What NCAA's top returning passer says about joining nation's top team

BLOOMINGTON, IN – Just as Josh Hoover needed little introduction to the football program he joined out of the transfer portal, the former TCU quarterback said he feels no pressure walking in the footsteps of outgoing Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza. Hoover — who initially committed to Indiana out of Texas high school football before flipping to the Horned Frogs — ranks among Curt Cignetti’s highest-profile additions in this year’s portal class. His 9,629 career yards passing rank Hoover first in the nation among returning players in that category, positioning the Big 12-turned-Big Ten QB to help Indiana transition seamlessly from one transfer quarterback to another. “Obviously,...