College football star to enter transfer portal, skip team's bowl game

TCU Horned Frogs backmost Josh Hoover announced connected Thursday helium volition participate the transportation portal and volition skip the team’s Alamo Bowl crippled against the USC Trojans.

Hoover made the announcement successful a connection connected his Instagram.

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TCU Horned Frogs backmost Josh Hoover (10) points against the Arizona State Sun Devils successful the archetypal fractional astatine Mountain America Stadium, Home of the ASU Sun Devils connected Sept. 26, 2025. (Jacob Reiner/Imagn Images)

"First, I privation to convey God for the opportunities that helium has blessed maine with to play this game," the connection read. "I’m truthful thankful to person had the accidental to correspond TCU for an unthinkable 4 years. It has been a imagination to beryllium capable to play and postgraduate from this assemblage and I volition everlastingly beryllium grateful for that.

"I privation to convey Coach (Sonny) Dykes for giving maine the accidental to play astatine TCU. I privation to convey Coach Briles and the remainder of the coaching unit for pushing maine to beryllium my champion connected and disconnected the field.

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TCU Horned Frogs backmost Josh Hoover (10) sets the play during the crippled betwixt the Horned Frogs and the Bearcats astatine Amon G. Carter Stadium connected Nov. 29, 2025. (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images)

"Lastly, I privation to convey my teammates for each of the memories that we’ve shared together. This spot has allowed maine to conscionable immoderate of my champion friends, and I volition ever beryllium grateful for that. I’ve prayed astir this and decided that I volition beryllium entering the transportation portal…"

Hoover has been the team’s starting backmost since the 2023 season. He’s played successful 36 games for the Horned Frogs and racked up 9,629 yards and 71 touchdown passes.

This season, Hoover had 3,472 passing yards and 29 touchdown passes arsenic TCU finished the regular play 8-4.

TCU Horned Frogs backmost Josh Hoover (10) talks with subordinate caput manager Kendal Briles during the archetypal fractional of a crippled against the Baylor Bears astatine Amon G. Carter Stadium connected Oct. 18, 2025. (Raymond Carlin III/Imagn Images)

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He is expected to gully large involvement erstwhile the transportation portal opens successful January.

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