NEW YORK -- Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza , who guided the Hoosiers to their first No. 1 ranking and the top seed in the 12-team College Football bracket after throwing for 2,980 yards and a national-best 33 touchdown passes, won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night.

In final voting, Mendoza outdistanced Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia , Ohio State's Julian Sayin , and Notre Dame's Jeremiyah Love , and will now turn his focus to the CFP, in which the Hoosiers have a first-round bye. He is Indiana's first Heisman winner in school history.

Pavia set records at Vanderbilt, and Sayin kept defending national-champion Ohio State at the top, while Love, a running back, had an impressive season for Notre Dame. But none could top the Hoosiers' quarterback who played last season at Cal.

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