{"id":323923,"date":"2026-06-05T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323923\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:54:30","slug":"longhorns-daily-news-texas-alums-colt-mccoy-casey-hampton-land-on-2027-college-football-hall-of-fame-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323923\/","title":{"rendered":"Longhorns Daily News: Texas alums Colt McCoy, Casey Hampton land on 2027 College Football Hall of Fame ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame announced earlier this week that former Texas quarterback Colt McCoy and former defensive tackle Casey Hampton made the ballot for this year\u2019s College Football Hall of Fame induction. According to Texas Athletics<\/a>, \u201cThe 2027 ballot includes 80 players and nine coaches from the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and 99 players and 39 coaches from the NCAA divisional and NAIA ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re on the verge of back-to-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame announced earlier this week that former Texas quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,11297,134,133,103055,50559,27,4100],"class_list":["post-323923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-american-statesman","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college-football-hall-of-fame","tag-colt-mccoy","tag-texas","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}