All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
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 …
Greetings oh great and wonderful college football fans! It’s been about six months since my last post and I missed the entire spring season. We were dealing with some personal issues and I just couldn’t keep up with the weekly changes with everything on my plate. Apologies to my readers and although New Mexico St …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Welcome Back to College Football”
It’s finally here, college football fans. The culmination of this strange season and a match up of the only remaining undefeated teams. This abbreviated post is all about the prediction, but before we get there here’s a tale of the tape: ….. As a reminder, OER is the offensive effectiveness rating calculated by comparing on …
Greetings college football fans on the eve of the championship game of the oddest season in memory. Sometimes I am not very bright such as when I promised I would have a comparison of conferences for this crazy season. What was I thinking? The MAC played two games out of conference (both bowl games) while …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Is There a Way to Compare Conferences?”
Greetings fellow college football fans. I don’t know exactly what’s going to happen, but it seems Covid may postpone the title game. We’ll keep an eye on it and be ready either way. It just reminds us of the near miracle that teams were able to play so many games. It also reminds us how …
Read More “G’s Evaluation or What’s the Ranking BEFORE the Championship Game?”
Greetings sports fans! There is one college football game left (at least until the FCS starts their spring schedule) pitting the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Ohio State Buckeyes as the only 2 remaining undefeated teams. We now have to wait and wait until this matchup of long-time bluebloods kicks off. So, to help ease …
Happy New Year, college football fans! All of here at the GCR (ok, me), wish you a safe and uneventful 2021. From a football standpoint, the last few days have been both exciting and disappointing. Exciting because it started with a thriller with Oklahoma St (21) jumping to a 21-0 lead after a single quarter …
Happy holidays oh great and wonderful sports fans. It’s Monday yet again (that means one fewer before retirement) and we’ve already seen 10 bowl games! With the Music City Bowl between Iowa (25) and Missouri (54) cancelled due to a Covid outbreak in Columbia, we will have 8 bowls in the next segment. 2 conferences …
Read More “G’s Exploration or We’ve Finished the First Round of Bowl Games”
In a normal year, oh great and wonderful college football fans, I get a week or so to get all of the bowl games input and analyzed. This year, I had a day and I failed to meet the deadline. As of this writing three games have already completed: App St (31) defeated North Texas …
Read More “G’s Expectations or What to Look for in the Weirdest Bowl Season in History”
