Happy Independence Day Eve, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Now that we are in July, the days are getting shorter, despite the heat, there’s a promise of fall, and we are just 54 days until the season kicks off. We are nearly finished with the FCS portion of the annual Preseason Strength of […]
Category: G’s Exploration
Some fun analysis about college football – includes both data and opinion
Hello oh patient and wonderful college football fans! It’s been a long few weeks for dear old G whose day job has been a series of 14-hour days, but we are in good shape now and about to be to steady state allowing me to focus on the important things in life, aka the wonderful […]
Happy Saturday college football fans. Today, we are going to explore the Division I conferences with the 19th and 18th most difficult schedules. We are reaching the middle tier for the FCS with 6 already talked about and 6 more coming in future posts. As a reminder, FCS schools have an average Preseason Strength of […]
Happy Sunday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. We are 76 days away from the 2023 kickoff and we still have tons of conferences to talk through. So far we’ve seen the 4 weakest (and, yes, for this exercise, I count the silly schedule of the 1-team FCS Independent Kennesaw St as one) conferences. […]
Sorry for the delay, oh great and patient college football fans, it was a LONG week and I just didn’t have the time to get a post out. So, this weekend will be a twofer, as we look at the 23rd and 22nd most challenged conferences based on an estimate of this year’s strength of […]
Happy Sunday and welcome back to the 2023 GCR. It’s time to begin our analysis of the upcoming season and, as we do every year, we’ll start with the conferences with the weakest expected strength of schedule (SOS). Before we jump in, let’s review how the analysis is done. ….. Preseason SOS is based on […]
Greetings, oh great and wonderful College Football Fans. I know the Major League season is only 1/3 of the way through and the NBA/NHL are still playing, but it’s time to kick off another season of everyone’s, or rather my, favorite blog. We are 89 days from the week 0 games and the time is […]
Happy Saturday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. We are in recruiting/coaching replacement/prepping for conference realignment/NFL playoff mode lately, and the GCR will soon be working solely on getting ready for next season. Today’s blog is all about the final FBS conference rankings for 2022 and my final (maybe, who knows for sure) post […]
Happy Sunday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Today we are going to explore the FCS and figure out which conferences were the best (one has to give the initial nod to the Missouri Valley Conference who had both teams in the finals, but we’ll see what the data show). The next post will […]
I didn’t post yesterday because, like most football fans everywhere, I was consumed with the collapse of Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills Monday night. As we all have him, his family, and his teammates in our thoughts and prayers, we remember that football is a game and entertainment. Injuries happen and sometimes we are […]