I would have posted while traveling since…WTH is going on with expansion? Southern Cal and UCLA decide to ditch …
Read More “G’s Exploration or What Happened While I Was in Europe?”
Happy Friday College Football Fans, we’ve been reviewing the GCR’s Preseason SOS by conference for the upcoming season. We’ve looked at 12 FCS conferences so far and now we are finishing this league up with the most 3 competitive conferences. Let’s jump right in. ….. Big Sky Conference had 5 of its 12 returning members …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Final FCS Preseason SOS Conferences”
Happy Thursday, college football fans and with 65 days until opening kickoff of the opening games, the excitement is becoming real. Just 10 more Fridays to get through. Maybe I can make it. It makes it necessary to get through theses Preseason SOS blogs (13 more counting this one) so that we can be ready …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Part Shi (4) Pre-Season SOS Analysis”
Welcome back oh great and awesome college football fans. Last time, we started a study into expected strength of schedules (SOS) by conference from easiest to hardest. We looked at the 3…least challenged conferences, Pioneer, Ivy, and Northeast and now we are going to dive into the 23rd to the 21st most difficult conferences. As …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Conference Pre-Season SOS Analysis (Part 2)”
Welcome back to the next installment of the 2022 College Football Prep. For those who are new, just forgotten, or are on vacation, the GCR looks at all Division I conferences. There are five Power 5 conferences (ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, and the SEC) plus the oddball Notre Dame who isn’t connected to …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Conferences Have the Easiest Schedule?”
Greetings and happy start to the GCR preseason ramp up, oh great and wonderful college football fans. With 261 (+3 from 2021) teams across 26 conferences (sort of +1) and 16 realignments, it seemed it might be time to kick it up a little early this year. The first games are coming up at the …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Are There Any Conference Changes in 2022?”
