All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Welcome back, sports fans, to the first basketball conference comparison for the 2025-26 season. We ranked all 363 teams individually yesterday which always brings up the question about conference strength. In football, the Core 4 (ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, and Notre Dame) is clearly defined just as the Group of 5 (soon to …
Read More “Women’s Basketball or Which Conferences Are the Best?”
Welcome back, sports fans. It’s been an incredibly hectic time at the GCR since around September with football games as well as preparing for and then executing basketball games. Now that there is just one football game left (so 3 more football posts before the offseason), we can focus on basketball. The timing is perfect …
Welcome back, college football fans. We know we are just under the wire for this post – if we miss the kickoff, we will update before we sign off. Last night, the Miami FL Hurricanes gave Mississippi all it could handle including a heartbreak TD with just 18 seconds to go. The final score was …
Welcome back, college sports fans, as we do a deep dive into tonight’s FBS semifinal game. First, we need to take our hats off to the FCS champion Montana St Bobcats who edged the Illinois St Redbirds by a score of 35-34 on January 5th. The Bobcats took a 14-0 lead only to see ILST …
Welcome back, college sports fans, as we continue with our week 9 basketball analysis, albeit a day late, this time for the men. We had a longish discussion Tuesday on the women’s (also a day late) top 363 about the impact, and sometimes silliness, of playing non-division I teams and beating them 80,000 to 12 …
Read More “Men’s Basketball’s Top 365 or How Does Conference Play Impact Rankings?”
Welcome back, sports fans. Apologies for the one-day delay in this post. If you have been following the GCR over the last couple of weeks, the entire staff and family (all 3 of us) were on vacation in the Caribbean. We had already planned to skip week 8 for both men and women because every …
Read More “Women’s Basketball or The Top 363 Through Week 9”
Welcome back, sports fans, as we dive into tonight’s FCS title game. First, we want to apologize for missing the WBB Top 363 as promised. We were delayed due to the chaos at the San Juan, PR airport and did not make it to GCR headquarters (our house) until about 4:30 this morning. Getting everything …
Welcome back, sports fans from the island of St Maarten. First, a piece of business. Both the men and women have resumed playing basketball, mostly with conference games, and we will resume our ranking on 1/5 with our normal schedule. The men’s ranking will be on 1/7. We skipped week 7 because of the end …
Welcome back, sports fans, to a brand-new year! We are kicking the year off with three quarterfinal games, which just feels right. This post is coming to you from beautiful St Lucia. ….. First, we need to talk about the games from NYE. Iowa made Vanderbilt play from behind the entire ReliaQuest Bowl and the …
Welcome back sports fans, this time as we at the GCR are approaching Barbados. It is very relaxing and fun to be on the ship and enjoy the islands, but we do not get ESPN. We are living vicariously through you, the readers, and the ESPN app. We missed some good ones yesterday. in the …
