Ranking and analysis for all 261 Division I football teams
Welcome back sports fans. Last night in the Boca Raton Bowl, the GCR had what has to be the biggest miss of the season. Syracuse (6-7/83) was favored by 3 over South Florida (7-6/100) who has one of the worst passing defenses in the country. The GCR actually calculated for Syracuse to win by 5 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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What a championship week! One previously undefeated team fell as Georgia (12-1/7) lost to Alabama (12-1/4). Michigan (13-0/1), Florida St (13-0/2), Washington (13-0/3), Liberty (13-0/10), and South Dakota St (12-0/102) remain. Next week, we only have 5 games: Army/Navy and the quarterfinals of the FCS Playoffs. ….. If the GCR drove the Playoff selection, we …
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 …
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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