A trio of Oklahoma Sooners players are once again on the 2026 College Football Hall of Fame ballot.
After also being included on last year’s ballot, quarterback Josh Heupel and linebackers Rocky Calmus and George Cumby are back on the list for induction into the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.
In all, 79 FBS players and 10 head coaches are on this year’s ballot for induction into the Hall, as well as 100 players and 35 coaches from all other divisions. Votes will be tabulated from among the more than 12,000 NFF members and Hall of Famers and submitted to the NFF Honors Court, which will deliberate and select the next class, which will be revealed in January.
Over the years, OU has had 30 players and four coaches inducted into the Hall. The most recent inductee is defensive lineman Dewey Selmon in 2024.
Heupel was the first starting quarterback of the Bob Stoops era in 1999. After playing college football for Weber State in 1996 and 1997 and Snow College (a community college) in 1998, he transferred to Oklahoma for his final two collegiate seasons.
After guiding the Sooners to a 7-5 record in 1999, the Aberdeen, South Dakota native helped lead OU to an undefeated 13-0 record and a consensus national championship in 2000. He was the runner-up in Heisman Trophy voting after an excellent season in Year 2 under Stoops. Heupel helped usher in the Air Raid offense to Oklahoma, a place that had relied heavily on the triple option for its entire history up until 1999. The Sooners have been running some form of the Air Raid or Spread offenses ever since.
Despite going undrafted, Heupel spent time with the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and Green Bay Packers, but never saw the field in the pros from 2001 to 2002. He returned to OU as a grad assistant in 2004 before coaching tight ends at Arizona in 2005 under head…
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