BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football fans got their Gus Johnson moment Saturday, when Fox’s famous play-by-play announcer delivered his breathless call of Fernando Mendoza’s game-winning touchdown pass to Omar Cooper Jr.

It contained all the hallmarks of a great Johnson call — the unfiltered response, dripping with emotion, attached forever to a moment in time. Even the inevitable cheap-seats criticism of Johnson’s exhortation to “give him the Heisman Trophy now,” referring to Mendoza, won’t devalue the moment for fans of a program eager to make many more of these memories.

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