Fernando Mendoza, Jeremiyah Love, Jacob Rodriguez and Caleb Downs earn first-team honors and Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia headlines the second team in the USA TODAY Sports All-America squads for the 2025 season.

Mendoza lands ahead of Pavia after tossing 33 touchdowns in leading Indiana to the Big Ten championship and the top seed in the College Football Playoff . The Hoosiers place another four players on the first and second teams, including safety Louis Moore.

Ohio State’s top-ranked defense has three players on the first team in Downs, defensive tackle Kayden McDonald and linebacker Arvell Reese.

Every playoff team but Tulane placed at least one player on the first or second teams. The team was selected with ballots from 25 voters across the USA TODAY Sports Network.

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