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.