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Greetings and welcome to August, aka level 8 of 2020. The major conferences have made their “final” scheduling decisions despite conflicts between conferences and threats of multiple player hold outs. Next time, I’m going to summarize all of the mess (hoping to hear some more from the Group of 5 and FCS conferences by then). …
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Greetings everyone! I hope you are having a good a weekend and managing to stay safe. After months of toiling through the lesser conferences, we have finally hit the big boys – the conferences where we can expect teams to play difficult opponents more times than not. Conferences where the patsy game is a week …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Part 11 of the Preseason SOS aka Easiest Power 5 Conference”
Well, college football fans, another week (or so) has gone by and here we are again – getting to talk about the best sport in the world. Some schools are starting to have players and coaches hit by Covid. A friend asked me if the GCR was going to do a post on that (pretty …
This is not a political blog – and it won’t be today either. I haven’t posted in a week, in part because there are many things more important than a theoretical SOS for a season that may or may not happen and in part because my work notched up substantially (that’s a really happy and …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Part VIII of the Preseason Strength of Schedule Study”
Greetings oh great and wonderful readers!! Happy Saturday and I hope you have a safe Memorial Day weekend. Last time, in part VI of the series, we finalized the FCS teams. I know, I know, when are we getting to the conferences I’ve at least heard of? In college basketball there are major conferences (football’s …
Happy Hump Day, everybody!!! This will be a bit shorter than the others. Instead of a conference by conference view, we will summarize the FCS as a league (or sub-division if you really want to get technical). Here is the top to bottom list with 2020 overall numbers (and FCS specific) as well as 2019 …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Part VI – End of the FCS (For Now)”
Happy Sunday. I’m sitting here pulling the numbers for today’s post while watching some live golf. It certainly provides a bit of hope in this covid era. Speaking of hope, this post ends the conference by conference preseason SOS analysis for the FCS teams focused on the 13th and 12th most difficultly scheduled in the …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Last of the MO-FCS Conferences”
And here we are again. As Robert Heinlein wrote in “Time Enough for Love”, ‘Life is short, but the days are long.’ There are more rumors and discussions about how this season is going to work out. I wouldn’t bet a nickel that all of this preseason work I’m doing will play out as scheduled. …
Read More “G’s Exploration or In This Episode: Conferences 16-14”
Hello mostly home-bound college football fans. The debate on if/when/how games will or won’t happen this fall is beginning to heat up. Some are saying yes, some no, some say safety first, students only at the games, some schools have already announced fall classes will go forward. In reality, who knows, although while I was …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Part III of XX Pre-Season SOS Analysis”
Salutations on a late Friday night blog!! I hope all of you remember your mothers in your life or you will have someone remember you if you are a mom. Earlier this week, I talked about the 3 weakest conferences by 2020 Preseason SOS: Ivy League, FCS Independents, and Patriot. This week we will look …
Read More “G’s Exploration or The Next Three Easiest Conferences”
