Hokies great Michael Vick was among the players listed on the 2024 College Football Hall of Fame ballot.
The ballot, which was released by the National Football Foundation on Monday, has 78 players and nine coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision, with 101 players and 32 coaches from lower-division ranks.
Vick, who quarterbacked Virginia Tech to the cusp of the national championship in the 1999 season and finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting that year, is making his debut on the ballot.
“It's an enormous honor to just be on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot considering more than 5.62 million people have played college football and only 1,074 players have been inducted," NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell said in a news release. "Being in today's elite group means an individual is truly among the greatest to have ever played the game."
To be eligible, players must have received first-team All-America recognition by a selector recognized by the NCAA (Vick was a first-team pick by Sporting News in 1999) and have concluded their college careers at least 10 years earlier.
A player’s post-football career as a citizen is also weighed, with the committee taking into consideration if a player has “proven himself worthy as a citizen, carrying the ideals of football forward into his relations with his community.”
Voting will take place through June 30, with the announcement of next year’s Hall of Fame class coming early in 2024.
Defensive end Corey Moore was the most recent Hokie to be selected for the Hall of Fame in January. When he’s inducted this December in Las Vegas, he’ll be the eighth person with Virginia Tech ties to be enshrined, joining Hunter Carpenter (inducted 1957), Andy Gustafson (1985), Carroll Dale (1987), Frank Loria (1999), Jerry Claiborne (1999), Bruce Smith (2006) and Frank Beamer (2018).