B/R 5th Down: Urban Meyer Lifts OSU's Ban on Blue, Dabo Swinney Goes Undercover

Editor's Note: Bleacher Report's 5th Down captures the top social college football stories of the week. As this long, bitter offseason continues, we'll focus on moments from the schools, coaches and players that kept us entertained as we wait for actual college football to make its highly anticipated return.

1. Ohio State's ban on blue to be lifted for one special day

Don't wear the color blue around head coach Urban Meyer or Ohio State's football facility. Lou Holtz learned that the hard way, as well as one unfortunate Ohio State student at a scrimmage earlier this year.

Meyer has banned blue—the main color of hated rival Michigan—at practices and events with his Buckeyes, but he's going to make an extremely rare exception this upcoming week.

According to Bob Hunter of the Columbus Dispatch, Meyer will allow his players to wear red, white and blue for a workout on the Friday before Memorial Day. The special workout will cap a "Patriot Week" of seminars about voting and democracy. Meyer explained:

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That's going to be what we call a Memorial Day workout. The players are going to be wearing red, white and blue, and we'll have some fun with it. They'll also take a test on what they’ve learned the previous four days, and before they leave on Friday for the holiday weekend, they've got to pass that test.

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Hunter writes that Meyer will make a special exception for the usually forbidden blue on that Friday. After that, though, expect the hatred of the hue to resume normal operations at Ohio State.

2. Dabo Swinney becomes an "Undercover Boss"

Clemson is building a stunning new football complex, and head coach Dabo Swinney decided to have a little fun while giving an update on the construction's progress.

The Tigers spoofed the CBS show Undercover Boss by sending Swinney into the construction crew as "Fred from Albuquerque," complete with a hilarious fake mustache:

While Swinney doesn't quite make for a believable construction worker, his interactions with the crew are quite funny, especially the outtakes at the end of the video. The foreman who told "Fred" that Swinney wasn't that great of a dancer deserves some sort of acting award. 

Swinney is one of the most entertaining coaches in college football, and he might have a future in acting once his football days are finished. Construction? Not so much.

3. Marco Rubio wants a Tim Tebow statue in the U.S. Capitol 

The state of Florida is looking for a new statue to represent itself in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall after removing a long-standing one of a Confederate general. 

Florida state senator and former presidential candidate Marco Rubio has what he thinks is the perfect replacement idea—a statue of Florida Gators football legend and Sunshine State native Tim Tebow:

Rubio is a huge Florida football fan, and Alex Kirshner of SB Nation noted earlier this month that the senator used to live-tweet Gators games from his account. He mostly sticks to nonsports tweets these days, but he made a special exception for this statue debate.

Unfortunately for Rubio and any Gator fans jumping on board with this idea, Florida's online survey states that it will only consider Floridians who have "been deceased for 10 years or more, as of January 1, 2017." Tebow is, of course, alive and working as an analyst for the SEC Network.

Don't worry, though, senator. Tebow already has a statue in Gainesville.

4. Top class of 2017 recruit pulls off incredible juke

Najee Harris, a 5-star running back and Alabama commit, didn't necessarily need more attention heading into The Opening regional in Oakland this past weekend.

But the nation's No. 1 overall recruit made sure everybody knew who he was with this stunning juke of a helpless defender during a one-on-one drill, as B/R The Future shared on Twitter:

Harris, a 6'2", 220-pound running back from Antioch, California, has been committed to the Crimson Tide for more than a year. While he is more known for his immense size and power out of the backfield, he definitely has the moves to embarrass defenders and run past them, captured here by Bleacher Report's Sanjay Kirpalani:

Harris' highlight-heavy weekend in Oakland showed why Alabama was high on him early on in his recruitment, and why top programs from all over the country want to get him to flip his commitment.

5. Virginia head coach Bronco Mendenhall is living in an RV

Bronco Mendenhall made a big move this offseason, deciding to take the head coaching job at Virginia after a long tenure at BYU.

It was also a huge move for Mendenhall's wife and his three sons, who are now all living in an RV, according to a great feature story from Andrea Adelson of ESPN.com: 

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Mendenhall, who drives a motorcycle to work, surfs and owns livestock, is not somebody you would call conventional. He tried the old standby coaching move of landing in a hotel for a while with his family. But as nice as the local Residence Inn was, it wasn't long until the Mendenhalls agreed to an unorthodox idea from Dad: Let's move into an RV!

Mendenhall had assistant coach Marques Hagans drive him an hour to Richmond to pick up the Fuzion Chrome 44-foot fifth-wheel camper, a sweet temporary family home that came in two different shades of blue.

He parked the RV on the property of their future home in Ivy, Virginia. (They're having the property completely renovated, which was slated to take five months.) 

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In a time when Power Five head coaches get multimillions each year from their respective programs, hearing about one living in an RV with his family is quite strange. But the Mendenhalls are making it work—even the long trips across the property to the bathroom of their under-renovation house.

"You trek across the property," Mendenhall told Adelson. "I walked across one night in just my underwear, but no one's out there. ... When that room is targeted for demolition, we hope the hot water's working in the RV by then."

Hey, it beats living in a van down by the river.

6. Houston's mayor predicts a huge UH win over Oklahoma

In a week in which ESPN announced the kickoff time for Houston's Week 1 showdown with Oklahoma, the mayor of the Cougars' hometown is standing firm with his bold prediction for the game.

Houston mayor Sylvester Turner told the University of Houston Magazine's Mike Emery earlier this year he would be at Houston's opener against the defending Big 12 champions, and predicted that Cougars "[will] win by 14 or possibly 21 points."

After the kickoff time of 11 a.m. CT was announced last week, Eric Bailey of the Tulsa World contacted Turner to see if he would be at his alma mater's opener—even with the earlier-than-expected start. Turner confirmed he would be there and didn't back down from his score prediction.

"It is not a subjective assessment," Turner told Bailey. "I’m being very objective. They are just that good!"

Houston is coming off a 13-1 campaign that featured an AAC title and a Peach Bowl victory over Florida State, so Turner should have plenty to be excited about in 2016. But the visiting Sooners went to the College Football Playoff last year and will undoubtedly be the favorites coming into Houston.

Plenty of opinions and picks for Oklahoma-Houston will fly between now and this September matchup at NRG Stadium. But it'll be hard to find a prediction as bold as this one from Houston's proud mayor.

7. Nick Chubb's knee surgery scar is gnarly

Georgia star running back Nick Chubb went down with a devastating knee injury early in a game last season against Tennessee, and he's still on the long road to recovery.

This past week, Bulldogs fan Greg Jones snapped and tweeted a picture of Chubb alongside a young supporter at a Georgia baseball game. Jones' picture gave everyone a close look at just how jaw-dropping Chubb's scar is from the major knee surgery:

Chubb has been one of the best running backs in college football over the last two seasons when healthy, and the Bulldogs are hoping he'll be back in time for the season opener in September against North Carolina. He's worked hard this offseason to make it back in time, giant scar and all. 

8. Steve Spurrier jabs Ole Miss and rocks a sweet jacket

The concept of a college football commissioner is becoming a hot topic this offseason, with media members everywhere wanting coaches' opinions on if they would want one.

That extends to former coaches, too, as the great Steve Spurrier was asked about it—and his interest in the job—at last week's Regions Tradition pro-am golf tournament in Birmingham, Alabama. His response was vintage Spurrier, as he took a shot at a former conference foe in the SEC: 

"That sounds like a lot of work, traveling around the country trying to keep up with Ole Miss and whoever else has been under investigation right now," Spurrier says in the above video from Nic Gulas of WIAT-TV. "But that might be something that would be good for college football, to have one guy with some common sense make decisions."

Later in the week, Spurrier showed that there probably wouldn't be a better-dressed candidate for college football commissioner than the Head Ball Coach himself. Spurrier was spotted by Baltimore Sun reporter Colin Campbell at the Preakness Stakes wearing a black fedora and a slick lemon-colored jacket:

If swag is on the checklist of a hypothetical commissioner, college football already has a winner.

9. And, finally, Frank Beamer is doing retirement the right way

Frank Beamer was a college football coach for a long, long time. Before he was Virginia Tech's head man from 1987 to 2015, he spent several years as a head coach at Murray State and nearly a decade as an assistant.

Coaching football is in his blood, so it wouldn't be a stretch to say his first few months away from the job would be tough on him. People come to grips with retirement in different ways.

Well, as a viral picture of Beamer from this past Saturday shows, he's handling post-coaching life the right way. Beamer was spotted by a fan getting a pedicure and drinking what appears to be a Cook-Out milkshake:

That is the picture of a retired legend and noted milkshake fan who is straight-up crushing life right now. And, trust me, if Beamer was enjoying a Peanut Butter Banana shake from Cook-Out, I can guarantee that no one in these United States was having a better Saturday than him.

Recruiting info courtesy of 247Sports unless otherwise noted. 

Justin Ferguson is a National College Football Analyst at Bleacher Report, and he wants to know where Steve Spurrier got that yellow jacket. You can follow him on Twitter @JFergusonBR.