G’s Expectation or Our First Full Day of Bowls

Greetings oh wonderful college football fans from Starkville Mississippi where we brought our daughter today to announce she is attending Mississippi St in the fall. I guess now I will have to pull for the Bulldogs (at least when they aren’t playing the Gamecocks) for a few years. It’s been an exciting day, but tomorrow …

G’s Expectation or There’s Some More Bad News

I reach out to you today, oh wonderful college football fans, with a bit of a heavy heart. Two more bowls were cancelled due to Covid outbreaks. Virginia won’t be able to field a team which nullifies the inaugural Fenway Bowl in Boston leaving SMU at home. And one of tomorrow’s games, the Military Bowl …

G’s Expectation or Merry Christmas!

Not to single out any holiday and the safest and happiest of all the winter holidays (from Channukah to Ramadan, Saturnalia to Kwanzaa, Solstice to Tet, and any I left out) from all of us here (that would be me) at the GCR massive server room (aka my laptop). I didn’t post yesterday because I …

G’s Expectation or It’s Thursday!!

Happy Thursday college football fans and I hope you are somewhere safe, healthy, and warm. Rumors are flying over Texas A&M’s replacement in the Gator Bowl with Rutgers (first in line in APR) or a substitute Big Ten team (Illinois has expressed interest). I’ll try to stay on top of it since I know the …

G’s Expectation or Winter 2021

Hello once again oh wonderful college football fans. Let’s start with the Texas A&M dropping out of the Gator Bowl vs Wake Forest. Look, COVID is once again wreaking havoc with all sports at all levels, and that’s a significant part of the Aggies’ issue. They also have some injuries. They also have opt-outs which …

G’s Expectation or The Bowl Games of December 21

Hello college football fans to the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. To steal from a friend’s meme: it only gets brighter from here. Yesterday there was just the one game in which Tulsa 7-6 (73) ran all over Old Dominion 6-7 (134). The Monarchs got the game off to an incredible …

G’s Exploration or We Get Another Bowl Game Today!

Hello oh great and wonderful. We do have the Myrtle Beach Bowl (in Conway, SC, not Myrtle Beach, but what’s a few miles between friends), but before we get to that discussion, let’s recap Saturday’s game and check the bowl standings. We’ll start with the FCS. In the second semifinal Montana St 12-2 (82) used …

G’s Exploration or Welcome to Bowl Games Day 2

Hello football fans! Yesterday we kicked off bowl season with a trio of games (ok, one was an FCS semifinal to be specific) where we saw Middle Tennessee 7-6 (111) come from behind to upset Toledo 7-6 (112) 31-24 followed by Coastal Carolina 11-2 (29) come from behind to avoid being upset by N Illinois …

G’s Expectation or Kickoff to the Bowl Season

Greetings oh wonderful college football fans. The wait is over and the bowl season has officially begun. We kick off with the Bahamas Bowl in Nassau between Middle Tennessee 6-6 (124) and Toledo 7-5 (100). Toledo is currently holding on to a 17-14 advantage with 2:16 to go in the third. Vegas thinks Toledo is …

G’s Expectation or Just 5 Games Today

Happy Saturday to all of the college football fans out there. For many of us today is a bit of break after the FBS conference championship games and the bowl games, but today is the annual Army-Navy game – the last regular season game every year. On top of that the FCS quarterfinals for the …