This offseason we will count down various topics from Monday through Friday, bringing you the top five of the important and definitely some not so important issues in college football. It's the Doc Five, every week until we will thankfully have actual games to discuss.

MOST MEMORABLE HITS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL

NO. 1, "MY GOD, A FRESHMAN"

There is a two-day Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") on Friday and Saturday with 12 former Heisman winners as they film a Nissan "Heisman House" series of commercials. Tony Dorsett reminded us how things have changed in the last 30 or so years.

[Also: SEC should expand schedule, cut down on cream puffs]

"The fans and visibility of game has come a long way," Dorsett, the 1976 Heisman winner, said on the AMA. "When I was playing, all you would see was Notre Dame on TV. Now everyone's on TV, which I think they deserve."

That's one good reason why Herschel Walker running over Bill Bates during the 1980 season opener is No. 1 on this list.

Jadeveon Clowney made his already legendary play, and the rest took care of itself. Right now, you could open a new tab on your browser and watch that play again, as many times as you want. It would take you less than 30 seconds. There's a good chance you have a phone with that capability too. Everything is accessible and instant celebrity is common. Heck, a woman who flipped the middle finger to Bulls forward Joakim Noah this week became an internet legend in less than 24 hours.

In 1980, what was there? Maybe the local news had a clip, but probably not. YouTube was inconceivable and ESPN wasn't the omnipresent force it is now.

And yet, Walker's legend, which grew to be as large as any in college football history, started for many people at that moment. Even during an era in which information wasn't easily accessible, everyone still seemed to see that play.

And what a play it was.

Bates was no pushover. He was a second-team all-SEC pick for Tennessee two years in a row. Bates played for 15 years in the NFL. He sized up Walker in the open field, and while Walker was already a known commodity for his incredible high school exploits, he was still just a freshman playing his first career game.

Walker ran right over Bates at the 5-yard line and scored his first career touchdown. Aside from possibly Bo Jackson running over Brian Bosworth in the pros, it's maybe the most famous instance of a running back completely bowling over a defensive player. Walker knocks Bates back and eventually on his back and he keeps his legs moving and moves forward like

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Deadspin had a great graphic presentation showing who is the highest-paid employee for each state, and unsurprisingly, most of the top earners were college coaches.

Or, more specifically, most were college coaches.

Of the 50 states, the football coach is the highest-paid state employee in 26.5 of them (in Minnesota, there was a tie between football coach and men's basketball coach) according to Deadspin. Perhaps the only surprise is that there were 23 states in which the football coach wasn't the highest paid.

Right or wrong, most of us realize that's the world we live in. Mack Brown ($5,353,750 salary in 2012, according to USA Today) and Kirk Ferentz ($3,835,000 in 2012) are going to have much higher salaries than anyone who works in a classroom. The Dakotas, which each pay the medical school dean more than any other state employee, are anomalies. And that probably wouldn't be true if they had big-time FBS teams.

Deadspin's fantastic graphic showed that only 10 of 50 states had a highest-paid employee outside of the athletic realm. Most were college presidents or heads of the medical school. There were 11 states in which a men's basketball coach was highest paid, including a few surprises like California, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan (we know Tom Izzo and Billy Donovan have won national titles, but still). New Hampshire's highest-paid

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Being arrested for public intoxication isn't a great development for a player looking to win a starting quarterback spot.

Oklahoma's Kendal Thompson was found in the early morning hours Friday passed out on a hill and snoring, according to SoonerScoop.com. The officers woke him, and smelled alcohol on him, the story said.

"As I was speaking with him, he was not making sense with incomplete sentences and was becoming harder to understand him," said Boxford in the affidavit, according to SoonerScoop.com.

The story said Thompson then failed to obey an officer's direction to stay seated, and that resulted in a charge of interference with the official process, along with public intoxication. SoonerScoop.com said Thompson is four days from turning 21.

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Last September, it seemed Wes Lunt, Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State would have a very happy four years together.

Less than eight months later, Lunt looked at a logjam at quarterback and decided to transfer somewhere else. Things changed dramatically from those first few weeks of last season.

Lunt was an early sensation, a freshman who was ranked seventh among all quarterbacks in his class by Rivals.com and was the first true freshman to start at quarterback for the Cowboys since at least 1950. Lunt went 11-for-11 in his first career game and threw for 436 yards in his second. Given that great start and how Oklahoma State throws the ball, it seemed he was destined for big things in his career with the Cowboys. In his third game, on Sept. 15, he hurt his knee on the sixth play of the game. It seemed like a setback for the season, not the signal that his Oklahoma State career would be over pretty soon.

J.W. Walsh played great in relief, throwing for 347 yards and four touchdowns. Lunt came back after a few weeks, with a 324-yard game against TCU, but a week later suffered a concussion. This time Clint Chelf took over. Chelf played well the rest of the season.

So after a spring battle between Chelf, Walsh and Lunt didn't end with a definitive conclusion on who would be the 2013 starter, Lunt decided to transfer.

Lunt will have three years of eligibility left, and some team will

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And so the super-conference movement begins.

Well, obviously the idea of the big conferences in college football splitting off into their own division isn't really new, and it's a good bet that it is being actively discussed in some fashion behind the scenes. Now it has an endorsement from the game's biggest coach and one of the sport's most powerful men, Alabama's Nick Saban.

“I’m for five conferences – everybody playing everybody in those five conferences,” Saban told AL.com, in response to a question about the Big Ten saying it might not schedule FCS teams anymore. “That’s what I’m for, so it might be 70 teams, and everybody’s got to play ’em. …”

It's a concept that is probably going to come

This offseason we will count down various topics from Monday through Friday, bringing you the top five of the important and definitely some not so important issues in college football. It's the Doc Five, every week until we will thankfully have actual games to discuss.

MOST MEMORABLE HITS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL

NO. 2, SEND IN THE CLOWNEY

It's hard to believe anybody seeing the Jadeveon Clowney hit against Michigan for the first time didn't emit some kind of sound.

The funny thing is, it was probably one of the easier plays Clowney made all season. The South Carolina end was unblocked because of a miscommunication by the offensive line. But after he gets past the line, the play is breathtaking.

[Also: Former Notre Dame fullback Asaph Schwapp dies at age 26]

The closing speed is unbelievable for a man who is 272 pounds. The force of the (legal) hit on Michigan's Vincent Smith is absurd. It knocked Smith's helmet off, and it flew about 10 yards. And the sound is crazy. The Daily Gamecock's game recap quoted South Carolina receiver Ace Sanders saying it sounded like a car crash, and teammate Bruce Ellington said he didn't see the hit live, but he could hear it on the sideline. There's also the ridiculous bonus of Clowney picking up the fumbled ball with his left hand like it's the size of a baseball.

Clowney's tweet right after the game is pretty funny in retrospect:

Boy I had a big hit today dang love the game

— jadeveon clowney 7(@clownejd) January 2, 2013

Yeah, we know, Jadeveon.

The YouTube videos are still popular. One clip of the hit has more than 3.5 million views, and another copy of the play has more than a million. On ESPN's SportsCenter, it won the "Best of the Best" highlight for three months straight. LeBron James tweeted about it. There was even another version of the video, which has almost 100,000 views, hilariously set to the audio of wrestling

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Calling a guy by the wrong name happens to everyone, even to those on live television.

So when Fox Sports cut to its roving reporter Katie Witham at the Indians-A's Thursday matinee game to interview Ohio coach Frank Solich in the stands, well, she got Solich's name wrong. She handled the rest of the interview great, so no big deal.

But of all the names to give Solich ...

"We've got head football coach Tom Solich here with us," Witham said. "I just called you Tom, and your name is Frank, I apologize. I don't know where that came from."

Nothing wrong with the name Tom either, unless your entire coaching career is pretty much known for replacing Tom Osborne at Nebraska. At some point Frank Solich must feel about hearing the name Tom like Jan Brady felt hearing about Marcia:

[Also: Former Notre Dame fullback Asaph Schwapp dies at age 26]

Solich, who has built a nice program at Ohio, had a 58-19 record at Nebraska. And that's tremendous, but it's not what Osborne did. Solich had the misfortune of being a very good coach and having a very good record right after a great coach had a great record over decades. His name will always be associated with the guy who he replaced with the Cornhuskers.

Tom, Tom, Tom!

To his credit, Solich – who was at the Indians game to

When a football player being charged with a hate crime is just the start of the embarrassing news for your Ivy League football program, it has been a pretty bad week for the school.

The news from the NBC affiliate in New York that Chad Washington, a defensive lineman at Columbia, had been charged with a hate crime after threatening another student and calling him Asian slurs was followed by a report from WKCR (the "radio home of the Columbia Lions" according to its Twitter feed) that multiple players had sent out dozens of tweets containing homophobic slurs and racist jokes. The station saved the tweets and posted them online. The school said on Thursday it is investigating the situation.

This kind of news wouldn't go over well at any school, but especially not at an Ivy League school that considers itself to be at a higher standard.

[Also: Former Notre Dame fullback Asaph Schwapp dies at age 26]

According to NBC's report, the arrest came after an Asian student was walking with two women, and the women were heckled by a man. When the victim tried to defend the women, slurs were directed at him by the suspect, identified as Washington, and the victim was followed and pushed up against a wall. Washington faces a misdemeanor charge of aggravated harassment. His lawyer Daniel Fetterman told the Columbia Spectator student newspaper that his client did not commit a hate crime.

"The allegations do not accurately portray the events that occurred," Fetterman told the Spectator. "When all