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National Football Foundation presents Good in the Game - 9/17

Tim Couch reminisces about his seat in the NFF College Football Hall of Fame!

September 17, 2024

Good morning, football fans! There’s been a shake-up at the top of this week’s FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll!

Another honor for a quintet of National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Famers!

Five members of the NFF College Football Hall of Fame are set to be honored once again in their home state of California!

The Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation, on behalf of the California Interscholastic Federation and the National Football Foundation, have announced the second-ever class of the California High School Football Hall of Fame, which includes Edwin “Babe” Horrell (1969 inductee from Cal), Donn Moomaw (1973, UCLA), Craig Morton (1992, Cal), Ron Pritchard (2003, Arizona State) and Ed White (1999, Cal).

Click here for more information on five of the best football players to come out of the Golden State!

There’s a new No. 1 in this week’s FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll!

Check out the Week 3 Super 16 Poll, put together by the Football Writers of Association of America and the National Football Foundation, to find out who took over the top spot.

And get this — it’s the first time this program has ever earned the top spot!

The NFF is celebrating the College Football Hall of Fame On-Campus Salutes all season long!

Frank Solich — Nebraska (1998-2003), Ohio (2005-2020)

Coach Frank Solich was honored during Nebraska's home game against Colorado on Sept. 7. L-R: Eric Crouch*, Grant Wistrom*, Johnny Rodgers*, Fidelity Investments® Vice President Jessica Polster, NFF Director of Special Projects Hillary Jeffries, Solich's wife Pamela, Solich, Coach Tom Osborne*, Athletics Director Troy Dannen, Tommie Frazier*. Other family, friends, and former players teammates also appear in the background. *College Football Hall of Fame inductee.

Former Nebraska head coach Frank Solich was honored during the Cornhuskers’ Sept. 7 home game against Colorado for his 2024 induction into the NFF College Football Hall of Fame!

Steve Hutchinson — OG, Michigan (1997-2000)

Steve Hutchinson was honored, along with Michigan Athletics Director Warde Manuel (2024 NFF John L. Toner Award recipient), during Michigan's home game against Texas on Sept. 7. L-R: Fidelity Investments® Senior Vice President Jim McAloon, Manuel, NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell, Hutchinson, and NFF Trustee and FOX Sports CEO and Executive Producer Eric Shanks.

Former Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year Steve Hutchinson was honored during Michigan’s Sept. 7 home game against Texas for his 2024 induction into the NFF College Football Hall of Fame!

Tim Couch — QB, Kentucky (1996-98)

Tim Couch was honored during Kentucky's home game against Georgia on Sept. 14. L-R: Fidelity Investments® Fidelity Investments Head of Relationship Management for Tax-Exempt Markets Scott Senseney, NFF COO Matthew Sign, Couch, and Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart.

Tim Couch, a consensus First Team All-American and SEC Player of the Year in 1998, was honored at Kentucky’s Sept. 14 home game against Georgia for his 2024 induction to the NFF College Football Hall of Fame!

Learn more about the game with CFO’s Steve Shaw

The NFF works with College Football Officiating (CFO) throughout the year to make the game better and safer. As part of the relationship, the NFF is pleased to share with our readers the most recent CFO-NCAA Media Video, explaining some of the recent play calls in college football.

COME JOIN US IN LAS VEGAS!

The 66th National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner presented by Las Vegas will be here before we know it, and tickets are going fast — buy yours now to ensure you get the NFF discounted rate!

Team LeGrand just wrapped up the 14th annual “A Walk to Believe” at The Rutgers Boardwalk, with over 1,000 participants raising more than $120k!

Eric LeGrand launched Team LeGrand, a fundraising arm of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, to help individuals living with spinal cord injury and their families by supporting quality of life initiatives and emerging therapies that will get us to the end zone — cures for spinal cord injuries.

Photo: The Athletic

Wisconsin football fans weren’t “jumping around” 96 years ago, when Alabama first traveled to Madison to take on the Badgers.

The game meant just as much back in 1928, though, as Jesse Temple writes in The Athletic.

Photo: Angela Piazza/Caller-Times

Half a dozen, full of hope!

Benavides (Texas) High School has faced a dwindling enrollment in recent years and as such, has made the switch to six-man football. In the midst of their second year in the new style of play, there’s growing hope within the program and the community.

Photo: Jason Snow/The Patriot Ledger

Growing up in Paris, Effrem Gnepo had always just played soccer.

Seeing an Odell Beckham Jr. highlight during the pandemic changed everything, though. The next logical step for Gnepo? Move to the United States to live with relatives, learn English, and learn the intricacies of offensive line play!

John Markas, an All-American guard for Duke in the early 1960s under head coach Bill Murray, has passed away. He was 84.

Rex Adams, a Rhodes Scholar and letterman at Duke in the early 1960s, has passed away. He was 84.

Charles Wesley Moore, a Hall of Fame coach at Bethune-Cookman where he compiled a 27-6-1 record in three seasons, has passed away. He was 84.

Joe Schmidt, an All-American linebacker at Pitt in the early 1950s and member of the NFF College Football Hall of Fame Class of 2000, has passed away. He was 92.

Kevin Long, a running back for the South Carolina Gamecocks in the 1970s and member of the South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame, has passed away. He was 69.

Greg Harden, a long-time University of Michigan administrator best known as the mental coach for thousands of student-athletes, has passed away. He was 75.

“I read the first line where it said, ‘Congratulations, you’ve been selected to the 2024 College Football Hall of Fame class,’ and I couldn’t get through the rest of it, I was so excited.”

Let former Kentucky quarterback and 2024 NFF College Football Hall of Fame inductee Tim Couch tell the story of how he found out he would be enshrined forever!

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