Hokie ClubIRVING, Texas – The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Football Hall of Fame announced Monday that Virginia Tech legend Corey Moore is one of 22 new inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame. The class of 2023 includes 18 first-team All-America players and four coaches.
One of the most intimidating defensive linemen in college football in the 1990s, Moore left Virginia Tech as the most decorated player ever to put on a Hokie uniform. In 1999, the year he helped lead the Hokies to the BCS National Championship game, Moore won the Bronko Nagurski Award as college football's defensive player of the year, the Lombardi Award as college football's lineman of the year, the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year award and was a unanimous first-team All-American.
Moore also earned All-America honors in 1998 when he led the BIG EAST with 13.5 sacks. He gained first-team All-America recognition from the Football Coaches Association, was a second-team pick by the AP and The Sporting News and a third-team choice of Football News. In three seasons, Moore amassed 166 total tackles, 35 sacks, totaling a loss of 292 yards, 58 tackles for loss, six forced fumbles and three blocked kicks. His No. 56 jersey was retired by Virginia Tech on Oct. 23, 2010.
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Moore is the eighth inductee affiliated with Virginia Tech football to be enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame, including Hunter Carpenter (inducted 1957), Andy Gustafson (inducted 1985), Carroll Dale (inducted 1987), Frank Loria (inducted 1999), Jerry Claiborne (inducted 1999), Bruce Smith (inducted 2006) and Frank Beamer (inducted 2018).
The 2023 College Football Hall of Fame Class will be officially inducted during the 65th NFF Annual Awards Dinner, presented by Las Vegas, on Dec. 5, 2023 at the ARIA Resort and Casino Las Vegas. The inductees will also be recognized at their respective collegiate institutions with NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salutes, presented by Fidelity Investments, during the fall. Their accomplishments will be forever immortalized at the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, and each inductee will receive a custom ring created by Jostens, the official and exclusive supplier of NFF rings.