All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Greetings to all you college football fans out there. The last two posts showed up the six easiest conferences by SOS (preseason as determined based on opponents’ 2021 records). This time we’ll look at the next 3, still all FCS. I’m going to leave the country in a few days so I’m going to try …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Part Drei of Our Preseason SOS Study”
Welcome back oh great and awesome college football fans. Last time, we started a study into expected strength of schedules (SOS) by conference from easiest to hardest. We looked at the 3…least challenged conferences, Pioneer, Ivy, and Northeast and now we are going to dive into the 23rd to the 21st most difficult conferences. As …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Conference Pre-Season SOS Analysis (Part 2)”
Welcome back to the next installment of the 2022 College Football Prep. For those who are new, just forgotten, or are on vacation, the GCR looks at all Division I conferences. There are five Power 5 conferences (ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, and the SEC) plus the oddball Notre Dame who isn’t connected to …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Conferences Have the Easiest Schedule?”
Greetings and happy start to the GCR preseason ramp up, oh great and wonderful college football fans. With 261 (+3 from 2021) teams across 26 conferences (sort of +1) and 16 realignments, it seemed it might be time to kick it up a little early this year. The first games are coming up at the …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Are There Any Conference Changes in 2022?”
Hello, oh great and patient college football fans. The last few weeks have been crazy insane in the ol’ G life (day job, home responsibilities, soon to be 18-year-old daughter, learning new songs for the band – shameless plug during an apology for Project Detour Band on all kinds of social media). That’s no excuse, …
Hello college football fans. Since the inception of the BCS championship for the 1998 season (played in January 1999 with Tennessee topping Florida St), there have been 23 championship games (BCS or CFP). After that first season, the SEC did not make the BCS championship game for the next 4 years. Florida St (ACC), Oklahoma …
Read More “G’s Expectation or An All-SEC Championship…Again”
Welcome to Championship Weekend, college football fans. The FCS will be kicking us off, but let’s close out the “other” games with a recap of the Texas Bowl blowout. A depleted LSU 6-7 (43) had nothing (at least until scoring 13 in the last 3:35 of the game) against Kansas St 8-5 (44) and lost …
Howdy and yeehaw college football fans. Our last bowl prior to the championship games is coming in tonight. But first a quick (very quick recap) of our New Year’s games. 3 of the 5 games were decided by 3 or fewer points. ….. In an Outback blowout, Arkansas 9-4 (26) took care of Penn St …
Read More “G’s Expectation or It’s the Texas Bowl! It’s the Texas Bowl!”
Good morning (or afternoon for you late night partiers) and welcome to the first 2022 edition of the GCR Blog. The formulas that make up the data for this post began in 2012 and have evolved (and continue to evolve) into what we have today. My first blog as on August 31, 2019, and this …
