NEW YORK -- Lou Holtz, who lettered as a linebacker for Kent State in 1957, was among 15 former players and coaches who were elected into the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation announced on Thursday.

Holtz, who currently serves as a college football analyst for ESPN, led six schools to 249 victories over his 30-year head coaching career, highlighted by a national title at Notre Dame in 1988. He is the only coach in the history of college football to take five different teams to a bowl game.

The East Liverpool, Ohio, native will be joined in the Hall by fellow coach John Cooper, while the 13 players selected were UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman; LSU tailback and defensive back Billy Cannon; Virginia offensive tackle Jim Dombrowski; Northwestern linebacker Pat Fitzgerald; Florida linebacker Wilber Marshall; Washington State running back Rueben Mayes; Arizona State guard Randall McDaniel; Syracuse quarterback Don McPherson; Wyoming tight end Jay Novacek; Texas Tech split end Dave Parks; Florida State nose guard Ron Simmons; Oklahoma State running back Thurman Thomas; and Army quarterback Arnold Tucker.

The class will be inducted at the NFF banquet in New York in December, then enshrined in the summer of 2009 at the Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind.