Fresh off his national championship, Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza broke more records on Thursday night with with Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show."

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In an essay she penned for the Players Tribune in December, titled "Dear Fernando," Fernando Mendoza's mother Elsa Mendoza shared that she became pregnant with him at age 25, after moving from Miami to Boston following graduate school.

On Monday, Indiana University star quarterback Fernando Mendoza led the Hoosiers to their first national championship in program history.

Fernando Mendoza took the snap and ran straight into traffic. He was drilled at the five, stumbled, stayed upright, and kept pushing as Miami defenders hit him again and again, dragging himself across the goal line with the ball extended and the stadium in full roar.

The Indiana Hoosiers won the national championship under the head-coaching of Curt Cignetti. But the biggest storylines of their 2025 seasonwas the Heisman award-winning quarterback, Fernando Mendoza.

MIAMI — About five miles from the University of Miami’s campus, many students at Christopher Columbus High School were unsurprisingly decked out in orange and green on Friday as the hometown Hurricanes prepared to play Indiana in Monday’s college football national championship. Some, however, opted for crimson.

Indiana loses more than one Mendoza for the 2026 season after its historic national title win. While Fernando Mendoza is likely to leave for the NFL, Alberto has reportedly accepted a transfer to Georgia Tech in the ACC.