Heisman Race Tightens: Can Diego Pavia Surpass Mendoza?

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00:00Coach Heisman is still up for discussion.

00:03Can Diego Pavia potentially steal the Heisman

00:07after the performance by Fernando Mendoza?

00:10Mendoza didn't like the world on fire,

00:12but did knock off the top team in the nation, Ohio State.

00:16He's back to minus 2,500.

00:19Diego Pavia is still there at 12-1.

00:22Does he have any shot to steal the hardware?

00:25Boy, it doesn't look like it.

00:27I mean, Fernando Mendoza, you know,

00:29he made a big third down, 33-yard touchdown pass

00:32to win the game with about two and a half minutes left

00:34for Indiana, probably enough to push him over the top.

00:38But I promise you, if fans and if voters

00:41would watch the highlight of Diego Pavia,

00:44watch how he carried that team and that program

00:47on his shoulders, I think he's clearly

00:50the most deserving of the Heisman Trophy.

00:52Not sure they're going to give it to him,

00:54because like you said, Ohio State, Indiana,

00:57who won that game, likely was going to push

01:00that quarterback in towards Heisman Trophy consideration.

01:04Now, I don't know if you saw Vanderbilt's head coach,

01:08Clark Lee, but they asked him about why Vanderbilt,

01:12you know, missed out, and was he bitter

01:15in any capacity being a 10-2 football team?

01:19And basically, he had come out and said that

01:21they had every opportunity to knock off Texas on the road.

01:25They lost that game by three in Alabama,

01:27a game where they were covering for much of the way

01:30and then allowed it to slip, lost that game by 11

01:33in the final 20 seconds of that matchup

01:36against the Crimson Tide.

01:37Thoughts about what Clark Lee said about his team

01:40had every opportunity.

01:41They just didn't make enough plays to pick up the wins.

01:45I think everything that Notre Dame said the wrong way,

01:48he said the right way.

01:49He said, you know what, we just want to play football.

01:51We're proud and honored that we were able to have

01:54the season that we did.

01:56We've got a chance to play another football game,

01:58and our guys just want to work together

01:59and play another football game.

02:00Didn't blame anybody, said, let's go play football.

02:04That's the way you probably should do it.

02:06If we're going to set an example for those players

02:07and how to respond to things,

02:10when things don't go your way, that's how you respond.

02:13We've got a chance to play football.

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