G’s Exploration or Have We Learned Anything So Far?

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, …

G’s Exploration or Then There Were 77(ish)

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: …

G’s Exploration or What 2020 (Sh)Could Have Been

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). …

G’s Exploration or Let’s Take a Pause

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 …

G’s Exploration or Part 11 of the Preseason SOS aka Easiest Power 5 Conference

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 …

G’s Exploration or The Last of the Group of 5

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 …

G’s Exploration or Part VIII of the Preseason Strength of Schedule Study

This is not a political blog – and it won’t be today either. I haven’t posted in a week, in part because there are many things more important than a theoretical SOS for a season that may or may not happen and in part because my work notched up substantially (that’s a really happy and …

G’s Exploration or Let’s Shift into Mid-Majors

Greetings oh great and wonderful readers!! Happy Saturday and I hope you have a safe Memorial Day weekend. Last time, in part VI of the series, we finalized the FCS teams. I know, I know, when are we getting to the conferences I’ve at least heard of? In college basketball there are major conferences (football’s …

G’s Exploration or Part VI – End of the FCS (For Now)

Happy Hump Day, everybody!!! This will be a bit shorter than the others. Instead of a conference by conference view, we will summarize the FCS as a league (or sub-division if you really want to get technical). Here is the top to bottom list with 2020 overall numbers (and FCS specific) as well as 2019 …