Rocco Becht was adjusting his facemask after enduring one personal foul penalty when another, more violent and vicious, visited him.
Spinning out of a tackle-by-facemasking, Becht reoriented his helmet just as a hit from Cincinnati’s Simeon Coleman threatened to separate it – and the head inside – from his neck.
As Becht writhed on the field, clutching his head and wincing through what was obviously considerable pain, it was clear that the hit – flagged for targeting resulting in Coleman’s ejection – had walloped the Iowa State football quarterback.