Before I head over to the Nutter Training Facility for the first day of fall camp, here are a couple of notes you may be interested in:

• USA Today released its Coaches Poll on Thursday with Oklahoma grabbing the top spot to start the season. The Sooners, who garnered 42 of the 59 first-place votes, were followed by Alabama (13 first-place votes), Oregon (two), LSU (two) and Florida State. Although UK didn’t receive a vote, eight Southeastern Conference teams made the top 25 with a ninth team, Tennessee, earning seven votes. To give you an idea of how tough UK’s schedule is, after facing Louisville on Sept. 17, UK will face three consecutive top-25 foes in No. 23Florida (Sept. 24) at No. 4 LSU (Oct. 1) and at No. 12 South Carolina. (Oct. 8).

• UK men’s basketball junior Jon Hood tweeted Thursday morning that he was scheduled to have surgery soon on his injured right knee. Hood tore his anterior cruciate ligament in mid-July but has been unable to go under the knife because of swelling in the knee. In the meantime, Hood has been seen around the Joe Craft Center walking with a pretty bulky knee brace. No timetable has been given for Hood’s return and he hasn’t been ruled out for the 2011-12 season, but most torn ACLs usually take at least six months to fully recover from.