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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.

BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS: ACTORS WHO PLAYED COLLEGE FOOTBALL

NO. 4 – DWAYNE “THE ROCK” JOHNSON

Before Dwayne Johnson earned the nickname “The Rock” thanks to his professional wrestling exploits, he was better known as “Dewey” to his Miami Hurricanes teammates.

Yes, the wrestler turned actor turned reality TV host was a linebacker for Dennis Erickson’s Hurricanes in 1991 and won a national championship. But a star he was not. Johnson started just one game, but played in 39 and finished his career with 77 tackles and 4.25 sacks.

Former Miami defensive line coach Ed Orgeron, who recruited Johnson, shared his thoughts with ESPN.com about Johnson’s potential.

"As a freshman, he came out, and back then we didn’t play too many freshmen. But he was very strong, he had some great practices and we were able to play him as a freshman, and at one point we thought maybe we’d start him as a freshman.

"The problem with Dwayne was there was a guy named Warren Sapp who came along the next year."

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"You’re talking about one of the best college football players of all time [in Sapp]. If not for [Sapp], Dwayne could have been an all-conference, perhaps an all-American."

That’s right, Warren Sapp ruined Dewey’s budding football career, but put him on a path that has ultimately made him one of the most popular wrestlers and action stars in recent history.

Not a bad trade.

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Florida State athletic director Randy Spetman says the school has no plans to allow star linebacker recruit Matthew Thomas out of his letter of intent.

Thomas, a senior at Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, recently said he wants out of his letter of intent because he was pressured into signing with Florida State back in February by his mother, Mariska Noyn.

“You’d get into a situation where if you release him, then people would be doing that every year,” Spetman told the Tallahassee Democrat Tuesday at the ACC spring meetings.

Spetman has a point. Future recruits could point to a decision to release Thomas as justification for doing the same thing, but how likely is that to happen and how often? Probably not a big risk of it becoming an epidemic at FSU.

Spetman also told the Democrat, "We would be more than happy to release someone if there is a compelling reason."

Isn't the fact that the young man doesn't want to be at your school, wear your uniform and play for your team compelling enough? Do you really want players on the roster who are being forced to be there?

It's not like it would ever come to that, but FSU needs to be

Jacquese Kirk (Rivals.com)Nothing warms the heart like two football players from the same school getting together to talk about old times, at least until a fight starts and one stabs the other with a pocket knife.

Last month, according to a police report obtained by the Tennessean, then-Vanderbilt receiver Jacquese Kirk stabbed former Vanderbilt player Justin Cabbagestalk at a Nashville bar on April 7. News broke a week ago that Kirk was transferring, and now we know why.

No charges will be pressed and the case is considered closed because Cabbagestalk “wanted to let the matter die” and “would not assist in prosecution," the Tennessean said, referring to the police report. He suffered only minor injuries.

The trouble on April 7 started when Cabbagestalk, who the Tennessean said last played in 2010 (Kirk's first season with Vanderbilt was 2011), saw Kirk at The Tin Roof bar in Nashville.

According to the report, Kirk told police he saw Cabbagestalk, who made hand gestures at him across the bar. Cabbagestalk asked him to step around the corner to talk. Kirk claims Cabbagestalk hit or pushed him in the head after he declined, and the Tennessean explained what happened next:

According to the report, Kirk said he pulled out “a little pocket knife, stabbed the victim, closed the knife and put it back in his

(via Twitter JManziel2)No one is ever going to accuse Johnny Manziel of being boring. Not only is he an amazing football player in the fall, he seems to turn up at the coolest places in the offseason.

Manziel isn't just the the reigning Heisman Trophy winner with a hot girlfriend an amazing future and apparently pretty well-off parents who love him dearly, the guy can play golf.

Manziel posted a photo of himself on Twitter with his parents after making a birdie on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach to shoot 79 over the weekend. The only thing better than being able to afford a $495 round of golf at Pebble Beach is playing well after doling out the cash.

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Notre Dame defensive tackle Louis Nix III has never been one to shy away from the spotlight, so when Michigan coach Brady Hoke accused the Irish of “chickening out” of their series with the Wolverines, Nix had to chime in.

[Related: Brady Hoke slams Notre Dame for 'chickening out' of series against Michigan]

Chickened out? #MeatChicken will taste delicious Sept 7th. #GoIrish

— lOUIS NIX III (@1IrishChocolate) May 14, 2013

#MeatChicken?

Not gonna lie, #MeatChicken might be my favorite new hashtag. What is exactly is that? Isn’t all chicken meat? From now on, I’m just gonna drop the hashtag #MeatChicken into random tweets and stories.

But I digress.

Notre Dame canceled games against Michigan from 2015-17. Both schools mutually canceled games in 2018 and 2019.

While Hoke is taking the snub personally, Notre Dame has had to cancel a couple series in order to comply with its new agreement with the ACC, which requires the Irish to play five games against ACC opponents.

No one wants to see this rivalry, which is one of the best in college football, go away, but it seems like that’s becoming the norm in college football. At least we have the next couple years to enjoy what’s left of Michigan-Notre Dame.

Oh, and Nix has one final message for Hoke:

I will eat the BONES. Lol — lOUIS NIX III (@1IrishChocolate) May 14, 2013

#MeatChicken

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Maryland did a good job of using freshman Stefon Diggs to help on the field, now their using him off the field as well.

Earlier this week, Maryland debuted it’s commercial for "1-Hour Terrapin Energy," starring Diggs. The commercial is a spoof on the 5-Hour Energy commercials that show one man doing a litany of things in an hour simply because he drank a 5-hour Energy drink.

In Maryland’s spoof, which we found pretty dang funny, Diggs, does everything from catching a football with one hand, to racing a hare (you know, like the tortoise and the hare), to fixing athletic director Kevin Anderson’s car (while recording his debut album).

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We’ve seen a lot of teams show off their “championship” rings in the past couple weeks, but the one team that deserves to boast about its accomplishments in jewelry form has finally released its cubic zirconia-laden masterpiece.

Alabama long snapper Carson Tinker was the first to tweet out a picture of the Crimson Tide’s simple yet very shiny new bling. The ring has a script “A” on the front along with three footballs to represent Alabama’s three latest national titles. One side of the ring features the name of the player while the other has the score of the BCS National Championship game against Notre Dame.

These rings are a little classier than the ones

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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.

BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS: ACTORS WHO PLAYED COLLEGE FOOTBALL

NO. 5 – CARL WEATHERS

Apollo Creed, ya’ll.

But before Weathers took on Rocky in 1976, he had a decent college football career that started at Long Beach City College and ended with two letters at San Diego State.

Weathers was a freshman at Long Beach City College in 1966 before suffering a season-ending ankle injury by tripping over the curb that surrounds the track where he was warming up. He transferred to San Diego State and lettered as a linebacker in 1968 and 1969. His play was good enough to land him on the Oakland Raiders as a free agent. He played seven games. And he played in the CFL with the BC Lions.

But his true calling was definitely acting.