These players hold the credentials that have been proven indicators for enshrinement.
Alabama running back Mark Ingram carries the football during an SEC game against Auburn on Nov. 26, 2010, at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa.coach Nick Saban. Nominated for the honor for the first class after his retirement, Saban seems like a lock to be enshrined with the next group of Hall of Famers., and one of them also appears to be sure to end up in the College Football Hall of Fame – maybe not this year, but certainly eventually.
A Florida standout, Tebow joins Auburn’s Pat Sullivan and Bo Jackson, Florida’s Steve Spurrier and Danny Wuerffel, Georgia’s Frank Sinkwich and Herschel Walker and LSU’s Billy Cannon as the SEC’s Heisman Trophy winners in the College Football Hall of Fame.Anderson isn’t eligible for consideration for the College Football Hall of Fame yet.
The first 17 players to win those three awards in the same season are in the College Football Hall of Fame. That list includes former SEC stars Herschel Walker of Georgia and Danny Wuerffel of Florida. Walker won the three awards in 1982, and Wuerffel did so in 1996. Of the 24 Maxwell Award winners in this century, 12 did not win the Heisman Trophy. Three of those Maxwell winners aren’t eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame because they were not first-team All-American choices by a consensus selector. Those Maxwell winners who can’t be enshrined are Purdue quarterback Drew Brees from 2000, Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning from 2003 and Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn from 2006.
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