It’s Thursday!!!! Only 1 more day (and 2 college games) before Saturday!! What could possibly be more exciting?!?! I’m watching Houston’s debut this year hosting 2-1 Tulane (60). Tulane just went up 14-7 with their second defensive TD of the 1st quarter. I didn’t say 2 good football games before Saturday . Tomorrow is the …
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Happy Sunday college football fans and welcome to 2020s first GCR published rankings. How, you may but probably won’t ask, can you publish when some teams haven’t played yet and some have only played 1 game? Well, it all comes down to the shower. No, not TMI at all, it’s just I tend to think …
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Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans. There are 35 games on the schedule this weekend (less than half a normal year slate), but it’s a new 2020 record so let’s get excited about it!!! Only two games were postponed for this week: Rice at Marshall and Troy at South Alabama (there were 6 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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: …
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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). …
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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 …
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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 …
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For everyone who qualifies, Happy Father’s Day! I hope you are having a day to do what you want to. I know it’s been a long time since my last post, so I am taking the time to do what I want today and finish up the Group of 5. This will be short and …
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