G’s Expectation or It’s the First Day of the 12-Team Playoff

Welcome back to episode 431 of the GCR blog. This is the time of year of counting down: Christmas is coming, Hanukkah is coming, Kwanzaa is coming, New Year’s is coming, etc. And we have been counting down days until the new FBS playoff format kicks off. That wait is nearly over. Before we get …

G’s Exploration or I Need My Independents (sic)

Happy Monday, the last day of July, just 26 days until the season’s kickoff. It’s time to talk about the FBS’s non-division division: The Independents. Last season there were 7, all of whom were considered Group of 5 except for Notre Dame. Over the summer, BYU promoted to the Big 12 while Liberty and New …

G’s Exploration or The Teams Who Challenge Themselves and The Not So Much

We are nearing the end of our SOS analysis prior to the season so that we can look forward to weeks 0 and 1. As of today, we are just 33 days away from the initial set of kickoffs, but that’s a blog coming in a couple of weeks. There are just 9 conferences (if …

G’s Evaluation or Week 11 Rankings

Greetings all! It’s been a weird weekend. Games started on Tuesday and the last one was played today. Yep, a rare Sunday game because UCLA (80) and California (142) had their original games cancelled due to Covid (one of 17 games impacted this week) so they decided to quick schedule a 9:00am Pacific time game …

G’s Expectation or The Semis Are Coming, The Semis Are Coming!

Hello football fans and welcome to FBS Semifinals Day. I capitalized it because today is much more deserving to be a holiday than Festivus, right? At least it’s Saturday and I hope most of us are on a weekend break. Before we jump into the 4 games today, let’s take a look back at yesterday. …