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Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury's youthful exuberance was one of the reasons that attracted the Red Raiders to him while they were looking for a coach late last year.

Also his ability to relate to the 18-to-22-year-olds he was coaching was an added benefit.

That benefit was put on display through a note Kingsbury left his players as they prepared to leave campus for the rest of the month.

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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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It takes a lot to be a national champion — a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication and apparently, a lot of money.

Alabama spent $3.4 million for its seven-day trip to Miami for its 881 person travel party to the BCS national Championship game against Notre Dame, according to AL.com, which obtained the school’s NCAA bowl expense report.

Additionally, Alabama paid out $1.46 million in bonuses, which pushed the expenses total to $4.9 million, making the national championship trip the most expensive in school history.

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Over the years, we’ve seen college players and coaches autograph some strange things, including various body parts, but this has to be right up there.

Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen signed a young woman’s ultrasound during one of the coaching caravans. I guess signing the pregnant belly was already played out.

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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

As sad as the video of Marcus Lattimore's gruesome knee injury was, his story ended with a video that can be an inspiration for anyone struggling through adversity.

Many people, including myself, didn't imagine the video at the top of this post was possible last October. It was startling to hear Dr. James Andrews tell ESPN during a pre-draft interview that Lattimore's knee ligaments looked like hamburger meat, and he was lucky he didn't lose his leg. Nobody would have been too surprised if that injury ended his career.

We wrote a lot about Lattimore's journey back from that injury. He is one of the class acts in college football, and handled his injury as well as anyone could. He also worked hard to get in a position to do what seemed nearly impossible a few months ago, and get drafted by a NFL team.

That's why we're very happy to wrap up his story on this blog with the video of the pure joy and relief Lattimore experienced when the San Francisco 49ers called him to tell him he was drafted in the third round.