
There are plenty of things you can call Indiana after Saturday’s dramatic 13–10 Big Ten championship win over Ohio State: The No. 1 team in the country. The No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff. And also: the “flippin’” Big Ten champions.
That was how a deeply winded Fernando Mendoza described his Hoosiers, after a slugfest between his (currently) No. 2 squad and the (currently) No. 1 Buckeyes in an on-field interview with Fox’s Jenny Taft.