THE BREAD!

"If you ain't talking about this you ain't talking!"

Now that everyone that's going to jump off of the bandwagon has already crashed and burned. Let me talk to those that are still standing at the edge of the cliff thinking about jumping too. Every year at the end of the college football season folk’s start screaming for a playoff. It wouldn't be so bad if it were only the occasional fan that really doesn't know what's going on but when ESPN Analysts that get paid to follow the game start talking crazy I've got to speak up.

Every year Kirk Herbstreit brings up the dumb idea of playing a plus one after the bowls have already been played. He also goes on to say that he can't believe that schools like Boise State didn't get into a BCS Bowl because it's come down to filling up hotel rooms. What planet has this guy been on for the past 20 years?

College football is about Money, Scratch, Deniro, Bread! That's all it's ever been about. So to suggest that it's about anything else would be naive. If it weren't about THE BREAD we would already have a playoff. Herbie has been going to games for free too long. That's his problem. To think that fans would travel to a BCS bowl one week and then turn around the following week and attend another is insane.

It cost more than $2600 to go to Miami for the Orange Bowl for 48 hours just after the Christmas Holidays. Trust me I know! You've got to get plane tickets, hotel on South Beach (no sense in going if you gotta stay at the Motel 6), rental car, game tickets and food. Now what makes you think that people are going to do it all over again the following week? Complete brain fart Herbie! Like I've been saying all along, start the season a week early. Have the top 4 teams play the first weekend of December and have #1 vs. #4 and #2 vs. #3. The two higher seeds play at the crib. The winners go the ship! It's just that simple but to think that regular fans have that type of bread to spend is asinine.

That's what the Super Bowl has become over the years. It's all corporate. The regular NFL fan doesn't get to go to that game anymore. That's where all the major players in business entertain clients. You don't see the regular Joe at the Super Bowl anymore. That's what makes the bowl games so great! The same fans that followed the team all season long is right there staying in the same hotel or groups of hotels with the team during bowl week.

Everybody needs to understand that these host cities and the schools make a lot of money off of these games for the entire week of the bowl. So unless you've got a plan in place to pay them off. It ain't gonna happen! That's like trying to get the dope man to move out of town without offering him an alternate stream of income that's just as viable as the one you're trying to talk him out of. Good luck with that!

Why do you think that Ohio State (6-6) is playing Florida (6-6) in the Gator Bowl on January 2? Anyone else with those records would be playing in the Boo Boo Bowl on December 17 at 3am! It's about selling tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars and TV ad space at the very least bruh! Urban Meyer just took over for the Buckeyes and he wants to recruit in Florida. The story line has been written and it's on and poppin'! It’s about the Bread and BIG SLICES of it.

You wanna know why Michigan and Va Tech is in the Sugar Bowl when Boise State, Kansas State and Arkansas finished with higher rankings? Bread! Say it with me again, "It’s About the Bread!" Michigan is the winningest program in the history of college football. You don't think that the folks in New Orleans knew that when they sent out the invite? Remember, the Big Easy is still rebuilding after a bad sister named Katrina came through there in 2005. So the question is, will Kansas State, Boise State, Arkansas or Michigan sell more tickets, hotel rooms and drink more liquor? Stop me when I start lying bruh because I'm in full throttle.

Like Eddie Murphy said in the movie life, "Let's talk turkey!" When it comes to college football it's all about the Benjamin's and they don't need Puffy and Bad Boy to help them sing it. So take your heart out of it this time of year because the bowl committees don't care about your school unless it’s bringing some bread to town and they‘re willing to spend it! The only prerequisite to understanding college athletics is knowing how to make a sandwich!

P.S. Tebow won again for all you haters out there!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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