No. 2 Indiana beats No. 1 Ohio St. 13-10 to end Big Ten title drought, lock up top playoff seed

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza made all the big plays Saturday night.

Then his Hoosiers teammates and their fans celebrated like it was 1967.

Mendoza's neatly tucked 17-yard pass to Elijah Sarratt gave the No. 2 Hoosiers the lead they needed and the defense shut down No. 1 Ohio State the rest of the way in a 13-10 win for their first Big Ten title in nearly half a century while likely locking up the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff.

"We were never supposed to be in this position, but now we're the flipping champs," Mendoza shouted on television before he was selected the game's MVP. "We are brothers, we know how to stick together and we're the toughest glue ever."

They did it in style -- extending the best season in school history to 13-0, snapping a 30-game losing streak against the Buckeyes that stretched to 1988, ending major college football's longest winning streak at 16 and moving to the precipice of earning the first No. 1 ranking in school history.

Heck, Mendoza could become the first Heisman Trophy winner to play for the Hoosiers, too.

And they sealed it with a remarkable 33-yard pass from Mendoza to Charlie Becker on third down, a play that took the clock down to the 2-minute timeout.

"The Hoosiers are real and we are here," Becker said after hauling in six passes for 126 yards.

Ohio State fell to 12-1 overall though its quest to win back-to-back national championships for the first time will likely begin with the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye.

The Buckeyes had a chance to retake the lead on fourth-and-1 from the Indiana 5-yard line late in the third quarter. But a replay review overturned the call on the field, determining Julian Sayin came up short. They also had a chance to tie the score with 2:48 to play, but Jayden Fielding missed a 29-yard field goal wide left.

"There's going to be a lot of hard conversations over the next two weeks," Buckeyes coach Ryan Day said. "It hurts, it stings."

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