Today at Newsroom seems to be all about beating the odds. We kicked it all off with Steve Novick, then we introduced you to Bonnie Richardson, and now…a college freshman who’s just been elected mayor.

What?? How the heck is that possible? Well, seems totally do-able to the residents of, uh, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Looks like the city has elected 19-year-old University of Oklahoma freshman John Tyler Hammons as mayor. For real. And save your Muskogee jokes: with a population of 38,000, running the city is no small job.

So how’d Hammons win? According to AP, “a key to his platform that resonated with voters was openness of government and keeping citizens better informed of city operations.” Yeah, they don’t seem to know either. We do, however, know some of the winning campaign slogans: “New Century, New Ideas” and (our fave) “I’m Proud to be an Okie from Muskogee.”

But having only completed his first year of college — and off in the city of Norman, OK, to boot — what will happen to the rest of his higher education? Rest easy: the frosh mayor-elect says he’ll balance politics and school life by moving to a university closer to his new mayor-dom.