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.

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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

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Talk about a landmark case. If a college coach with a 20-50 record can win a lawsuit against a school that fired him, bad college coaches from around the country will be asking their lawyers to check statute of limitations on battling their own terminations in court.

Robb Akey was fired by the University of Idaho last year after the Vandals fell to 1-7 on the season. His team had just been beaten 70-28 by Louisiana Tech, dropping his career record to 30 games under .500. His midseason firing shouldn't have been a complete surprise given his body of work.

And now, he is suing the school.

The Lewiston Tribune Online reported that Akey wants a fair portion of the $105,000 media compensation payout he would have gotten had he finished the season as Idaho coach. Instead, after just eight (bad) games he was fired, well before the end of the season when that payment would have been due.

Akey made a brief

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Arkansas coach Bret Bielema is active on Twitter, to say the least.

He replies to the well-wishers, battles with the disgruntled Wisconsin fans who troll him (let it go Bret, it's been about five months ... and the same can be said for you, angry Badgers fans), lets us know his appearance schedule and other fun stuff like sharing the crazy hat his wife wore to the Kentucky Derby.

And because he is so prolific at social media, we found out that Bielema, a very large man who was raised on a hog farm and played on the defensive line at Iowa, has a dog that can probably fit in his pocket.

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. 3, TWO CAREERS END ON ONE HIT

There have been many crushing, huge memorable hits in college football history. Very, very few ended the careers of both players involved.

Michigan safety Daydrion Taylor and Penn State tight end Bob Stephenson met near the sideline during a 1997 game. The impact knocked Stephenson out and left Taylor unable to feel his legs. It's a hit that's impossible to forget.

Of all the huge hits we've seen, and we'll mention a few more near the end of this post, none were quite like this one. The sickening smack when Taylor put his head down and made impact, the way Stephenson's whole body jolts back, the way both players fall limp to the ground ... it's the kind of hit that many football fans love, but had an enormous physical impact on both men involved.

There's a reason the Big Ten Network had an eight-minute feature on the hit, 15 years later.

"It’s got to be the hardest hit I’ve ever witnessed," Michigan cornerback Charles Woodson, who has played 15 NFL seasons, told the Big Ten Network.

"Probably as hard a hit as I’ve been around," Michigan coach Brady

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The gambling site TheGreek.com posted odds for all the division races in college football (h/t to Beyond the Bets, which has all the odds), and most are unsurprising.

Ohio State is favored to win the Big Ten Leaders Division, of course. The Buckeyes are coming off a 12-0 season, have a lot of players back and possible contender Penn State is still under NCAA sanctions.

It's not shocking that Ohio State is favored. It's the steep odds on the Buckeyes, which project them as almost a virtual lock to win the division, that are a bit startling.

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Wyoming has the highest elevation of any FBS stadium, and the Cowboys want to give opponents a constant reminder of that bit of trivia.

In a photo that made its way around Twitter, including by @uniwatch, Wyoming's new field at War Memorial Stadium will feature snow-capped mountains in each end zone.

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. 4, THE LAVAR LEAP

We'll just apologize now. There's a lot of famous hits, mentioned by some of you in the comments on Monday's comments, that won't make the list. Narrowing down all of the hits in college football history to just five memorable ones is going to leave some great plays out.

And this list isn't the hardest hits, but the most memorable. And even though the LaVar Leap didn't result in a huge collision, most college fans remember seeing it for the first time.

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Oklahoma's Bob Stoops is a great coach and seemingly a good man, so we hate to have to vehemently disagree with him for a second time this offseason.

In a column by the Tulsa World, Stoops claims that the SEC isn't as dominant and everyone says it is. If you watch enough SEC games you realize that's an incorrect statement, but Stoops went on. His reasoning was that the very best teams are elite, but the entire conference is not.

"So they've had the best team in college football," Stoops said, according to the Tulsa World. "They haven't had the whole conference. Because, again, half of 'em haven't done much at all. I'm just asking you. You tell me."

That reasoning is pretty faulty.

Here's Stoops' long quote on why the SEC isn't really all that, from the Tulsa World:

"So you're listening to a lot of propaganda that gets fed out to you," he said. "You're more than smart enough to figure it out. Again, you can look at the top two, three, four, five, six teams, and you can look at the bottom six, seven, eight, whatever they are. How well are they all doing?

"What'd we (the Big 12) have, eight of 10 teams in bowl games this year? Again, you figure it all out."

This comes down to a pretty simple math problem. For all SEC games, there has to be a .500 record at the end. If Alabama, Texas A&M, Florida, South Carolina, LSU and Georgia are all among