NEW YORK - Last Saturday night, Fernando Mendoza introduced himself to the football world and the NFL landscape by leading the Indiana Hoosiers to their first Big Ten championship since 1967.

Here's this prized quarterback, aspiring national champion and the sport's hottest draft prospect having arrived in the Big Apple for the Heisman Trophy festivities ready for his moment.

Mendoza certainly has the journey to stardom that will make you buy into his story: two-star recruit out of high school, overlooked to the point where his best offer was to Yale until Cal lost a prospect and came in at the 11th hour with a scholarship offer he could not refuse.

His transfer to Indiana last winter, for the most part, went under the national radar until a breakout season landed Mendoza here.

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