The last time a Mark Richt-coached team was ranked #1 in the preseason, this was recorded to mark the occasion:

“So bring on Miami, Michigan State, Clemson, Carolina and the other 8.”

Watch out Young M.C.!

How does a team top “Seminole Rap”? By dropping its season opener to Miami 31-0.

Richt was a graduate assistant at FSU in 1988 when the team garnered a #1 preseason ranking for the first time in school history and celebrated with this atrocity and by getting blown out by one of its two fiercest rivals. It’s probably a little misleading for me to refer to the 1988 Seminoles as “a Richt-coached team” since he was just a graduate assistant. But he was around when it happened, and I’m sure hasn’t forgotten the experience. Really, I just wanted an excuse to post the Seminole Rap (you’re welcome Sara, Grift and Rugby).

His current team, the Bulldogs of the University of Georgia, are projected by many as a preseason top three team and by some as a preseason number one. As much as I would love to hear (and ridicule) a Bulldog Rap that samples “Soldier Boy,” I expect it won’t happen.