WATCH: Pat McAfee, Bill Stewart, Other Football Legends Inducted Into WVU Hall Of Fame

Ahead of WVU football's matchup with the Utah Utes at Milan Puskar Stadium on Saturday, the Mountaineers inducted six athletes into the WVU Hall of Fame, including four recognizable faces from the West Virginia football program.

The class was headlined by former head coach Bill Stewart, who passed away in 2012 not long after stepping away from the program. Stewart led the Mountaineers to one of the greatest bowl wins in program history when he became interim coach after current head coach Rich Rodriguez departed the program after his first stint. That year, WVU defeated Oklahoma 48-28 in the Fiesta Bowl. Stewart went 28-12 as a head coach and won a Big East Championship and coached 30 All-Big East honorees. Before his time as head coach, he served as an asistant during Rodriguez's wildly sucessful first stint with the program. Stewart's son, former WVU and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant Blaine Stewart and Bill's wife Karen Stewart accepted on his behalf.

The other big name in the class for the football program is former kicker Pat McAfee. McAfee was an All-American during his time playing for WVU, and was a Ray Guy Award finalist and a Lou Groza Award semifinalist for the Mountaineers. He holds the all-time program records for most games played (51), points scored (384), and extra points made (210). He went on to become a two-time Pro Bowl and one-time All-Pro selection in the NFL for the Indianapolis Colts, and now serves as the host of The Pat McAfee Show, a College GameDay analyst, and WWE color commentator. McAfee accepted via satellite from the GameDay set at Penn State, where he led Nittany Lions fans in a rendition of "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

Also getting inducted were long-time WVU assistant Bill Kirelawich and former WVU football and baseball dual-sport athlete Darrell Whitmore. Kirelawich coached at WVU under five different head coaches – Frank Cignetti, Don Nehlen, Rich Rodriguez, Bill Stewart, and Dana Holgorsen. Kirelawich was with the program through multiple of it's most successful stints in history, including a national championship appearance, multiple BCS bowl wins and 23 bowl game appearances. He is the only former assistant to not play for the Mountaineers and still be inducted into the Hall of Fame, spending his collegiate career with Salem College (WV).

Whitmore finished his WVU career as a four-year member of the WVU football team, and he posted 216 tackles and 13 interceptions as a Mountaineer. He also spent two ars with the WVU baseball team and owns a pair of school records with a .678 career slugging percentage and .481 career on-base percentage. He would go on to spend three years in the major leagues with the Florida Marlins and six more at the minor league level.