LSU’S KEVIN FAULK SELECTED FOR 2022 CLASS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME

                                                                                    BATON ROUGE – LSU running back Kevin Faulk, perhaps the greatest all-purpose player in the history of the Southeastern Conference, has been named to the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation announced on Monday.

Faulk, who remains the SEC’s leader in career all-purpose yards and the school’s all-time leading rusher, becomes the 11th LSU player to enter the College Football Hall of Fame. He’s joined in the Hall Fame Class of 2022 by 17 players and three coaches.

“All praise goes to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” Faulk said. “This is an honor that wouldn’t be possible without my great teammates, coaches and everyone who helped me along the way. It’s a tremendous honor but for me, it was a team effort. I’m so humbled and honored to be included among the great list of players and coaches in the Hall of Fame Class for 2022.”

A 1996 first-team all-American as an all-purpose player, Faulk still holds the all-time SEC record with 6,833 all-purpose yards, a mark that was fourth in FBS history when he finished his career. During that 1996 season, he led the SEC in all-purpose yards and ranked second in the league in rushing. Faulk followed up his all-America campaign by leading the SEC in rushing during both his junior and senior seasons, and he also topped the league in scoring as a senior. The three-time first-team All-SEC selection was the first player in LSU history to average more than 100 yards per game during his entire career.

Setting 11 school records by career’s end, Faulk still holds LSU career marks for rushing yards (4,577), rushing touchdowns (46), all-purpose yards (6,833) and 100-yard rushing games (22). The 1995 SEC Freshman of the Year ranks fourth in the conference in career rushing yards and is tied for third in career rushing touchdowns. A two-time LSU MVP, Faulk led the Tigers to two top-15 final rankings and three bowl victories, earning offensive MVP honors following the 1995 Independence Bowl after setting LSU bowl records with 234 rushing yards and 271 all-purpose yards. Faulk owns LSU’s single-game all-purpose yards record (376 vs. Houston, 1996), and ranks fifth in school history with 832 punt return yards. He is also a member of the LSU Athletics and State of Louisiana Sports halls of fame.

Taken in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots, Faulk spent his entire 13-year career with the franchise. The 2016 New England Patriots Hall of Fame inductee led the team to three Super Bowl titles (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX), and he holds the franchise record for career all-purpose yards.

Following his pro career, Faulk served as an assistant football coach from 2013-17 at his former high school, Carencro High School in Lafayette, Louisiana. He then served on the coaching staff at his alma mater, LSU, from 2018-21. He annually hosts a free youth football camp in Louisiana, and he founded the Kevin Faulk Foundation to support youth. He is the cousin of 2017 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Marshall Faulk from San Diego State.

Faulk will become the 11th former LSU player enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame joining end Gaynell “Gus” Tinsley (Class of 1956), end Ken Kavanaugh Sr. (Class of 1963), halfback Abe Mickal (Class of 1967), quarterback Doc Fenton (Class of 1971), safety Tommy Casanova (Class of 1995), halfback Billy Cannon (Class of 2009), halfback Jerry Stovall (Class of 2010), running back Charles Alexander (Class of 2012), quarterback Bert Jones (Class of 2016), and defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey (Class of 2020). 

Former LSU coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame include Dana Bible (Class of 1951), Biff Jones (Class of 1954), Bernie Moore (Class of 1954) and Charles McClendon (Class of 1986). 

The 18 first-team all-America players and three standout coaches in the 2022 Class were selected from the national ballot of 78 players and seven coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision, the 99 players and 33 coaches from the divisional ranks and the NFF Veterans Committee candidates.

“We are extremely proud to announce the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Class,” said Archie Manning, NFF Chairman and a 1989 College Football Hall of Famer from Ole Miss. “Each of these men has established himself among the absolute best to have ever played or coached the game, and we look forward to immortalizing their incredible accomplishments.”

The 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Class will officially be inducted during the 64th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 6.


The Preseason NCAA Football top 25 is out.

1. Alabama 147

2. Ohio State 142

3. Florida State 137
4. USC 134
5. Penn State 120
6. Clemson 119
7. Washington 111
8. Oklahoma 110
9. Oklahoma State 95
10. Auburn 92
11. Michigan 88
12. Wisconsin 80
13. LSU 76
14. Georgia 76
15. Stanford 67
16. Louisville 65
17. Kansas State 47
18. Florida 44
19. South Florida 43
20. Miami, Fla. 36
21. West Virginia 34
22. Texas 21
23. Tennessee 16
24. Oregon 14
25. Boise State 11

 

 

47 days til kickoff, Round-up in the SEC Football

Hello football fans we have 47 days til the kickoff of College Football. I like baseball and reshirted at USF for a season in 1995-96, enjoyed the sport, but baseball is not like football, the season is right around the corner. The reports around the camp everyone is talking about Kentucky and Georgia, Georgia is favored to win the SEC East according to the media, but it seems like the SEC Media is wrong every year. Its funny in the beginning of the season even Paul Finebaum starts talking about like Kentucky, and that’s usely about that, its talk, Kemtucky hasnt proving anything probably since the last time they beat LSU 2007.I remember in 2014 Kentucky coming into Tiger Stadium on a satuday night, they were saying we are gonna win tonight, walking around the sidelines even the Kentucky fans were saying yep this is the night we beat LSU. Kentucky. The game didnt go well as Kentucky threw passes sideline to sideline, the final score was 41-3 LSU. So I don’t really put any stock in Kentucky at all, and the SEC East has one of the weakest links in the conference. Tennessee Coach Butch Jones keeps talking about building their program brick by brick, someday he is gonna run out of bricks, I think Butch Jones is on a short leash and the Vols fans are getting impatient about their present coach. Yes Muschamp is still coach at South Carolina but I don’t see them doing anything in the next 5 years.

Florida Gators and Georgia probably the only 2 good teams in the SEC East that are competitive, but the Gators  show up every year in the SEC Title Game and gets beat by Alabama like everyone else, Florida did something they are probably going to regret by scheduling a very explosive LSU team, for Homecoming, what a very bad thing to do, and I hear they are gonna give their National Champions Baseball team who beat LSU their rings that night during the game. LSU has a new offensive coordinator Matt Canada who came from Pittsburgh, averaging 39 points a game and the only team to beat the National Champions, Clemson Tigers. The results I see in this game could be decided by 3 points or a blowout by LSU, the gators thinking its an easy game. Someone once told me don’t ever make decisions base on your emotions, the University of Florida was called out during their hurricane last year, LSU offer to fly over the Florida Gators football team and everyone else, and it would be their home game, but as reports were released Florida team was very banged up and didn’t want to face LSU that week, so they danced around until thursday came around and the SEC Commissioner canceled the game because of the University of Florida was not responding and putting everyone on hold. Amazing how Maryland played their schedule game, even Miami played their scheduled game and according to the storm it pass by the coast by Florida and went off shore to the Carolina’s, it didn’t even effect Florida that much, much less the city of Gainesville which is more inland and not even close to the coast.

The team to win the SEC again this year is Alabama Crimson Tide, which are not supposed to miss a beat who might lose to Florida State an opening game and are on the road vs Auburn later on in the season. If Alabama loses 2 games it will be the first time since 2013 that they lost 2 games, and the SEC might not have a team in the NCAA Playoffs, but LSU might go 11-1 so the SEC still has a chance to be represented in the Playoffs if Alabama loses 2 games. Auburn has been talked about as well to win the SEC but it will have to win some big games on the road.  The SEC is really starting to balance out especially the West, but they do have their problems especially with Ole Miss and Hugh Freeze going thru alot of sanctions with the NCAA. A very big cloud indeed over Oxford,Ms as of right now, with all the sanctions and even former Ole Miss Coach Houston Nut was blamed for the 2-10 season before Hugh Freeze took over, Freeze tried blaming Nut for the NCAA Sanctions going on right now, so Houston Nut is suing Hugh Freeze in court for defamation. Its kinda of funny, Houston Nut is suing for a good reputation but his stunt at Arkansas really cleaned that up especially riding around on motorbikes with hot grad students and getting into accidents while being married. I guess someone needs to take the fall for Ole Miss woes right now, because for a SEC West team to beat Alabama two times in a roll, everyone knew something was cooking in Oxford, to get all those top 5 recruits into a small town like Oxford,Mississippi. So there you go folks there’s our break down for the season for right now for the SEC.

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