Tennessee football has a new name on the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame ballot.
Defensive tackle John Henderson is on the ballot for the first time. Tennessee coach Josh Heupel, a former national champion quarterback at Oklahoma, is also on the ballot for the fifth straight year as a player. Wide receivers Willie Gault and Larry Seivers are also in consideration again. Heupel, Gault and Seivers were all on the ballot last year.
There are 77 players and nine coaches from the FBS on the 2025 ballot, and the class will be announced in early 2025. The induction ceremony will be held during the NFF annual awards dinner on Dec. 9, 2025 in Las Vegas.
Henderson, who played at UT from 1998-2001, was a two-time consensus first-team All-American, Citrus Bowl defensive MVP and the 2000 SEC Defensive Player of the Year. The dominant defensive lineman won the 2000 Outland Trophy and set a school record for fewest rushing yards allowed (817) in 2000. He was a high school star at Pearl-Cohn in Nashville.
Heupel, a 2000 consensus first-team All-American and Heisman Trophy runner-up, led Oklahoma to the 2000 national championship after winning the Orange Bowl. Heupel was a Walter Camp Player of the Year and Big 12 Player of the Year and left the Sooners as the leader in almost every school passing record even though he only played two seasons.
Gault led Tennessee to three bowl berths during his career from 1979-82. He set six conference punt and kickoff return records and tied the NCAA record for most kickoff return touchdowns in a single season (three) in 1980. A 1982 first-team All-American, Gault had 82 catches for 1,482 yards and 10 receiving touchdowns in his career.
He was also a prolific hurdler and sprinter for Tennessee. Gault finished his career with the Vols holding 12 school records in football and three in track and…
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Publish date : 2024-06-03 15:48:34
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