Skybridge linking Jones AT&T Stadium, Texas Tech football facilities
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Three former Texas Tech football coaches and two former Red Raiders players are on the annual College Football Hall of Fame ballot released Monday by the College Football Foundation.
Coaches Pete Cawthon, Jim Carlen and Tommy Tuberville are up for consideration, as are running back Byron Hanspard and quarterback Randy Page. All five have been on the ballot for multiple years.
Hanspard, Cawthon, Carlen and Tuberville are among 79 players and nine coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision. Page is among the 100 players and 35 coaches from the divisional ranks. Page led Texas Tech in kickoff-return and punt-return yardage in 1978 and redshirted in 1979 before transferring. He led Central Oklahoma to an NAIA national championship in 1982 and was a first-team all-American in 1983.
Cawthon coached Tech from 1930-40, going 76-32-6. His .693 winning percentage is the highest in the program’s history. His teams had three one-loss seasons and two two-loss seasons.
Carlen coached Tech from 1970-74, going 37-20-2 and being named Southwest Conference coach of the year three times. The highlight was an 11-1 season in 1973 with a Gator Bowl victory over Tennessee. Carlen also coached West Virginia (1966-69) and South Carolina (1975-81) and had a career record of 107-69-6.
Tuberville coached Tech from 2010-12, going 20-17. He also coached Mississippi (1995-98), Auburn (1999-2008) and Cincinnati (2013-16) and has a career record of 159-99. His 2004 Auburn team went 13-0, and Tuberville was named national coach of the year.
Hanspard was a unanimous all-America selection and the Doak Walker Award winner in 1996. He holds the Tech single-season rushing-yardage record with 2,084 yards in 1996. Tahj Brooks last year broke Hanspard’s Tech career rushing record, reaching 4,557 yards, though Hanspard’s record of 4,219 yards does not include his stats from bowl games that would put him at 4,579. The NCAA did not include stats from bowl games until 2002.
The 2026 class will be announced early next year and inducted during the National Football Foundation’s annual awards dinner scheduled for Dec. 8, 2026, at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
According to the National Football Foundation, 5.78 million people have played college football since the first game in 1869 and 1,111 players have made the College Football Hall of Fame. Among coaches, 237 have made it.
Former Tech quarterback Graham Harrell was selected for the 2025 class that will be inducted in December.
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