The 150th season of college football begins in a few weeks.

In conjunction with that, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference recently named 150 contributors throughout its league history.

That list is an eye opener.

Slippery Rock University has 12 individuals on that list of 150. Chuck Sanders and LaMonte Coleman — two Rock running backs who reached the NFL — are not among them.

The 12 representatives from SRU who did make the list are Jerry Bejbl, Bob DiSpirito, Terry Factor, D.J. Flick, Brandon Fusco, Shamar Greene, Greg Hopkins, Marcus Martin, Randy McKavish, George Mihalik, Brian Polk and N. Kerr Thompson.

Thompson, DiSpirito and Mihalik were legendary coaches who combined for numerous PSAC titles. Mihalik was quarterback of three PSAC titles under DiSpirito before winning eight PSAC West crowns as a coach.

Fusco, of course, is a Seneca Valley graduate who went on to play more than 70 games as an offensive lineman in the NFL.

Martin is college football's all-time sack leader, Hopkins had 3,382 receiving yards and became an arena football legend, Greene rushed for 4,275 yards, Polk had 17 interceptions, McKavish quarterbacked The Rock to four successive PSAC West crowns.

Flick had solid years as a receiver in the Canadian Football League.

Bejbl was an All-American who played on two PSAC West title teams at SRU and has donated more than $1 million to the school.

Plenty of history there, to be sure.

But SRU is far from alone in creating history for this conference.

Twenty of the 150 people on the PSAC's contributor list played in the NFL. Among them are Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver Andre Reed and the New York Jets' all-time leader in kick return yardage, Bruce Harper. Both played at Kutztown.

Current Steeler tackle Matt Feiler and New Orleans Saints All-Pro lineman Jahri Evans played at Bloomsburg. Former NFL linebacker and Saints coach Jim Haslett went to Indiana (Pa.).

Brent Grimes, a 12-year NFL defensive back, played at Shippensburg. So did longtime Green Bay Packer fullback John Kuhn.

Penn State coach James Franklin played at East Stroudsburg. Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich played at IUP.

You get the point.

This is a high-caliber college football league that plays games right in our backyard.

The 12 SRU individuals on the PSAC list range in time from 1920 — when Thompson started — to 2015 — when Mihalik retired.

This success has been going on for a while.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle