(Video)The Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Preview: Week 14!

Week 14 Preview

Championship Week! 

1) PAC 12 Championship Game

#16 UCLA vs. #8 Stanford

2) ACC Championship Game

#13 Florida State vs. Georgia Tech

3) Big Ten Championship Game

#12 Nebraska vs. Wisconsin

4) SEC Championship Game

#2 Alabama vs. #3 Georgia

Holla At Ya Boy! 

Jay Graves 

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(Video) The Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Preview: Week 13!

Week 13 Preview

The Rivalry Games

There's no such thing as an NFL Rivalry Game Bruh! Watch the video to find out why!

1) "The Game" #19 Michigan 8-3 vs. Ohio State 11-0

2) Georgia Tech 6-5 vs. #3 Georgia 10-1

3) #5 Oregon (Parliament Funkadelic) 10-1 vs. #15 Oregon State 8-2

4) #4 Florida 10-1 vs. #10 Florida State 10-1

5) #1 Notre Dame 11-0 vs. USC 7-4

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Jay Graves 

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The Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Preview: Week 12!

Week 12 Preview:

1)The SEC Takes a Smoke Break!
2) #12 Oklahoma vs. West Virginia
3) #18 USC vs. #17 UCLA
4) #13 Stanford vs. #2 Oregon (Parliament Funkadelic)

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Jay Graves
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The Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Preview: Week 11!

College Football Preview Week 11:

1) #11 Oregon State vs #14 Stanford
2) #5 Georgia vs Auburn
3) #21 Miss State vs #7 LSU
4) #4 Notre Dame vs Boston College
5) #15 Texas A&M vs #1 Alabama

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College Football Weekly Preview: Week 10!

Week 10 Preview: Let's get it in!!!!

1)#16 Texas A&M vs. #15 Miss State
2) #24 Oklahoma State vs. #2 Kansas State
3) #23 Texas vs. #18 Texas Tech
4) #4 Oregon vs. #17 USC
5) #1 Alabama vs. #5 LSU

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Jay Graves
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The Big Payback

"The Clash of the Titans"

Muhammed Ali once said, “Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them—a desire, a dream, a vision.” Jimmy Connors gave it to us like this, “I hate to lose more than I love to win!” Vince Lombardi broke it down like a real G and said, “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing” and “If winning wasn’t important, why do they keep score?”

The cat that said, “It’s not important as to whether you win or lose but it’s how you play the game” only said that to make himself feel better about losing. Winning is the only reason that the game is played. In the world of college football winning tradition doesn’t get any bigger than Notre Dame and Oklahoma! This Saturday two monster programs meet in Norman for the first time since 1966. “The Clash of the Titans!”

As much as it sickens me to say it but when Notre Dame is good, college football is even better. When historic programs are good it raises the level of play all over the country. When these two powerhouses take the field on Saturday night you’ll witness two of the most accomplished programs of all-time squaring off.

There will be 18 national championships (ND 11 vs. OU 7), 13 Heisman trophies (ND 7 vs. OU 5), 171 Consensus All-Americans (ND 96 vs. OU 75), 778 NFL draft picks (ND 421 vs. OU 357) and 1,678 wins (ND 857, 3rd all-time vs. OU 821, 6th all-time) between the two programs represented. This is big time college football at its finest bruh!

Over the history of the Notre Dame/Oklahoma match up the Fighting Irish have won 8 of the 9 ball games ever played. Most notably on November 16, 1957 Notre Dame showed up in Norman and ended the Sooners 47 game win streak which was the longest in the history of college football by winning 7-0. Also the last time the Irish visited Sooner Nation in 1966 they blew the doors off of Oklahoma 38-0 en route to a national title.

Well they come in undefeated again and ranked 5th in the country but this is not your father's Notre Dame bruh! Boyz like the 4 Horseman, Rocket Ishmail, Paul Hornung & Tim Brown won’t be running out of the tunnel. Things have changed over the years and the very best cats aren’t playing in South Bend anymore. History is great to look back on but in my Janet Jackson voice, “What have you done for me lately?” Bill Parcells said it best, “No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, you’re not winning now, so you stink!”

Notre Dame will figure out real quick that beating a bunch of awful Big 10 teams, robbing Stanford by going through their pockets right in front of Touchdown Jesus and struggling to get by dull BYU isn’t enough to come into Sooner Nation in 2012 and even keep it close! Bob Stoops is 79-4 at the crib, have had 59 players drafted under his watch, have won 7 Big 12 titles and delivered 2 Heisman's  in 14 seasons in Norman! Since 1950 Oklahoma has won more games than any other program in the nation! They've also been ranked #1 for more weeks (101), #2 (199), #5(383) and #10(537) more than any other program in the history of college football along with winning 43 conference championships. So we know something about winning too bruh! Believe me, boyz are salivating the payback for ending the "Streak." Yeah, it was a long time ago but it’s Oklahoma and folks don’t forget things like that around here.

So let me send my condolences in advance and make sure you send dental records because when the smoke clears on Saturday night you may not be able to recognize these boyz. I’m not a prophet but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! However, I’ve got great news for Irish fans! I just saved 15% on my car insurance! Boomer! Sooner!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

College Football Weekly Preview: Week 9!

Top 5 Ball Games of the Week: Week 9
1) #2 Florida vs #10 Georgia
2) #14 Texas Tech vs #3 Kansas State
3) #11 Miss State vs #1 Alabama
4)  #20 Texas A&M vs Auburn
5) #5 Notre Dame vs #8 Oklahoma

College Football Weekly Preview: Week 8!

Ya Boy's Week 8 Preview of the Top 5 Games of the Week!
1) #6 LSU vs #18 Texas A&M
2) #4 Kansas State vs #13 West Virginia
3) #7 South Carolina vs #2 Florida
4) #14 Florida State vs Miami (Rivalry Game)
5) #1 Alabama vs Tennessee

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

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

Pushin' Hooptie's

Look how things have changed in just 3 short years!

The famous Brazilian author Paul Coelho once wrote, "The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait on the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” My man Ben Franklin broke it down like this, “He that can have patience can have what he will.” Solomon, wisest man to ever live shut it down when he wrote, “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.” Ecclesiastes 7:8. 

As the college football season jumps off this week with the ridiculous match up at Cowboys Stadium on Saturday where the #2 Alabama Crimson Tide (defending national champion) will play the all-time winningest program in the history of college football, the #8 Michigan Wolverines. How many folks can remember Tate Forcier the freshman phenom quarterback that just 3 years ago was the starter ahead of the Heisman candidate Denard Robinson? Ole boy was the man in Ann Arbor and talent convinced him that he didn’t have to put in the work to be great. During the summer of 2010 this dun didn’t participate in voluntary workouts and ended up getting his lunch money and his job taken by Robinson.

He would eventually transfer to the University of Miami in January 2011 where he was initially going to sit out the upcoming season and be eligible to play in 2012 and 2013. But once again he bounced and went to San Jose State only to leave there too. Now he's a free agent in the Canadian Football league looking for a team to play on. He essentially jumped out of a Bentley and ended up in the ’86 Monte Carlo with one head light, a broken rear window, the interior top hanging down in the way with a hole in the floor. Where I'm from they call that a hooptie because that joint is guaranteed to stop on you.

Now let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! This cat reminds me of Oklahoma’s Marcus Dupree, Ohio State’s Maurice Clarett and most recently Auburn’s Mike Dyer. They all were guys with unbelievable talent that didn’t have the patience to wait in line. One thing about life is that you can not bypass the natural order of doing things. All of these clowns thought that the world owed them something right now and ended up buying a lemon.

"Thanks playboy cuz you made it easy!"

The old timers would always say, “Listen up young punk, it ain’t yo time. You gotta wait!” I simply don’t get why boyz can’t understand that you can’t fast forward life because it’s only going to move as fast as it’s supposed to. Now Forcier could still be at Michigan preparing for an unbelievable game on Saturday and still be the MAN in Ann Arbor but he's ridin' in a bucket this morning. Now both of these cats would be starting if he were still there but one of them would be catching balls and it wouldn't be Denard, that's for sure. Why? Because Tate Forcier has the heart of a Lilliputian.

Forcier wanted to be the starting quarterback at a big time program but didn’t want to put in the work. Life doesn’t work like that bruh!  Some old cat in the barber shop with a purple leisure suit on and gators to match once told me that in order to be GREAT you’ve got to be EXTREMELY good at doing the things that require absolutely no talent. Forcier must have never gone to the hood and gotten a hair cut because that’s the type of advice you can walk out of there with. Now don’t get me wrong you’ve got to put on you waders while you’re sitting there because boyz are talking crazy more often than not. However, if you’re paying attention you can learn something.

Just because you’re good doesn’t mean that it’s your time. The best wine is the one that's ready bruh! Paul Masson had a commercial back in the day that said, "We will sell no wine until it's time."  If you’re supposed to shine then you will. Stop buying rides at the buy here pay here lots because the interest rates are too high and they never last more than 6 months! Then you end up upside down in the joint.

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport