All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Some fun analysis about college football – includes both data and opinion
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or We’ve Finished the First Round of Bowl Games”
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Isn’t about Time for One of These”
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Is This Week 1 or Week 4 or I Don’t Know?”
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, …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Have We Learned Anything So Far?”
Hello college football fans. I know you’ve been following the cancellations/ postponements/ threats to change conferences or to play independents schedules etc., just as I have. And, like me, you’ve probably been trying to keep up with the status. So here it is as of August 15 at 2:38pm Eastern. Let’s start with the FCS: …
Greetings and welcome to August, aka level 8 of 2020. The major conferences have made their “final” scheduling decisions despite conflicts between conferences and threats of multiple player hold outs. Next time, I’m going to summarize all of the mess (hoping to hear some more from the Group of 5 and FCS conferences by then). …
Read More “G’s Exploration or What 2020 (Sh)Could Have Been”
It’s been close to 2 weeks since my post about the ACC’s schedule. First, apologies for not being quicker in the schedule series. A lot has happened since then in…I was about to say in the world of college football, but we all know it’s broader than that. This post is outside of the series …
Greetings everyone! I hope you are having a good a weekend and managing to stay safe. After months of toiling through the lesser conferences, we have finally hit the big boys – the conferences where we can expect teams to play difficult opponents more times than not. Conferences where the patsy game is a week …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Part 11 of the Preseason SOS aka Easiest Power 5 Conference”
Well, college football fans, another week (or so) has gone by and here we are again – getting to talk about the best sport in the world. Some schools are starting to have players and coaches hit by Covid. A friend asked me if the GCR was going to do a post on that (pretty …
