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Happy Father’s Day to all those who have been called “dad” by anyone. It’s been an exceptionally great one for me and I hope for you as well. In this episode we are going to talk about the 17th most difficult conference by preseason Strength of Schedule (PS SOS), aka the 9th easiest, aka the …
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Happy Wednesday, oh great and wonderful college football fans, and greetings from lovely Markham, Ontario. Yes, the GCR is international again this episode! So grab your poutine, turn the hockey game on and enjoy the GCR, eh? ….. Number 17 is the 9-team United Athletic Conference which is a merger of the Western Athletic Conference …
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Happy Saturday, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Today we are just 11 weeks and 19 conferences away from the opening weekend (August 24th). You can check out every past blog at http://bit.ly/2019GCR. We are roughly halfway through the FCS and are still on schedule! This week we are looking at the #19 in …
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Greetings, oh great and wonderful football fans, from just north of Toronto! Yes, the GCR is international for the next little bit of time. This post will be incredibly short because the conference in the 20th most difficult average schedule isn’t really a conference at all. If it were, it would be the only one …
Happy Saturday, college football fans, as we turn the calendar to June. Just 12 weeks from today, the season kicks off with week 0 and we will be underway. In the meantime, we have 21 more conferences to talk about. Today is the Southwestern Athletic Conference, or SWAC, the other FCS Historically Black College and …
Welcome back, college football fans. I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday during which we remember those service men and women who gave their lives so that the American Experiment can continue. This week, we discuss the 22nd most-challenged or 4th least-challenged conference (depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist). As a recap, …
Welcome back, college football fans. We are inching closer to the tantalizing start of the season and in this episode, we are discussing the 3 least difficult conference, aka the 23rd most difficult. Prior to a very late add to the conference lineup, the Mercyhurst Lakers out of Erie PA, the Northeast Conference (NEC), with …
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Welcome back college football fans as we dive into the second in our series ranking the 25 D1 football conferences in terms of pre-season strength of schedule. Last time we talked about the lowly Pioneer League and this week we step up a notch to the unique Ivy League. These 8 storied institutions still play …
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Happy Wednesday and welcome to the first top 25 of the GCR year. There are 25 football conferences and, while the GCR has no preseason rank (all teams start the season tied for first or last, however you prefer to look at it), I do indulge in a little preseason analysis based on last year’s …
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The post-championship lull is over, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Since we last spoke, the GCR lost a wonderful long-term friend, my wife and I built our future retirement home, and our daughter maintained her 4.0 in college (as a math major, who could have figured that out?). And I would be remiss …
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