D-Day!!

USC WILL be in the title game but playing who?

 D-Day is a term often used by the military to denote the day in which a combat attack or operation takes place. There have been thousands of them during the history of our great country. However, the most famous of them all took place on June 6, 1944 when Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to fight Nazi Germany during World War II.

In the world of College Football that joint typically takes place on Labor Day weekend and more specifically it’s today at 7:00pm eastern when #9 South Carolina visits Vandy. You can officially crack the champagne bottles off of the sides of the flat screens because it’s on and poppin’ tonight playboy!

The SEC has had a strong hold on the game for the past 6 years winning every national title since 2006. Florida grabbed 2 under Urban Myer (2006, 2008), LSU picked off 1(2007) under the most famous hat in the world, Auburn got its hands on the 2010 title and Alabama has won 2 under Nick Saban (2009, 2011). However, if you’ve been around the game long enough you know that it’s cyclical. The balance of power shifts every few years and it’s about that time bruh. It just happened to hang around the SEC longer than expected like Isaac is doing in New Orleans right now.

First of all, Florida State is in complete control of the state of Florida in recruiting right now and it’s their turn again. Miami ran the joint in the late '80, 90’s and early in the new millennium even though Florida State finished in the top 5 for 14 straight years (1987-2000) winning a national title in ’93. Florida (SEC) wasn’t even sitting at the table during that time bruh! Now that Urban and Tebow are gone the balance of power shifts back to the norm. Miami has too many issues right now so the Seminoles are about to be a powerhouse all over again.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! LSU without the Honey Badger is a shell of itself bruh. I know boyz on TV keep talking about them but they don’t get close to playing for a national championship last year without him. Now that he’s gone they lose at least two ball games this year. Pencil in the South Carolina and Bama joints as “L’s” because you can’t just stick a boy in there and expect to get the same production. He was too special of a player for that to happen.

Alabama lost 12 of the 22 starters from last years squad. That's a lot to try to overcome in week 1 because inexperience will rear it's ugly head. Keep in mind that these kids are 17 to 22 years old and it's a huge stage to just show up and play on out of the gate. For that reason they’ll get knocked off by Michigan on Saturday to set the tone for the season to let boyz know early on that the SEC ain't running thangs in 2012. Brady Hoke and the Wolverines are gonna shock the world in Dallas this weekend but not me because the game is cyclical like I said bruh. Now could Michigan beat them in 4 or 5 weeks? Absolutely not! However, they can get them in week 1 while they're trying to figure out who they are!

USC is back and if you’ve seen their schedule you can understand that they’re about to go through boyz in the PAC 12 this year. The only competition that they have is Oregon on November 3^rd at the crib. In my opinion, they’ll win that joint because it's at home. So pencil the Trojans into the national title game and they’ll show up on South Beach unbeaten.

The question is who’s gonna be on the other side of the ball? What’s great is that it’s wide open this year because everybody has question marks going in.  So I’m not going to be a sucker and pick somebody out of my butt because I don’t know. That’s what's going to make this season the bomb diggedy because you just can’t call it but I do believe that the tide has turned on the SEC for the time being and they won’t win the joint this year.

Before boyz start hollerin’ SEC is still the best conference in the game pump ya brakes. We’re only talking about one team that has a legitimate shot to be standing when the smoke clears and that's Alabama. All the rest of those duns are back to normal. Auburn lucked up and got Cam Newton a few years ago and Florida hit the lottery on a once in a lifetime player in Tim Tebow and now LSU is Honey Badger-less. The rest of the conference is serving catfish like everybody else. Clowns like Mississippi State(sorry every year), Ole Miss( horrible all of the time), Tennessee( wandering around like the Children of Israel), Vandy(Who?), Mizzou(couldn’t win in the Big 12), Texas A&M(will get better bcuz of Texas recruiting but not this year) , Georgia(always an under achiever), South Carolina (is the bootleg USC & will lose joints they shouldn't), Arkansas( John L. Smith was a buster at Michigan State) won’t carry the conference bruh!  So I don’t want to hear boyz screamin’ SEC especially if Michigan pulls the upset on Saturday. So let the arguing begin!!! Happy College Football Season!

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

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