Happy Tuesday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. We are in for a treat, especially this late in the season. There’s a lot to talk about in this crazy year, so let’s jump in. Last week, the GCR was 35-20 (.636) straight up for Power 5 games which brings the season to a disappointing …
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Wow, oh great and wonderful college football fans! As if this season didn’t have enough rollercoaster rides in it, we had last minute comebacks (Stanford, Oklahoma St, Florida, Washington, et al) and blowout upsets (Pittsburgh, FAU, Iowa St, Arizona, et al) and first-time losers (Southern Cal, Oregon, Louisville), and we even had a first-time winner …
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Happy Tuesday college football fans! It’s an early start this week (and for the next 2 months, so maybe September just had late starts). There are 3 games on the docket tonight. First, in a game already in action, in a Conference-USA conference game Middle Tennessee (1-5/97) is hosting LA Tech (3-4/133) and is leading …
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What an exciting weekend, oh great and wonderful college football fans. 6 of our FBS and 1 of our FCS undefeated teams took one on the chin leaving us with 14 and 2, respectively. We all know that means a shakeup in the GCR Top 261. ….. Our top 4 are very Big Ten heavy. …
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As anyone who has read this blog for any length of time, I try very hard not to discuss politics or anything outside of college football. There are exceptions. School shootings (at all levels) are out of control (not that there is a number other than 0 that is in control). Last year the Virginia …
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Happy Wednesday and welcome to the inaugural Conference USA October weekday games. Beginning this year, they are taking a page from the MAC, who plays most of their games on either Tuesday or Wednesday for the month of November, by doing the same for October. That means that starting today, there will be a college …
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Happy Sunday after a wonderful set of games this weekend! Another week of last-minute heroics, upsets, teams that seemed to forget what game they were playing, and just…fun. We have a new set of playoff teams. If the season ended today, and the selection committee used the GCR, Texas would face Oklahoma and Michigan would …
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College football is back for a new weekend and it’s a good one. In the new Quality of Game Metric I’m playing with this year, the best possible score is 3.00. That would indicate that every team is playing an opponent at the same tier (Power 5 vs Power 5, Group of 5 vs Group …
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Happy Wednesday everyone. We’ve almost made it to the last Thursday-Saturday weekend before Conference USA begins it’s Tuesday/Wednesday game schedules. In November we’ll switch to the MAC playing those mid-week games. But it’s still September although we are already though a quarter of the season. There are still 27 undefeated teams left (and, no, the …
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Happy Sunday college football fans! Just…wow! What a bunch of great games with surprising upsets, comeback and last-minute wins, and overtime drama. I will have a post tomorrow talking through all of this and later this week look for an Exploration on the strength of the conferences since we just hit the 1/4 season mark. …
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