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Top 5 moments from Inside The Office

Each week during the regular season, we featured a guided tour inside the office of a different FBS head coach. The offices spanned from the modest to the majestic, but all of them held their own unique trophies, tributes, mementos and memorabilia.

Here's a brief selection of our favorite moments from throughout the season.

1. Spurrier and Saban talk golf

Outside of their success and longevity, Steve Spurrier and Bill Snyder wouldn't appear to have that much in common, but both coaches keep a golf bag just to the left of their desk. The difference is Snyder hasn't had the time to even fill it with his clubs while Spurrier always seems to find time.

"I've gotten to play about every great course there is," Spurrier said in the feature. "I know it drives these other coaches crazy when they're sleeping in their offices and read about how I'm out playing golf all the time. Make sure Coach [Nick] Saban reads this."

Later in the season, Saban got a chance to respond.

"I don't play any golf during the season, man," Saban said. "When does [Spurrier] find time to play golf? I don't even have time to do this interview."

2. Chris Petersen's shower interview

Washington's head coach has an office equipped with a shower. We're pretty sure this was the first time he used it.

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Inside the Office: Petersen's Shower

Being a college football head coach comes with some nice perks. Like a shower in your office. Washington head coach Chris Petersen pulls back the curtain and takes you where no one has been before.

3. Ohio State's Nike mockup

Sharp viewers of the feature on Urban Meyer noticed what appeared to be a mockup from Nike of a potential black uniform variant for Ohio State. A write-up by the Buckeyes blog Eleven Warriors drew enough attention to the mockup to warrant a comment from the university saying it was not considering using the jerseys.

4. Stoops' boxing buddy

A look into the office of the Oklahoma head coach revealed Stoops' friendship with Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, who grew up in the same neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio, as Stoops. The coach tells it best:

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Inside the Office: Stoops and Boom Boom Mancini

Sooners head coach Bob Stoops tells the story behind the picture of him and boxing legend Ray Boom Boom Mancini that is hanging in his office.

5. Bill Snyder's trophies

What do you get for the coach who has everything? Many coaches in this feature have fully stocked trophy cases, and nearly half have won a coach of the year award at some point. So what makes Kansas State's coach different?

For starters, he doesn't keep them in a polished display fit for a museum. He leaves them on the floor. Next to a bookcase full of career mementos lies a plaque commemorating him as a member of the Big 12 Legends' inaugural class. It's still wrapped in cellophane.

Just behind it rests a clock he received for winning the 1993 Copper Bowl. Compared to today's ostentatious bowl trophies, it looks like a C-minus wood shop project. But it means a lot to Snyder.

"It was the first bowl victory for us at Kansas State," Snyder said. "I was so proud of our fan base. We had more than 22,000 there, and at that time, that was an awful lot. We had a pep rally at the hotel, and we had somewhere around 5,000 people. We had no way to get them all in. That meant a lot to our players, team and coaches. Our kids prepared well and played well, and obviously we won the ballgame. It was our first bowl win, so it was significant and something I'll never forget."

For a look at all 15 offices, click here.