Welcome back to championship week (or round 2 of the FCS playoffs). Yesterday we ranked the FBS conferences and now it’s time to do the same for the FCS brethren. It’s not as complicated as yesterday and no ranting and raving like a lunatic today. In fact, the rank is simply based on the average …
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Welcome back college football fans! Since the regular season is at an end, it’s time for some reflection. Today, we are going to explore the FBS conferences in a little compare and contrast mode: aka, why Tulane shouldn’t get a NYE bowl, but they will anyway. Tomorrow, we’ll look at the FCS conferences as week …
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Happy Wednesday, college football fans, and welcome to a special edition of the GCR as Army has been accepted to join the American Athletic Conference as a football only school next season. The move has little to do with the rivalry with Navy (in fact, the Army/Navy game will continue to be played in week …
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Happy Monday for a special edition of the GCR. So, in the last couple of days it’s come out that a staffer (who was a volunteer until hired in 2022) for Michigan (8-0/1) allegedly bought tickets to games within the Big Ten for teams Michigan had not yet played (11 of them). This is a …
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Happy Wednesday everyone. We’ve almost made it to the last Thursday-Saturday weekend before Conference USA begins it’s Tuesday/Wednesday game schedules. In November we’ll switch to the MAC playing those mid-week games. But it’s still September although we are already though a quarter of the season. There are still 27 undefeated teams left (and, no, the …
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Welcome back, college football fans, with just 4 days before the first games of the 2023-24 season. It’s time to finish up our preseason strength of schedule (PS SOS) analysis with the conference with the highest average score among all 25 Division I conferences. Our next post will be a “what to watch” for week …
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It’s Saturday, college football fans, and not just any Saturday, but the last one before the kickoff of the 2023 season, aka Week 0. It’s a busy week for the GCR team (of one) with today’s next to last conference preview followed by a Tuesday edition to look through the most-challenged conference for this season, …
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Happy Wednesday, sports fans! We made it past this week’s half-time, and with just 10 days left before the opening kickoff for the season, it’s time to review the conference with the 3rd most difficult schedule. And with a little bit of a heavy heart, because it is, most likely, the last pre-season post for …
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Happy Sunday college football fans and welcome to the second installment of the Power 5 previews. Ok, preview is a little strong. It’s really just a comparison of conferences by the GCR’s calculation of a preseason strength of schedule (PS SOS) for each team then averaged for the conferences. We started months ago with the …
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Happy Thursday and, with just 16 days left and 6 blogs to write before week 0 kickoff, the frequency will increase. Of course, that acceleration coincides, as it does every year, with the Power 5 conferences. We’ve tackled the FCS from the lone independent, Kennesaw St, through the 13 conferences, then moved through the 5 …
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