Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza added another highlight to the Hoosiers’ special 2025 season when he became the program’s first Heisman Trophy winner tonight in New York.

Mendoza, a three-star prospect out of Miami, Fla., in the 2022 recruiting class who transferred from Cal to Indiana after the 2024 season, beat out his fellow finalists — Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin — for the prestigious honor.

With Mendoza at the helm, the Hoosiers followed up a 12-0 regular season with a 13-10 win over Ohio State last week in the Big Ten Championship game to win the program’s first Big Ten title since sharing it in 1967 and earn the No. 1 overall seed heading into the College Football Playoff.

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