G’s Exploration or The Most Challenged FCS Conference

Happy Sunday, college football fans, and I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing 4th of July weekend. This episode will finish up the FCS conferences. Now, I know many of you are not exactly into the FCS, but I posit to you that this conference is one of the best in football. The weakest …

G’s Exploration or Lucky 13!

Welcome oh great and wonderful college football fans from the lovely confines of Memphis where the heat index was 113 today! But in this episode we are talking about the penultimate FCS conference from a pre-season strength of schedule view. ….. The 9-team Southern Conference (or SoCon) has 8 teams playing Core 4 (used to …

G’s Exploration or We’re in the Top 15!

Welcome back, college football fans, as the GCR is trying to catch up after a couple of really busy weeks. Today we are focusing on the conference with the 15th most challenging schedule (4th in the FCS) mostly due to challenging road schedules. Seven games against Core 4 (used to be Power 5) teams including …

G’s Exploration or The 16th Most Difficult Conference

Welcome back a day late, sports fans. I’ve been fortunate to have traveled all over the world and I’ve seen a lot of weird things at airports. Last night, after weather delays taking off, our plane was held up just 6 feet from the gate due to a sinkhole. Yes, a sinkhole at the Atlanta …

G’s Exploration or The 17th Most Difficult Conference

Happy Father’s Day to all those who have been called “dad” by anyone. It’s been an exceptionally great one for me and I hope for you as well. In this episode we are going to talk about the 17th most difficult conference by preseason Strength of Schedule (PS SOS), aka the 9th easiest, aka the …

G’s Exploration or The 17th Most Difficult Conference in 2024

Happy Wednesday, oh great and wonderful college football fans, and greetings from lovely Markham, Ontario. Yes, the GCR is international again this episode! So grab your poutine, turn the hockey game on and enjoy the GCR, eh? ….. Number 17 is the 9-team United Athletic Conference which is a merger of the Western Athletic Conference …

G’s Exploration or the 19th Most Difficult Conference in 2024

Happy Saturday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Today we are just 11 weeks and 19 conferences away from the opening weekend (August 24th). You can check out every past blog at http://bit.ly/2019GCR. We are roughly halfway through the FCS and are still on schedule! This week we are looking at the #19 in …

G’s Exploration or We’re in the Top 20!

Greetings, oh great and wonderful football fans, from just north of Toronto! Yes, the GCR is international for the next little bit of time. This post will be incredibly short because the conference in the 20th most difficult average schedule isn’t really a conference at all. If it were, it would be the only one …

G’s Exploration or #21

Happy Saturday, college football fans, as we turn the calendar to June. Just 12 weeks from today, the season kicks off with week 0 and we will be underway. In the meantime, we have 21 more conferences to talk about. Today is the Southwestern Athletic Conference, or SWAC, the other FCS Historically Black College and …