Special to The Providence Journal

Thinking out loud ... while wondering why we have so many clowns, and so few circuses.

When the four Heisman Trophy finalists were announced this week — what does it say when the leading candidates are guys you’ve either barely heard of or never heard of? And I love college football.

Julian Sayin at Ohio State, Diego Pavia at Vanderbilt, Jeremiah Love at Notre Dame and Fernando Mendoza at Indiana — and Mendoza is the hot name to know, thanks to his emotional postgame interview after the Hoosiers defeated Ohio State for the Big Ten title. Mendoza was on no one's preseason Heisman favorites lists and he’s a great story.

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