The National Football Foundation’s release of the College Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022 ballot features an array of standouts who shaped the history of present-day Colonial Athletic Association members.

That was fun. Now, let’s promise never to do it again.

From its inaugural season in 2007 through the 2010 campaign, the Colonial Athletic Association collected two national championships and sent three different members to the National Championship Game over that stretch.

Delaware opened its spring 2021 FCS Playoffs faced with the subdivision’s leading ball-carrier, and the Fightin’ Blue Hens bent without breaking. In the quarterfinals, they’ll face another of the top rushers in the FCS and one of the most prolific overall offenses in college football.

Seven, seven, nine and zero: These were the point totals the Delaware defense allowed in its four playoff games en route to the 2003 Div. I-AA National Championship.

When describing his team’s offense, Delaware coach Danny Rocco likes to say the Blue Hens have a lot of tools in the toolbox. The most useful of those tools may be quarterback Nolan Henderson.