All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Welcome back after a thrilling weekend of football. JoJo and I took in a Chattanooga Mocs game, met Scrappy the mascot, saw some cheerleaders at dinner afterwards, and had a great time. Unfortunately, a Furman player was seriously injured, and we pray he will heal completely and quickly. The ACC ACC’d again with California upsetting …
Welcome to a special episode in which we rank the conferences through the games of last week trying to determine which conference is has demonstrated the most top to bottom depth. This is not a measure of which conferences have the best top teams, or bottom teams, but an overall picture of health across the …
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Welcome back to the GCR, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Back in 2000, the Mid-American Conference or MAC began playing mid-week games in November in order for their players to have a chance to be on national television with no competition. Akron, Ball St, Bowling Green, Buffalo, C Michigan, E Michigan, Kent St, …
Welcome back, college football fans. Every week, we expect a good number of upsets. To make the point, the GCR had 14 of the 52 FBS games with the winner being the Vegas underdog and an additional 4 that had the underdog covering (note: we were 10-8 in those games). That’s roughly 1/3 of the …
Welcome back to an abbreviated Expectation, oh great and wonderful college football fans. Here at GCR headquarters, aka the living room, we had some unexpected events over the weekend along with a ton of follow up doctor’s appointments. So far so good on that front. But the biggest impact to time is college basketball jumps …
Welcome back, college football fans, as the temps drop, the heat rises. We had some close calls including an OT win by Virginia over North Carolina, and complete failures to play for 60 minutes when South Carolina and Mississippi St lost late leads over Alabama and Texas, respectively, and Purdue’s QB catching his own deflected …
Welcome back, sports fans, to the 519th episode of the GCR blog. We have more Tuesday night Conference USA action, so the predictions are coming fast and early. As the week progresses the Vegas odds often move around a bit, but the stats for the GCR accuracy are based on the numbers at publication. Now, …
Welcome back, sports fans, after one of the craziest weeks in a long time. Five teams that were undefeated coming in lost. Mississippi losing at Georgia in a close game or UNLV losing to Boise St on the blue-headache-inducing field is one thing, but Miami FL lost to Louisville and Memphis lost to UAB. Texas …
Welcome back, college football fans to another fun-filled week! Thank you not only to Conference USA, but also for the single Sun Belt game tonight! As a reminder, college basketball starts November 3rd and the staff here at the GCR (ok, just me) are working around the clock (ok, a few hours here and there) …
Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college football fans! This week was so much fun that I think I broke a personal record by watching at least part of 31 games. Congratulations are in order to Tennessee Tech and Presbyterian who joined Memphis in the 10-consecutive win club – leading all of Division I in …
