G’s Expectation or A Trio of Undefeated Games in October?

Happy Wednesday and welcome to the inaugural Conference USA October weekday games. Beginning this year, they are taking a page from the MAC, who plays most of their games on either Tuesday or Wednesday for the month of November, by doing the same for October. That means that starting today, there will be a college …

G’s Exploration or The Most-Challenged FCS Conferences

Happy Friday, college football fans, as we continue to experience the last month of the year without college football. Today, we finish up our analysis of the FCS conferences by preseason SOS (PS SOS) based on last year’s results for this year’s opponents. We started with Kennesaw St as the lone FCS independent, who also …

G’s Expectation or What to Watch in Week 8

Greetings oh great and faithful college football fans. After a wonderful and exciting Week 7 that not only gave us 3 games between undefeated teams, but also gave us our first upset week (more on that in a minute) of the season, we have a more…pedestrian Week 8. But never fear, there are some good …

G’s Gameshots or A Few Game Pics

Welcome to a special edition of the GCR blog. First, and most important, if you are in the path of Hurricane Ian, please be safe. A few games have been impacted already: South Carolina St/South Carolina was moved to Thursday, E Washington/Florida and SMU/UCF were moved to Sunday, East Carolina/South Florida became a neutral game …

G’s Expectation or What to Watch During the Long Labor Day Weekend

Greetings, oh great and wonderful fans, we are finally at a full week of college football. Last week’s 14 games were a great warmup that delivered what they should have. But now, it’s all in. 131 games over 5 days should keep us all pretty busy. Of the 261 Division I teams, only 13 aren’t …

G’s Exploration or Let’s Check a Few Things Out Before November

Howdy again, sports fans. A couple of times this season, we’ve explored the conferences – and we will again for the FCS – but the FBS has lots of divisions and they are not created equal. Before we get there, let’s talk about some of the big games yesterday. Michigan (5)/Michigan St (4) was one …

G’s Exploration or Preseason Schedule Rankings

Hello college football fans! We are in the middle of July with just a few more weeks before the 2021-22 season kicks off. As with every year, I’ve wondered which teams are facing the most challenging schedules and which are, well, not. Before I talk about the top (and bottom) 10, let me spend a …

Game Pics

Iowa at Michigan – Jim Harvey Auburn at Florida – Jason Loccisano Michigan State at Ohio State – Wynn Johnson South Carolina at Georgia – Michael Gettys via Twitter Iowa at Northwestern – John Luth Great vantage point for Florida/Vanderbilt – Jason Loccisano NC State at Georgia Tech – Dan Scothorn