G’s Expectation or It’s Time for the Boca Raton Bowl

Welcome back, college football fans. Tuesday, in the Frisco Bowl, Marshall jumped out to a 14-0 lead before UTSA decided to start playing. It was all Roadrunners at the end with UTSA taking the title, 35-17. ….. Tonight at 8:00 Eastern, we have the Boca Raton Bowl in Florida with South Florida (6-6/108) of the …

G’s Expectation or Who Wins the Frisco Bowl?

Welcome back, college football fans. What a game we had yesterday afternoon. Vegas had Old Dominion (6-7/99) as 5-point favorites over W Kentucky (8-5/75), but the GCR picked WKY in the upset. Imagine my disappointment when Old Dominion took a 28-0 lead with 13:38 in the first half. My despair was palpable, but I was …

G’s Expectation or The Bahamas Bowl in North Carolina?

Welcome back sports fans! Yesterday was the last of the FCS game in 2024 (championship in January) and the beginning of the 24-25 bowl season. Let’s take a quick review, starting with the FCS. ….. Congratulations to Florida A&M (12-1/124) who won the Celebration Bowl by defeating Howard (6-6/181) thus becoming the de facto HBCU …

G’s Expectation or The First Day of Bowl Games is Here!

Happy Friday, oh great and wonderful sports fans. I hope you’ve read about the FCS and are ready for some bowl action. ….. At the GCR, bowl season is a little unique. Since August, we had one Expectation for the week to predict every game: sometimes over 130 of them. But during bowl season, we …

G’s Expectation or What’s Happening in the FCS this weekend?

Welcome back college football fans! This is the first of two Expectations today and will focus just on the FCS which has 3 very important games this weekend. ….. First, in the first semifinal, which kicked off about 22 minutes ago, pits the only remaining east coast team representing the Colonial Athletic Conference, Albany Great …

G’s Expectation or the Final Game of the FBS Regular Season

Each year, in the week following the FBS conference championships, we have the Army/Navy game where college kids who don’t get to opt to stay in school for their 5th, 6th, 7th seasons and who become active duty officers in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps to serve this nation with bravery and sacrifice, play …

G’s Expectation or Who Wins Championship Week

Happy Friday, college football fans! If you are a Power 5 or Group of 5 fan, welcome to championship weekend. If you are an FCS fan, welcome to the second round of the playoffs and championship for the SWAC conference. If you, like me, are just a college football fan, welcome to both! ….. There …

G’s Expectation or Who Wins Rivalry Week?

Happy Tuesday sports fans for the last MACNation week of 2023. I’ll wait while you grab some tissue. This season has been a grind. The FCS is done except for a couple of games in the SWAC conference and the first round of the playoffs (more to come on that). ….. Last week, the GCR …

G’s Expectation or Who Wins in Week 12?

Happy Week 12, oh great and wonderful college football fans. This week we see the last regular season games for the FCS, except for a couple from the SWAC next week. And we have our last games before rivalry week! Last week, the old GCR had some good and bad predictions for sure, like picking …

G’s Expectation or Who Keeps Their Zero?

Welcome to week 11, college football fans. I cannot believe there are just 3 weeks left in the regular season (well, except for Army/Navy). Last week was a whopper and the GCR had good and bad bits of the prognostication component. The FCS games were the most successful with the algorithm picking the winner 42 …