Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia slammed Heisman Trophy voters on Instagram after finishing second to Indiana's Fernando Mendoza in the voting process.

Quarterbacks have won the Heisman four of the last five years, with two-way player Travis Hunter of Colorado ending the run last season.

Fernando Mendoza has won the 2025 Heisman Trophy. The Indiana quarterback beat out fellow finalists Diego Pavia, Julian Sayin and Jeremiyah Love for the award.

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Mendoza, the mercurial quarterback of No. 1 Indiana, became the first Hoosier to win college football’s most prestigious award since its inception in 1935.

Fernando Mendoza was destined to make tears tumble down cheeks. After he posed behind the most prestigious individual award in college football and grabbed hold of the Heisman Trophy with each hand and flashed his wide grin,

There was an expectation early this year that both the Heisman class and the 2026 NFL draft class of quarterbacks were going to be loaded, with the likes of Arch Manning, Cade Klubnik, and LaNorris Sellers projected to be at the top of the sport.

The fifth through 10th spots in the 2025 Heisman Trophy voting were released on Thursday after the four finalists were revealed earlier in the week. Oregon Duc