Reggie Bush, Andrew Luck Headline 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Ballot
Adam Wells — The 2022 College Football Hall of Fame ballot includes first-time candidates Reggie Bush, Andrew Luck and Marshawn Lynch.
Reggie Bush, USC-Running Back-Two-time First Team All-American, earning consensus honors in 2004 and unanimous accolades in 2005…Named the 2005 Walter Camp Player of the Year and won the 2005 Doak Walker Award…Two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year who led the Trojans to back-to-back national championships.
There are a total of 26 first-time candidates on this year’s ballot, which was released on Wednesday (and also includes Trojan O Coord Graham Harrell):
Per FootballFoundation.org, there are a total of 78 players and seven coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision on the ballot, which also includes USC’s Jeff Bregel and Mark Carrier.
Jeff Bregel, USC-Offensive Guard-Two-time consensus First Team All-American and a 1986 NFF National Scholar-Athlete…Two-time First Team All-Pac-10 selection, leading USC to the 1984 conference title and a Rose Bowl victory…Earned the 1985 Morris Trophy as the league’s most outstanding offensive lineman.
Mark Carrier, USC-Safety-Two-time First Team All-American (1988-89), earning unanimous honors in 1989…1989 Jim Thorpe Award winner as the nation’s top defensive back…Two-time First Team All-Conference selection…Led the Pac-10 in interceptions in 1989 with seven.
There are also 99 players and 33 coaches from the divisional ranks eligible for the 2022 class.
Bush’s window of eligibility would have opened in 2015 based on the normal rules that require a player to be 10 years removed from their final college season, but Stewart Mandel of The Athletic noted USC didn’t nominate him for the Hall of Fame until now because of NCAA sanctions imposed on the program in 2010.
USC officially ended its disassociation with Bush in June 2020, 10 years after the school received a two-year postseason ban, vacated 14 wins between 2004 and 2005 (including the 2004 BCS national championship) and lost 30 scholarships.
Bush also vacated the Heisman Trophy that he won in 2005.
Luck was one of the best college quarterbacks of this generation. He led Stanford to a 31-8 record in three seasons, was named a Heisman finalist in 2010 and 2011, and won the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year award in 2010 and 2011.
Lynch ran for 3,230 yards and 29 touchdowns in three seasons at the University of California. In 2006, he became the first Golden Bears player to be named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year since quarterback Mike Pawlawski (1991).
The 2022 College Football Hall of Fame class will be announced on a date to be determined early next year. The induction ceremony will be held Dec. 6, 2022 at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.Â
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I do not understand how they have not given Bush his trophy back. In today’s society it seems they would want to rewrite the history or do it for racial reasons. I still think an apology by him would go a long long way.
Reggie really made out like a bandit and skated off to a giant signing bonus, a big NFL career with a Super Bowl win, endorsements, fame, a huge injury settlement, and finally TV. In some ways, the only way to get him was to take away his Heisman, which he willingly gave up.
He’ll never apologize IMO. He always said he did nothing wrong (despite throwing back the Heisman), just like Pete Carroll, who like Reggie, played the NCAA like a fiddle. So USC and Todd McNair were left to absorb all the penalities. Nobody ever said life was fair.
i will never forgive him for only paying off 1 of those 2 scum bags so that the problem could go away. With that sum of cash (I heard $300,000 or so), it would have caused very little monetary pain to Reggie and the matter would probably never have seen the light of day. Such a lack of appreciatiom for USC and all it did for him.
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Sports Illustrated’s All49ers Publisher Grant Cohn — “Expect the 49ers to try Talanoa Hufanga at safety initially, but then move him to linebacker sooner rather than later. The 49ers have a history of converting Pac 12 safeties into NFL linebackers.”
Sounds like SW is reporting Toia threw a punch at So’oto.
Great info — if actually true — but you don’t think he’s a big loss anyway, so big deal.
He’ll be at MICH this weekend (after already visiting UCLA) and maybe he’ll get along better with the Wolverine coaches, because it’s also been reported that So’oto singled out Toai for unfair treatment on the field.
If true and he did throw a punch it is a big deal. If true I’m glad he’s gone. I don’t take SW as a real inside USC guy.
unfair treatment usually equals soft kid who can’t hack it
Sorry, I’m not buying “soft” label for Toai. I don’t think the Trojans on the field are either, since he was pushing them all over the lot in the Spring per numerous reports.
Maybe Helton should learn to stop publicly uber-promoting his unhappy future stars. Getting the egg off his face has proven to be impossible.
I watched the spring game, he was good but wasn’t Warren Sapp. I think you have prisoner of the moment mindset where anything and everything USC is worst possible case.
also, Helton literally promotes everyone like a sure fire all American, it’s just how he is. I don’t listen, I trust the assistants if I want to hear some truth.
Wrong. Helton does not obsequiously and publicly fawn over every frosh like he did Toia. Not even close, so I have no idea how you came up with that falsehood.
And if you read me more closely and open-mindedly, you would see that I consistently say plenty of positives about USC football, and other Trojan sports in general. So you’re wrong about that too.
Then you don’t pay attention to Helton interviews. He fawns over everyone. You’re wrong.
You already said you don’t listen to Helton, so you wouldn’t know.
Ok you’re always right. I will go in the corner and feel shame.
Do whatever you want. Fight On! ✌
Bleacher Report’s Top 25 CFB coaches (Pac-12 picks, plus Lane Kiffin) — “The order is subjective but uses recent performances, career accomplishments and recruiting success as factors. Additionally, program history is considered. Winning at Kentucky or Vanderbilt, for example, is historically a major challenge.” Tier 5: The Recent Risers 24. Lane Kiffin, Mississippi Kiffin reignited his coaching career as Alabama’s offensive coordinator in 2014 and has since enjoyed a steady rise. He earned a pair of Conference USA titles at Florida Atlantic from 2017-19 and immediately turned Ole Miss into one of the nation’s most productive offenses last season. Tier 4:… Read more »
The new Pac 12 Commissioner has a tough job! He has 12 teams, no coaches in the top 10, and his two main media brands are coached by an incompetent (Helton) who is as much as media disaster as he is a HC failure and a failed surly coach with negative media value (Chipster). And, right now, he has zero elite teams, and realistically three in the top 25 (Oregon, ASU and Utah/UCLA).
Very tough times for most every single Pac-12 team — except ORE. I actually think the Pac-12 will start rebounding because of massively increased pressure throughout the conference to win in football. The new Commish has already publicly said that it’s football that really counts from now on. This weakness has gone on for so long that people with a lot to lose are taking more notice than ever before, and that includes USC. Both Herm Edwards and Choc Chip Kelly are still left out of the top 25. Helton will never get there, but both of those coaches might… Read more »
Scott Frost’s problems at NEB (The Athletic). He’s heading into Year 4: “The problems start with retention. Shifting philosophies — from the previous staff to this regime and then around the offensive skill spots — have fanned the transfer flames. Eighteen scholarship players left the program in 2020, and 12 with remaining eligibility have entered the transfer portal in 2021. “If it’s a problem with evaluations in recruiting, the task has grown even more difficult since March 2020. Nebraska’s 2022 class is slow in coming together, and four four-star prospects from the Omaha area eliminated the Huskers early in their… Read more »
I really missed on Scott. He was a former Nebraska star in his own right — and had some HC successes.
Along with the article’s point-of-view, recruiting must be really tough given the Husker’s location. Joining the Big-10 didn’t help either — and it degraded the Big12 national games of interest (e.g., Oklahoma vs Nebraska). JMHO
At least OU is playing NEB this year (Sept. 18, Norman). CFB needs that game.
And I agree. Leaving the Big 12 was just a horrible, horrible decision by NEB, and they’ve been paying for it ever since, and probably will continue to do so.
I don’t think this season looks promising for Frost with away games at ILL, OU, MICH ST, MINN and WIS. Whew!
Former USC wide receiver Munir McClain announced his commitment to Utah on Wednesday.
Seemed like a talented guy. USC grows WRs on trees, though. No harm, no foul.
Not having Chris on the ballot is a travesty. Incredible.
Something’s just so wrong with that omission.
It boggles the mind to think a USC Butkus Award winner who had six picks as a LB in ’98, just got fully ghosted by those responsible for the 2022 CFB HOF ballot. Nothing seems immune from being intentionally messed up these days.