Indiana football entered Saturday with a 1-72 record against top 5-ranked teams. Plus, Oregon had won 18 straight home games. So it was going to take a true believer to pick the Hoosiers to beat No. 2 Oregon in Autzen Stadium.
Enter Pat McAfee. OK, so the former Indianapolis Colts punter lives in Indy and his wife is a Hoosier, but the ESPN personality was on an island this morning picking IU to beat Oregon on the "College GameDay" set.
That faith didn't go unnoticed by the seventh-ranked Hoosiers (6-0, 3-0). Quarterback Fernando Mendoza made sure to give McAfee some love following Indiana's 30-20 win over the Ducks (5-1, 2-1).
"I want to give a quick shoutout to my guy Pat McAfee for shouting us out because he's friends with my guy Steve Levy, and Boston Connor. Let's go. Go Hoosi