Heisman Trophy Odds: Fernando Mendoza vs. Diego Pavia Analysis

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00:00Coach, let's talk about hot quarterbacks.

00:02Let's turn our attention to the Heisman Trophy.

00:05That's this coming weekend with the Army-Navy game

00:09and the one-bowl matchup, Boise State and Washington.

00:13When you look at the second half by Fernando Mendoza

00:16in that victory over top-ranked Ohio State,

00:19it just really solidified the fact that potentially

00:22Fernando Mendoza would win the Heisman,

00:25but Diego Pavia still within striking distance of at least going to New York.

00:31Do you give Diego Pavia any potential chance

00:34to steal the hardware this coming weekend?

00:38Well, I've said that before.

00:39He would be my choice.

00:41I think he is most deserving being the quarterback

00:43or the football player in football that did the most

00:46to show how good he is, how much he meant to that football team.

00:51But what Mendoza has done, and we know in the last 25 years,

00:55quarterbacks have won the Heisman 20 of those 25 years,

00:58what he has done, he's led his team to the undefeated playoffs.

01:02He's also made an incredible throw against Penn State

01:05to win a game everybody saw, and then he come back head-to-head

01:09against Sayan at Ohio State and outplayed him

01:13to win the Big Ten Championship.

01:15So he has enough pluses behind his name.

01:18He'll be hard to beat as far as the Heisman,

01:20because now all the games are in the well before voting starts.

01:24I just think if there's a little bit of publicity push

01:27and people will look at how much a quarterback did for their program

01:30and for their team, I still believe Diego Pavia did the most

01:34for college football, did the most for the Commodores this season.

01:38They were 10-2 overall, had an opportunity to maybe potentially

01:44make the college football playoff, but two losses on the road

01:48to Texas by three points and top-ranked Alabama, excuse me,

01:53kept the Commodores on the outside looking in.

01:56When you talk about their head coach, Clark Lee,

01:59he had come out and said that the Commodores had every opportunity

02:02to make the college football playoff.

02:05They didn't take care of business.

02:07Thoughts about Clark Lee's comments about Vanderbilt finishing the year

02:12at 10-2, but being left out of the playoff.

02:15And quite honestly, he gave accountability to his team

02:19for not stepping up.

02:21Well, great, great comments.

02:23I think he spoke as a head coach should speak.

02:26Their team represents their program and their university saying,

02:29hey, we had every opportunity, we lost two big games, someone else deserved it more,

02:35they were going to go with what they had, they're going to go to their bowl game

02:39because they're excited just to play football and to finish as a team together.

02:44I think that's what it was about.

02:45And I think as we have seen a lot of the comments, a lot of the articles out there,

02:49the athletic director at Notre Dame who criticized openly the Atlantic Coast Conference

02:54for the statements they made, chose not to go to a bowl game,

02:58I don't think that gives us the type of leadership that we need to lead those players

03:03as that, hey, we don't take our ball and go home when it doesn't go our way.

03:07We take what happens, we say we did our best, and we'll go from there.

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