Michael Vick, Nick Saban, Urban Meyer Headline 2025 College Football HOF Class

Two era-defining coaches, an electrifying quarterback and an NFL legend at defensive end headline the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class that was announced Wednesday.

The College Football Hall of Fame shared the full list of inductees that includes Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Michael Vick and Michael Strahan:

There are several notable names on this list that are instantly recognizable to college football fans, such as Michael Huff, Montee Ball, Haloti Ngata and Steve Slaton.

Yet Saban and Meyer stand out as two of the greatest coaches in college football history.

Saban retired after the 2023 season as a seven-time champion who had become the face of the sport during a dominant run at Alabama. He won six titles with the Crimson Tide and another with LSU, although he started his head coaching career at Toledo in 1990.

He was also the head coach at Michigan State for five years before he took over at LSU in 2000. He led the Tigers for five seasons during a tenure that included the national championship, left to become the head coach of the Miami Dolphins and then returned to college in 2007 to take over Alabama for a legendary 17-year span that put the program on top of the sport.

Saban went 206-29 with the Crimson Tide and won six national championships.

He also battled with Meyer when the latter was at Florida during his own memorable career.

Only Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy have higher winning percentages in college football history than Meyer's .854 mark, and they coached in a different era of the sport with far fewer demands and elite programs.

It is a testament to Meyer's overall consistency that he finished with such a winning percentage across four different stops at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida and Ohio State during a career that also included three national championships and some of the sport's most memorable players in Tim Tebow and others.

Meyer is best remembered for his time at Florida where he won two national titles in six years from 2005 to 2010 and his time at Ohio State where he won a national championship in 2014, went an astounding 83-9 during seven seasons and went a perfect 7-0 against rival Michigan.

As for Vick, he fell just short of a national title during his time at Virginia Tech. He led the Hokies to the national championship game but lost to Florida State to end the 1999 season that also saw him with the Big East Offensive Player of the Year.