Three ACC Football alums are among the 22 elected to the College Football Hall of Fame for the Class of 2024, from a joint announcement of the National Football Foundation and the College Hall of Fame.
Not included among the Class of 2024 honorees: Virginia all-time great Herman Moore.
The three ACC guys elected in the class are Florida State running back Warrick Dunn, Pitt wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and North Carolina defensive end Julius Peppers.
All fine choices; none of them are Herman Moore, though.
Moore was among the 87 former FBS players and coaches on the 2024 ballot.
The Danville native was a 1991 first-round NFL Draft pick after his first-team All-America season in 1990 in which he amassed 1,190 yards and 13 TDs on 54 catches.
Those numbers earned Moore a sixth-place finish in the 1990 Heisman Trophy balloting.
The 22.0 yards that he averaged per catch over his three-year UVA career is still an NCAA record.
A 12-year NFL veteran, Moore led the league in receptions twice (1995: 123 catches; 1997: 104 catches), and he finished his pro career with 670 catches, 9,174 yards and 62 TDs.
Five former UVA players and three former coaches are in the College Football Hall of Fame – Bill Dudley (1956), Earle “Greasy” Neale (1967), Tom Scott (1979), Frank Murray (1983) Joe Palumbo (1999), George Welsh (2004), Jim Dombrowski (2008) and Anthony Poindexter (2020).
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