G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 after Week 5

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 …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 for Week 4

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. …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 for Week 3

Happy Sunday and welcome back after a very exciting (and stressful for some teams) week. There will be more later in the next installment of G’s Explanation, but as a teaser, the GCR top 25 going into this week was 21-3 with Southern Cal sitting idle. The losers were Kansas St (then 12) to then …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 after Week 2

Happy Sunday and I hope you get some rest today after an exhilarating day of college football. Numerous FCS teams (Holy Cross/Boston College, Youngstown St/Ohio St, New Hampshire/C Michigan, E Illinois/Bowling Green, Charleston/Clemson, E Kentucky/Kentucky, Furman/South Carolina, Florida A&M/South Florida, Morgan St/Akron and E Washington/Fresno St) put some scare into their FBS opponents, at least …

G’s Evaluation or Week 1 Rankings

I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend of college football. There were some surprises, upsets, blowouts, key injuries, coaching controversy, and, sadly, some arrests. Pretty typical first week stuff, overall. Remember as you peruse the list below, it’s just week one so not a lot of data point to truly differentiate. I’ll post another …

G’s Evaluation or the Final Top 261 for 2022-23

Welcome back to the final ranking for this season. First, a quick story: I was getting ready to write this yesterday and found that there were computer issues that, you know, didn’t let me open any files at all. Call out to Everything Computers on Canton Road in Marietta for doing his magic to correct …

G’s Evaluation or Who Are the Final Top 4?

Happy Sunday, college football fans. The regular season (except for the Army/Navy game next week) is over and it’s time to shift to bowl games. Congratulations to the conference (and FCS playoff game) winners. Celebrate and watch for bowl game assignments to start dropping today. But the key thing everybody is thinking about is who …

G’s Evaluation or What a Rivalry Week!

Happy Sunday, college football fans! Here’s a stat that shows just how weird yesterday was: for teams that had already clinched a spot in their respective conference championship games, UTSA, TCU, Georgia, Fresno St, Boise St, and Tulane won this week. But Toledo lost to W Michigan (5-7), Coastal Carolina lost to James Madison (8-3) …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 For Week 12

What a Saturday, college football fans! Georgia (11-0/1) beat Kentucky (6-5/44) on the road 16-6 in a game that wasn’t put away until a missed field goal by the Wildcats due to a bad snap late in the 4th. Ohio St (11-0/2) put Maryland (6-5/42) away 43-30 but it was a one-score game until a …

G’s Evaluation or The Top 261 for Week 11

Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans. Who would have thought at this point in the season, UCONN and Kansas would be bowl eligible while Oklahoma, Memphis, Miami FL, BYU, App St and Arkansas still need another victory to claim a spot. Or that Texas A&M would be the first SEC team to get …