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Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza has won the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback, the second of what could be three major honors in as many days with the redshirt junior also heavily favored to win the Heisman Trophy.

Mendoza was the first winner announced during ESPN’s college awards show Friday night. The Heisman winner will be named Saturday night in New York, and Mendoza is an overwhelming favorite to take the trophy, according to BetMGM.

“It’s a wonderful feeling. I really doesn’t feel real,” Mendoza said from New York. “It’s a testament to so many people who believed in me, who have helped groom me into the player I am today and all those people, especially before anybody knew my name.”

The O’Brien honor came a day after Mendo

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