Former OU football player Rickey Dixon was named to the College Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2019 on Monday.
Dixon, one of the best defensive backs in University of Oklahoma history, was selected from the national ballot of 76 All-America players from the Football Bowl Subdivision, and 100 players from the divisional ranks.
A 1987 consensus All-American, Dixon, who will become OU's 22nd player and first full-time defensive back in the College Hall of Fame, was the first Sooner to win the Jim Thorpe Award, given to college football's top defensive back. He earned first-team All-Big Eight honors as a junior and senior in 1986 and '87, and finished his career with 170 total tackles, 17 interceptions and 303 interception return yards.