Two Kansas State football greats are among the 75 finalists for College Football Hall of Fame, announced on Thursday.
Quarterback Michael Bishop and kicker Martin Gramatica were teammates on some of the Wildcats’ greatest teams of the late 1990s.
Bishop was the Heisman Trophy runner-up Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback in 1998.
Gramatica was the 1997 Lou Groza Award winner as the nation’s top placekicker. A year later, he kicked a 65-yard field goal, the longest in college football without a tee.
Among other players nominated: Nebraska quarterback and 2001 Heisman winner Eric Crouch, Cornhuskers offensive linemen Aaron Taylor and Zach Wiegert and Oklahoma defensive back Rickey Dixon.