@thesportsontap: Grant Wilson had not started a game at Indiana. He came in at halftime today and threw the touchdown that won it. Indiana beat Minnesota 23 to 16 in overtime. Josh Hoover started and was struggling, so Curt Cignetti went to his backup for the second half, and in overtime Wilson threw a 25 yard touchdown pass to end it. That game was absurd on its own. Minnesota hit a 60 yard field goal with 24 seconds left to go ahead. Indiana answered with a 60 yard field goal of its own with 2 seconds left. Then overtime, then Wilson. Here is the part that makes him worth your time. This is Grant Wilson's seventh season of college football. Seventh. It is also his last. He started at Fordham in 2021 and 2022, then transferred to Old Dominion and started 14 games there. In the second week of 2024, against East Carolina, he dislocated his elbow and tore tendons in his triceps and his wrist. He went into the portal after that, and several schools offered him a chance to go be their starting quarterback. He turned all of them down and went to Indiana to be a backup. So he sat. And while he sat, third on the depth chart, he spent his time teaching Fernando Mendoza how to play the position. Mendoza went on to win the Heisman Trophy, and Mendoza described him as a full time quarterback fundamentals coach. Here is how Wilson talks about his own role. "I know my role." He says he embraces it every single day, and he calls the whole thing a long journey. Be straight about what today was. He did not win a starting job and he is not going to. Hoover is the quarterback at Indiana next week. Wilson came in for one half in his last season, in a game his team was losing, and he handled it. But that is the point. A man who could have spent two years starting somewhere else chose to hold a clipboard, teach a Heisman winner his footwork, and wait. Today they handed him the thing, in overtime, with everything on it. He threw a touchdown and Indiana won. #cfb #cfbnews #indiana #hoosiers #CollegeFootball

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