In the opening week of college football, a young quarterback named Josh Hoover stepped into one of the sport's most demanding inheritances — replacing a Heisman winner at a national championship program — and was met almost immediately with pain. Bloodied by a brutal facemask penalty in his very first game for Indiana, Hoover chose to remain on the field and delivered two touchdown passes before halftime. It is a small but telling moment in the long human story of what it means to be tested early, and to answer.
Indiana QB Hoover throws TD despite gruesome facemask injury in debut
Josh Hoover sustained a facial injury from a facemask penalty that caused bleeding but remained in the game.