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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 …
College football is back for a new weekend and it’s a good one. In the new Quality of Game Metric I’m playing with this year, the best possible score is 3.00. That would indicate that every team is playing an opponent at the same tier (Power 5 vs Power 5, Group of 5 vs Group …
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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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. …
Happy Thursday oh great and wonderful college football fans. We are in for our best week yet as conference games abound. As any reader knows, I love numbers so let’s show how much better this week’s games are. This season I started a new thing that measures, for lack of a better term, goodness or …
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 …
Happy Thursday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. As we talked about a little in yesterday’s post, the games are heating up as fast as the pressure on some of the high-expectation programs. ….. The most entertaining games this week are the opening conference games. The ACC has just 1 (Florida St/Boston College), the …
Happy Wednesday and welcome to a late edition of G’s Explanation. Tomorrow, week 3 kicks off and so will the next installment of G’s Expectation. But today is about a few things I noticed about so far this season. First, the SEC may not have the depth it has in the past. Last season the …
Read More “G’s Explanation or A Couple of Things We May Have Already Learned”
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 …
Happy Thursday and welcome to the beginning of week 2. Yesterday, in G’s Explanation, we talked about the still fairly mismatched slate we have in front of us. Tonight’s game, for example, pits FCS Murray St (1-0/110) at Louisville (1-0/47) with a 7:30 (all times Eastern) kickoff on the ACC Network. There are 17 other …
