By Holly Anderson

Earlier this week, Oklahoma State announced the #AskGundy social media initiative, which has Mike Gundy answering several questions on a wide range of topics each day via his Twitter account. This is the internet, and we knew right away what this was made for:

mike gundy will update his precise age every day just for you okstate.com/sports/m-footb…—
Holly (@Nastinchka) April 29, 2013

Today, the message got through. Today, we have our answer.

.@edsbs Gender: Male. Current Age: 45 #AskGundy—
Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) May 02, 2013

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Al Golden takes the first crystal ball trophy of the season. It is a golf ball. (Courtesy of the Chick-fil-A Bowl)

By Holly Anderson

The ACC continues to hold sway over the SEC in golf, which makes sense, culturally: Despite a close threat from Steve Spurrier and Sterling Sharpe, Al Golden and Gino Torretta won the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge golf tournament by a one-stroke margin. This snaps a two-year winning streak by Paul Johnson and Jon Barry, and extends the ACC’s winning streak in the tourney to four years. The SEC’s last victories came courtesy of Spurrier and Sharpe in 2008 and 2009. If you like golf words, here are some golf words about the golf that happened. We’ll just be over here marveling at the fury of Golden’s hair.

By Holly Anderson

If you’ve ever wondered what Jim Tressel’s upper arms would look like if he somehow showed up for a game in sweater vest but sans shirt, wonder no longer:

Playing ball! Supporting @thecomeback330 #TCP330 http://t.co/5QCL1MHAJn—
Jim Tressel (@JimTressel5) April 27, 2013

We have at least three weeks’ worth of Sebastian photos on hand, in case this Miami story keeps dragging on. (AP)

Assorted newsy bits — of varying degrees of importance — you might have missed over the long weekend:

• Didn’t we already do this headline a week ago? ”Imminent” can mean a lot of things! In the cosmic sense, the NCAA’s investigation of Miami has spanned less than a fraction of an eyeblink, but here we are, riding on a human-speed space-time wave, just twiddling our bloggy thumbs until the ‘Canes’ notice of allegations drops. The latest rumblings, per Bruce Feldman, involve a very large book being thrown at ex-Miami and current Louisville assistant Clint Hurtt and other former ‘Canes colleagues. We’ll have more on this when we actually see the notice of allegations, unless we don’t see this notice of allegations, in which case we’ll be right back here next Monday writing a third variation on this same headline.

• And speaking of the NCAA: On the final day of the annual NCAA convention, the latest raft of changes — touted as an effort to streamline NCAA regulations — were unveiled. Your friendly neighborhood Bylaw Blogger takes a look at one proposal, regarding recruiting start dates, that was left out of the bundle.

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Florida incoming transfer Darious Cummings is going by “Bear” Cummings. What do you guys want to be called?

— Jason Lieser (@PBPjasonlieser) January 15, 2013

• How would he feel about “Bearious” for more formal occasions? If we’re all supposed to be taking after forest creatures for a fresh new look for spring 2013, we would like to be referred to from here on as “Killer Otter.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

• And speaking of spring. Army’s spring game, which graced our neck of the woods at Fort Benning last year, continues its freshly-established traveling tradition with a March 8 scrimmage set to take place at Fort Hood, Texas.

• The Coliseum just needs a place to crash for a few days, until it gets things figured out. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission is behind in its rent, per the L.A. Times, but once it gets its free-range vegan water bottle business up and running things are really going to turn around. It’s not a pyramid scheme. It’s not!

• That’s a helluva windbreak. Texas Tech approves plans for a “freestanding high-definition video board,” theoretically to be installed and operational in time for the 2013 season.

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Just because Troy Calhoun communicates in a series of airplane noises doesn’t mean you get to call him “Flyboy,” Dave Christensen. (AP)

• So some Mountain West officials walk into an internet café … Dave Christensen getting away with a reprimand for what he said to Troy Calhoun made a lot more sense last week before YouTube video of what Dave Christensen actually said (warning: explicit language) got around. Now that it’s a thing, Christensen will serve a one-week suspension and pay a $50,000 fine. The game he’ll miss will feature his 1-6 Cowboys hosting the 6-1 Boise State Broncos.

• Also double-secret probated. The ACC issued a blanket release covering the various disciplinary actions to be leveled against North Carolina freshman linebacker Shakeel Rashad, two officials from the UNC-Duke game and the entire crew from the FSU-Miami matchup.

• Mark Richt has lost control of … hey, WAIT A MINUTE. Sorry, we just never get to use that joke in real life, and then when we do it feels really weird.

• Bowl projections include forecasts of unceasing sadness. There’s not much we like better than a set of imaginary bowl matchups that includes the phrase “NO ELIGIBLE TEAMS.”

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• Baby Mangino, you had a hell of a run. You achieved internet glory and are surely a robust and take-no-prisoners schoolchild by now. We wish you all the best, and must now pass your mantle to another:

Best Halloween costume ever #ThrowbackThursday #kstate twitpic.com/b59y5x

— D. Scott Fritchen (@DScottFritchen) October 18, 2012

• No. 2 Oregon 43, Arizona State 21. Stewart Mandel took in last night’s carnage in Tempe:

For exactly three plays Thursday, No. 2 Oregon looked mortal. On second down of the Ducks’ first possession, the quarterback fumbled. One play later, Arizona State quarterback Taylor Kelly threw a 28-yard touchdown.

“I don’t know if there can be a worst start,” said Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti. “And then we decided that maybe, possibly we wanted to play today.”

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LSU is No. 1 in the 2012 preseason Coaches’ Poll, and one of five SEC teams in the top 10. (Getty Images)

Gird those irony loins and outrage glands for the release of the first USA Today “Coaches’” Poll of the 2012 season, so named because the sports information directors and other overworked athletic department employees who actually put the ballots together work in the same buildings as football coaches. Five SEC schools made the top 10:

1. LSU (18)
2. Alabama (20)
3. USC (19)
4. Oklahoma
5. Oregon
6. Georgia
7. Florida State
8. Michigan
9. South Carolina
10. Arkansas

The full list is available here, and should provide plenty of lunchtime sniping material. Georgia at six is clearly a function of the schedule, PAAAOWL! Texas is only ranked because it’s Texas, whatever-the-Big-12-equivalent-of-PAAAOWL-is! And Boise State can’t get any respect in 2012, even in imaginary preseason polls, world without end, amen.

Just for fun, we conducted a brief Twitter survey before publishing this post, asking our followers how many coaches they thought filled out their own ballots. Answers ranged from “The ones on a bye week maybe,” to “30%, but none of them actually watch any games before doing so,” to “Randy Edsall for one, who sure ain’t doing nothing else.”

• Tim Beckman Item The First. In a series that should probably have its own blog, we give you the latest edition of College Football Coaches Singing At Wrigley Field. Coach, you have the floor:

His singing is not the strongest. Do not be alarmed. No coach is ever good at this. Admire instead his enthusiasm for the task.

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