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As universities continue to explore new ways to make money off college football, the University of Minnesota might be a cautionary tale.

Minnesota began selling wine and beer at football games last season and according to the Associated Press, the university actually lost $16,000 on the initiative. The school did make more than $900,000 in sales during the season.

So where did all the money go?

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The search for a backup quarterback at Ole Miss isn’t quite going as well as coach Hugh Freeze would have hoped.

With starter Bo Wallace out this spring while recovering from offseason shoulder surgery, the offensive onus has been on senior Barry Brunetti and sophomore Maikhail Miller and neither has seized the reins.

“We don’t go through the progression like you’re supposed to a lot of times and then we’ll have easy throws that we make difficult because of footwork that is bad and a lot of the stuff we do in the run game, they’re not involved in all of it that would really help us get those four yards,” Freeze told the Clarion-Ledger. “We got a ways to go at that spot.”

Tennessee is the latest school to go on a mailing binge.

After teams such as Alabama and Ole Miss were cited as having sent recruits letters in bulk, the Vols, behind new coach Butch Jones, pulled a similar stunt with Stanton Truitt, an athlete from Monroe, Ga.

"When I went to open [the mailbox], it would not budge," Truitt told ESPN.com. "I pulled it down, and then some of the letters were hanging out, but they were all tied together by a rubber band.

"I was thinking there was no way these came from the same school," he said. "But I kept pulling on them and I thought the mailbox was going to break, but when I got them out I found out that all 102 of them were from Tennessee! It was crazy."

Apparently, Tennessee wanted to get in one last mass mailing before the NCAA suspended the ability for teams to do so.

The 102 letters, which was just short of the 105 Alabama sent Alvin Kamara last year. Kamara ended up going to Alabama, but Tennessee might have a little more of a fight with

(AP)Gunner Kiel’s time at Notre Dame was over before it even began.

The rising redshirt freshman has opted to transfer, according to coach Brian Kelly, after spending the past season behind sophomore starter Everett Golson on the depth chart.

While Kelly didn’t name Kiel’s potential destination, he did say Kiel’s list of transfer schools did not include any of the Irish’s upcoming opponents. Notre Dame plays Temple, Michigan, Purdue, Michigan State, Oklahoma, Arizona State, USC, Air Force, Navy, Pitt, BYU and Stanford on its 2013 schedule.

Kelly said he was a little surprised Kiel, the nation’s best pro-style quarterback from the 2012 class, wanted to transfer, especially since the coaching staff had told him he’d have an ample opportunity to compete for the starting role this spring.

"We had kind of created an opportunity for him to compete in the spring," Kelly said. "So maybe a little surprised from that standpoint, because he was actually told he'd be given the opportunity to compete. Sometimes when you don't hear that, you wouldn't be surprised.

"While we are sad when kids don't go through the entire program, we want what's best for them. We are educators as well as coaches."

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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.

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NO. 4, MIRACLE AT MICHIGAN

It’s tough to remember, but there was time when Colorado was one of the nation’s elite programs in college football and its roster was littered with NFL talent.

These were the 90s.

In 1994, the Buffaloes were especially talented thanks to a roster with the likes of Kordell Stewart, Ray Caruth, Michael Westbrook, Rashaan Salaam, Christian Fauria and several other NFL draft picks. That 1994 team went 11-1, but it just as easily could have been 10-2.

Brace yourself Texas and Texas A&M fans, Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds told the Daily Texan that the infamous rivalry between the two schools could resume in the near future.

Just one catch though – it will be on the Longhorns’ terms.

“They left,” Dodds told the paper. “They’re the ones that decided not to play us. We get to decide when we play again. I think that’s fair. If you did a survey of our fans about playing A&M, they don’t want to. It’s overwhelming. I know. I hear it. Our fans are important to us. I think there’s got to be a period where things get different. I think there’s too many hard feelings.”