IU football quarterback Fernando Mendoza bounds up the stairs in New York City, as happy as you can imagine. He’s smiling wide and every eye in the place is on him – everyone knows exactly who he is – but this is what he says:

“How you guys doing? I’m Fernando Mendoza.”

Hey, you’re right: You watched the 2025 Heisman Trophy presentation show Saturday night on ESPN, and that’s not exactly what happened there.

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