Ex-Ohio State coach Jim Tressel joins a long list of sports figures who've moved into politics College Football Hall of Fame coach Jim Tressel, who won the 2002 national title at Ohio State University, has been nominated to be the state’s next lieutenant governor, joining a long list of sports figures who’ve moved into politics.
Ford later was elected to the U.S. House in Michigan before becoming vice president and then president, replacing Richard Nixon after his resignation.
A quarterback at the University of Tennessee where he was runner-up for the 1993 Heisman Trophy, Shuler was elected to the U.S House in North Carolina in 2006 and served three terms.
The former head football coach at Auburn University was elected by Alabama voters to his first term in the U.S. Senate in 2020.
The 1982 Heisman Trophy winner at the University of Georgia ran unsuccessfully in his home state for a U.S. Senate seat in 2002.
