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It’s about this time in the offseason when college coaches get bored.

School is out, all of their players have scattered for the month and the coaches are left with nothing but some tape of the coming year’s opponents and the Internet.

So, it kinda makes sense that Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy would take to Twitter out of boredom and ask the cast of A&E’s hit show Duck Dynasty to hang out with him some football Saturday this fall.

Extend an open invitation to the @duckdynastyae crew for sideline passes & carte blanche to @cowboyfb. Love to have them in Stillwater

— Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) May 10, 2013

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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

College football players get a very short offseason so they usually want to make the most of it by doing charity work, hanging with friends and drag racing.

Yes, drag racing.

That’s how Arizona State quarterback Taylor Kelly enjoys his off time with his family in Eagle, Idaho, according to Pac-12.com, which caught up with the family during their races. Kelly, his stepfather and stepfather have a small fleet of supped up cars and race and navigate obstacle courses for fun.

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

While any sort of high-speed racing has an element of danger to it, I’m not sure this is up there with Tod crashing his brother’s car in the movie Parenthood. Kelly and his family are racing modified Acura’s and BMW’s. All of them are red and all have a Sun Devil logo with the No. 10 on the side. The drivers wear harnesses and helmets, but as far as we could tell, Kelly wasn’t sporting a flame-retardant suit.

Still, this is a risky offseason activity, one we hope coach Todd Graham knew about before watching it on the Pac-12’s website. Not sure how many coaches would want their starting quarterback drag racing

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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Some rivalries never die, even when you move on to another school.

Florida coach Will Muschamp, who was the defensive coordinator at Texas, took exception to Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops’ comments regarding the SEC and his assertion that it wasn’t the super conference many say it is.

Shocking that a coach with Texas ties would disagree with the head coach of the Longhorns’ arch rival.

Here’s what Stoops told the Tulsa World this week:

“So they’ve had the best team in college football. 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.

“So you’re listening to a lot of propaganda that gets fed out to you. 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

Former Syracuse coach Doug Marrone has moved on to the greener pastures of the NFL as head coach of the Buffalo Bills, so he’s trying to unload his Syracuse, N.Y., abode — for the low, low price of $1.19 million.

The 6,127-square-foot home includes a Syracuse-themed indoor basketball court, a drop-down movie screen, a saltwater pool and some really horrific wallpaper in the entryway.

Overall, the house has four bedrooms, seven bathrooms — five with actual baths — a couple fireplaces, an outdoor kitchen and bar, a four-season sun room and an undercounter microwave, which I’ve never seen before.

Aside from the wallpaper, the house, which the Marrone’s originally bought for $485,000, is pretty nice and probably a sweet get for any major Syracuse fan. The 50 feet by 25 feet indoor basketball court is pretty sweet.

And I don’t think I’d even been in a saltwater pool before.

It’s a pretty lofty pricetag, but there are some pretty nice perks to the home. And it seems to fit the price tag a little better than some other former coach’s homes on the current market.

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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