G’s Exploration or The 7th Most Challenged Conference in 2024

Welcome back to the latest episode of the GCR. I have to apologize for the non-standard schedule. My day job is rewarding, yet very long days. So, if you can forgive me and maintain flexibility, we will keep driving toward kickoff (just 4 weeks from yesterday). ….. Today we are going to look at the …

G Exploration or The 8th Most Difficult Conference in 2024

Welcome back, college football fans. This episode is a day early (a first for this season, just in case I run into more hotel internet issues), but it’s a fun one. With the destruction of the Pac-12 (California and Stanford to the ACC along with SMU of the America; Arizona, Arizona St, Colorado, and Utah …

G’s Exploration or the 9th Most Difficult Conference in 2024

Welcome back. Apologies for the delay: between 14 hour work days and the hotel’s internet not working most of the week and a long drive back to Atlanta from Memphis due to flight cancellations, I’m trying to play catch up. Thankfully, we are only 1 episode behind. Just in case, I’m going to post Monday’s …

G’s Exploration or We Made it to the Top Ten

Welcome back, college football fans, to the latest episode of the 2024-25 season. We started way back on May 15th with the 25th (and least) challenged conference and have worked our way every 4th day (on average) to make it to the number 10. A couple of seasons ago, there was a mass exodus as …

G’s Exploration or We Made it to the FBS!

Welcome back, college football fans, as we explore the 11th most difficult conference, aka the easiest FBS conference in 2024. We’ve gone through all of the FCS and as we shift I should define just in case we have a new football fan out there. FCS (Football Championship Series) is what would be called “mid-majors” …

G’s Exploration or The Most Challenged FCS Conference

Happy Sunday, college football fans, and I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing 4th of July weekend. This episode will finish up the FCS conferences. Now, I know many of you are not exactly into the FCS, but I posit to you that this conference is one of the best in football. The weakest …

G’s Exploration or Lucky 13!

Welcome oh great and wonderful college football fans from the lovely confines of Memphis where the heat index was 113 today! But in this episode we are talking about the penultimate FCS conference from a pre-season strength of schedule view. ….. The 9-team Southern Conference (or SoCon) has 8 teams playing Core 4 (used to …

G’s Exploration or We’re in the Top 15!

Welcome back, college football fans, as the GCR is trying to catch up after a couple of really busy weeks. Today we are focusing on the conference with the 15th most challenging schedule (4th in the FCS) mostly due to challenging road schedules. Seven games against Core 4 (used to be Power 5) teams including …

G’s Exploration or The 16th Most Difficult Conference

Welcome back a day late, sports fans. I’ve been fortunate to have traveled all over the world and I’ve seen a lot of weird things at airports. Last night, after weather delays taking off, our plane was held up just 6 feet from the gate due to a sinkhole. Yes, a sinkhole at the Atlanta …