If becoming the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy weren't enough, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel is certainly showing off his athletic prowess this offseason.

The rising sophomore signal-caller for the Aggies—who set the SEC's single-season total offense record last year with 5,116 yards—shot a 79 at Pebble Beach Golf Links located near Monterey, Calif., last week. 

But that was just the beginning.

Manziel moved down the coast a bit this week to work on his passing motion with noted quarterback coach George Whitfield Jr. He then took a break from training in the ocean—yes, that actually happened—to take batting practice before a San Diego Padres game.

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Every Thursday on The SEC Blog, we will feature questions from the Bleacher Report inbox, Twitter and email at bsallee@bleacherreport.com. Q and A was pushed back to Friday this week due to NFL draft and BCS meetings coverage.

You have SEC questions, and I have SEC answers. Thank you, everybody for your questions this week. If I didn't get to them, they will be saved and used in the future.

And we're off:

If you ask Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops, he'd probably say it's Alabama and everybody else. That's not true though. Here's how I'd rank them right now.

Contenders: Alabama, Texas A&M, LSU, Georgia, South Carolina

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The next big administrative battle on the college football front is the composition of the playoff selection committee, which will decide the participants of the four-team playoff starting after the 2014 season.

My colleague Michael Felder over at Your Best 11 speculated on some potential candidates earlier this month, and Tony Barnhart over at CBSSports.com did the same this week.

The ACC's head football coaches want a say as well, in the form of one vote per coach in the USA Today Coaches' Poll, according to ESPN.com.

Duke head coach David Cutcliffe is the coaches' chair, and spoke on the matter on Wednesday:

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Scheduling has become a hot-button issue, especially during this age of re-alignment.

Will there be a nine-game SEC schedule? Will Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) games be eliminated from the schedule of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams?

Those questions remain unanswered, but Georgia is apparently ready for whatever scheduling curveball comes its way.

News broke from the ACC spring meetings about a potential 2016 neutral-site game between the Bulldogs and the Florida State Seminoles, according to Coley Harvey of the Orlando Sentinel.

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Miami can probably claim the title, USC could have some say and Auburn would likely carry the torch for the SEC, but there's no denying that Alabama's recent success on the ground has established the Crimson Tide as the most successful "Running Back U" over the last six years.

Since head coach Nick Saban took over the program in 2007, five different Crimson Tide running backs have topped the 1,000-yard mark on the ground, three of whom—Eddie Lacy, Trent Richardson and Mark Ingram—have been selected in the first two rounds of the NFL draft.

In 2009, Mark Ingram became the first Alabama player to ever win the Heisman Trophy.

Not a bad run, and the best may be yet to come.

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Florida's coaching staff found plenty of live microphones on Tuesday, causing quite a stir in the process.

While head coach Will Muschamp was in Jacksonville, Fla. calling out the Georgia Bulldogs, offensive line coach Tim Davis was about 175 miles south in Melbourne taking aim at the SEC's most successful active coach—Alabama's Nick Saban.

Davis, who was speaking to the Space Coast Gator Club, took several shots at Saban, including making jokes about the fact that his last name is similar to "satan" (via: GatorBait.net).

Davis worked with Saban from 2005-06 with the Miami Dolphins, and he was on Alabama's staff in an off-the-field capacity as director of player personnel in 2008.

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There's nothing like a little smack talk at a booster club meeting to add a little fun to the doldrums of the offseason. 

Oklahoma's Bob Stoops stepped up last week when he took shots at the SEC, and was followed closely by Kansas' Charlie Weis.

Florida head coach Will Muschamp got into the mix on Tuesday. Only this time, he took aim at a team within his own conference.

While speaking to the Gator Club of Jacksonville (Fla.) at the Jacksonville Fair and Expo Center, Muschamp took aim at his alma mater—the Georgia Bulldogs—who have won two straight over Florida after winning only three of the previous 21 meetings (via Florida Times-Union):

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"If you're not cheating, you're not trying."

It's a cliché, but in recent years, we've seen several of college football's top teams become embroiled in various levels of cheating scandals.

Miami has been battling with the NCAA over the Nevin Shapiro case for about two years now, Oregon has been playing with the Willie Lyles cloud hanging over its head for two seasons, and Auburn's 2010 national title team has had claims of improprieties swirling over its crystal football since November of 2010 when the Cam Newton recruiting scandal story broke.

That old adage is correct.

If you're looking for a team that is squeaky clean, you'll be looking for quite some time.

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