"Don't Believe the Hype"

"Georgia runs away from a cup cake and moves up the polls! Really?"

In 1988 the socially conscious rap group Public Enemy released the hot single “Don’t Believe the Hype!” It quickly became the mantra for kids all across the country. Boyz would tell you in a minute “Don’t Believe the Hype” if you were getting ahead of yourself or falling for the Oaky Doke. The old timers just kept it 100 and said, “Don’t put the cart before the horse.” In other words slow down bruh!

Well… somebody needs to tell that to the AP voters that released the new College Football Top 25 this week. Now I completely understand why Alabama and LSU are ranked #1 and #2. They are clearly the best two teams in the country. However, how does last weeks #6 Georgia leap frog then #5 Oklahoma to become #5 this week after blowing the doors off of dull Florida Atlantic and the Sooners didn’t even play?

It’s called believing the hype of the SEC! Last week I wrote the Hot Joint entitled "The Myth of the SEC" explaining to boyz why both Alabama and LSU were simply carrying that conference. SEC fans went crazy on my Twitter account(@jaygravesreport) calling me a hater, delusional and jealous. The truth hurts and I can understand that bruh but stop me when I start lying. Like I keep saying, “The SEC has catfish like every other conference!” Stop taking credit for being in the same conference as the two top teams. You can't spend your rich brothers money homeboy. 

You simply can not justify how a team can play a cup cake and jump over another team that didn’t even play. Simple logic would say that those two teams at a minimum would remain in the same spots. Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Georgia is Mark Richt’s Georgia bruh! They are probably one of the most hyped and under achieving programs in college football annually. In my Huggy Low Down voice, “Waaaait for it.” They’ll fall apart sooner rather than later.

Since I’m keeping it real, like I always do, here lately Oklahoma is the second most under achieving joint within the last 6 or 7 years too. However, they’ve won more games than any other program in the history of the college football since 1950 and picked off 5 Heisman’s and 7 National Championships in the process. So they've at least got some credence. I know because that’s my team. They’ve been dull lately but they don’t deserve to fall in the polls until they lose or at least look bad in a sloppy win.

Y’all know how I do. Ima always be honest or I’m not going to write it. Quit trying to make folks believe that the SEC is this powerful conference from top to bottom because it simply isn’t true. Don’t just throw boyz into the Top 10 so that clowns that don’t know any better will believe the hype. You know darn well Georgia and South Carolina aren’t top 10 teams.

South Carolina struggled with Vanderbilt in week 1. If that had been a school from any other conference they would’ve fallen out of the top 10 so fast it wouldn’t have been funny. Now I never thought that I’d be defending both Notre Dame and Texas because I hate them both. However, based on what they’ve done so far they should be in the top 10 easy. I almost threw up in my mouth admitting that but I’ve got to keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st!  West Virginia should easily be ahead of both South Carolina and Oklahoma as well.

These sports writers must not be watching the same games that I’m watching because the AP Top 10 is a joke right now. My Top 10 looks like this after 3 weeks:

1. Alabama
2. LSU
3. Oregon
4. West Virginia
5. Florida State
6. Oklahoma
7. Stanford
8. USC
9. Notre Dame
10. Texas

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

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