It was a year of 10,000 stories in and around college football in 2015. There were great plays made by great players, and there were plenty of magical and emotional moments to keep us entertained.

We’re culling the list down to the 50 best stories of the year. Here are the first five in our series on the greatest moments of 2015:

50. Meet Nick Saban, teary-eyed father of the bride

There is no doubt – make that absolutely no doubt – that Nick Saban is the most intimidating figure in college football. We’ve seen him be hard on the media, hard on his players, hard on referees, hard on even his own assistant coaches.

So can you imagine being the kid that comes to him, asking for permission to marry his daughter?

Adam Setas asked, Saban said yes and this June and and Kristen Saban were married. And with the blessed day, we saw a different side of Nick Saban.

“Any guy is going to be nervous when you’re asking for your future wife’s dad if you can marry her, regardless of who her dad is,” Setas told AL.com earlier this year.

Saban teared up during his speech at the wedding reception, a thing that Kristen interpreted as a sign that her dad believes she and Adam are a perfect match.

“At our wedding, he said that he is proud to have Adam join our family and that he was gaining a son,” Kristen told Ivana Hrynkiw of AL.com after the wedding. “He admires watching how Adam makes me better and how I make Adam better, and how fun it is to be around us seeing us make each other happy. He calls us ‘the sweethearts.'”

The lovely bride! #setonsetas #sabantosetas

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Saban danced the Electric Slide, learned The Wobble and some Greek dances (his son-in-law is Greek.)

“He is just so funny… he’s silly,” Setas said. “Kristen says she is the one who made him funny.”

Saban silly? Saban funny? That’s something different.

“I was just really excited and happy. We’ve known this young man [Adam Setas] for a long time. They actually rode the school bus together when they were five years old [when I was] at Michigan State. I didn’t feel like we were losing a daughter. We were gaining a son,” Saban told Dan Patrick.

And Saban says he doesn’t get the intimidator role. “No, I don’t realize that. I still feel like I’m a kid from West Virginia. It’s hard for me to understand why anyone would be intimidated.”

49. Mississippi State tragedy

Tragedy struck the Mississippi State campus in early November when defensive lineman Keith Joseph Jr., was killed in an automobile accident.

His father – Keith Joseph Sr., a former Bulldogs linebacker, also died in the crash. Keith Joseph Jr. signed with Mississippi State last February and was redshirting this season. Keith Joseph Sr. played for the Bulldogs from 1989-92 and ranks 10th all-time in school history with 14 sacks.

The Josephs were on their way to watch a high school football game at their alma mater, Pascagoula (Miss.) High School. The deaths gripped the close-knit Starkville campus.

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Fellow MSU freshman Jamal Peters wore Joseph’s No. 99 jersey in the following game against Alabama to honor his friend. Defensive backs don’t normally wear high numbers like that, but no one objected.

48. Kansas State band

There’s always a college band or two that gets out of line during the season at some point. But Kansas State took the cake this year.

The band was attempting to pull off a march where it looked, in their words, like the Starship Enterprise was attacking the Kansas Jayhawk, their arch rival. But it didn’t look like that to anyone who watched from above. It looked more like the private male anatomy poking the Jayhawk, if you get the drift.

The Twitter world had a field day with this one, of course. Many tweets aren’t suitable for viewership, of course. And action from the K-State administration was swift.

47. Chad Kelly

It’s been a heck of a year for Ole Miss quarterback Chad Kelly. He had a great season, beating Alabama and LSU and earning a Sugar Bowl berth while throwing for 3,740 yards and 27 touchdowns.

It took a heck of a lot to get there, though.

First there was an arrest in Buffalo last December for throwing punches and a bouncer in a bar, then being verbally abusive to authorities when they arrived.  It raised massive red flags in Oxford, because Kelly had already been booted off the Clemson campus by Dabo Sweeney for often violating team rules. Kelly got a non-criminal disorderly conduct charge and 50 hours of community service.

It didn’t end there. There were plenty of critics who roasted coach Hugh Freeze for letting Kelly enroll in January just weeks after the arrest. “We’re in it together,” Freeze said, vowing to keep an eye on his quarterback. A few others jumped on Freeze for taking Kelly on his annual spring break trip to Haiti.

He watched him, alright when the season started. Kelly had one of the best years in Ole Miss history. There was the historic win over Alabama, the first time Ole Miss had beaten them twice in a row and only the second time in 27 tries that they had won in Tuscaloosa.

There was the meltdown at Florida and Memphis that quickly forced Ole Miss to fall from No. 3 in the rankings. But there was the rally at the end, overcoming the Arkansas OT loss where Kelly still threw for six touchdowns to beat LSU and Mississippi State to end the season.

All the touchdowns will be remembered, but so will the sweeping under the rug of the criminal charges.

46. Alabama bad news

Alabama won the SEC West, beating Florida in the SEC Championship Game and made it back to the College Football Playoff for the second straight year.

But it wasn’t all good news.

There was the mysterious death of 20-year-old former Alabama RB Altee Tenpenny, who was suffering from a serious mental disorder and died in a car crash. He stepped into oncoming traffic on one occasion, discharged a gun another time before how was found dead. It was tough on his former teammates.

There were also several arrests of players. Defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor was dismissed from the team in March after a domestic voiolence arrest. Cyrus Jones becomes the fourth Alabama player to be arrested during the offseason, getting arrested in April on a domestic violence charge, as well. Defensive back Geno Smith was arrested for DUI and remains on the team. Running back Tyren Jones was arrested for marijuana.