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Happy Wednesday, sports fans! We made it past this week’s half-time, and with just 10 days left before the opening kickoff for the season, it’s time to review the conference with the 3rd most difficult schedule. And with a little bit of a heavy heart, because it is, most likely, the last pre-season post for …
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Happy Sunday college football fans and welcome to the second installment of the Power 5 previews. Ok, preview is a little strong. It’s really just a comparison of conferences by the GCR’s calculation of a preseason strength of schedule (PS SOS) for each team then averaged for the conferences. We started months ago with the …
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Happy Thursday and, with just 16 days left and 6 blogs to write before week 0 kickoff, the frequency will increase. Of course, that acceleration coincides, as it does every year, with the Power 5 conferences. We’ve tackled the FCS from the lone independent, Kennesaw St, through the 13 conferences, then moved through the 5 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Power 5 Conference Has the Weakest Schedule?”
Howdy, College Football Fans, and welcome back as we are just 22 days from kickoff. Before I continue in the Preseason Strength of Schedule (PS SOS) series, let’s have a moment of silence for the Pac-12 who, if rumors hold true, have now not only lost Southern Cal and UCLA to the Big Ten and …
Happy Monday, the last day of July, just 26 days until the season’s kickoff. It’s time to talk about the FBS’s non-division division: The Independents. Last season there were 7, all of whom were considered Group of 5 except for Notre Dame. Over the summer, BYU promoted to the Big 12 while Liberty and New …
It’s Thursday night and we are down to just 30 days before the 2023 college football season. So, today, let’s start with a quiz. What happens to a Group of 5 conference that has 3-4 teams that are so good, the conference almost challenges the weakest Power 5 conference and even had a team make …
It’s been a bit since the last post, but now it’s time to talk about one of my favorite conferences: the Mid-American Conference aka the MAC. Every November, the MAC plays conference games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays giving us daily football (between college and the pros) for that month. They call it MACNation and it’s …
Happy Saturday and six weeks until the college football season kicks off, finally. Last time we began our review into the FBS and we continue that with what is always a very interesting conference: the Mountain West. Last season there were 3 teams (Air Force, Boise St, Fresno St) with exactly 10 wins and 3 …
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Happy Monday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Last time, we finished the preseason strength of schedule (PS SOS) for the FCS teams and, as the title says, time is getting short to complete the analysis for the FBS. For those who may not be as familiar with terminology, FCS is the Football Championship …
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 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Most-Challenged FCS Conferences”
