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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 …
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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 …
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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?”
Howdy again, sports fans. A couple of times this season, we’ve explored the conferences – and we will again for the FCS – but the FBS has lots of divisions and they are not created equal. Before we get there, let’s talk about some of the big games yesterday. Michigan (5)/Michigan St (4) was one …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Let’s Check a Few Things Out Before November”
So, oh wonderful sports fans, I’m back in Columbus again this week and trying to figure out what the upsets and close games mean from this past weekend. I have 3 looks for today. The first one is about the GCR predictions. If you recall, before last week, I retooled (reevaluated the regression for your …
Read More “G’s Exploration or We Are Long Overdue for a Deep Dive”
