By MICHAEL MAROT

Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza took a brief respite from film study Wednesday to reflect on his incredible season and another historic Hoosiers run.

The former Cal Bears standout certainly deserves to take a bow — though he won’t, even on a bye week.

Mendoza knows he can’t stray from his usual routine — not with a chance for No. 2 Indiana to retain the Old Oaken Bucket and clinch the program’s first Big Ten title game appearance next weekend at Purdue in what could be a fitting regular-season finale for Mendoza. And that’s why he’s here now in college football’s Week 13 as one of the Heisman Trophy frontrunners.

“It’s going to be a tough, gritty match-up and I think it might snow over there, which would be really interesting,” Mendoza said. “I just can’t wait to

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