First-team All-Americans Aqib Talib and Anthony Collins will go up on the KU Ring of Honor and they and former head coach Mark Mangino will be inducted as individuals into the University of Kansas athletic Hall of Fame, the school announced this morning. The entire 2007 team that won the Orange Bowl will go into the Hall as well and the team is being honored during the Sept. 2 season-opener vs. Southeast Missouri State.
Kansas went 12-1 and defeated Virginia Tech, 24-21, in the Orange Bowl.
Collins and Talib join Nolan Cromwell, Bobby Douglass, Ray Evans, John Hadl, David Jaynes, Bruce Kallmeyer, Curtis McClinton, Mike McCormack, George Mrkonic, Willie Pless, Gil Reich, John Riggins, Gale Sayers, Otto Schnellbacher, Oliver Spencer and John Zook on the Ring of Honor.