“We’ve got a lot of new guys. We've got a lot of good guys. A lot of the right stuff on this team." IU's first five games felt like a season unto themselves. The Hoosiers emerged from that start a Playoff contender once again. It's Monday Morning: www.indystar.com/story/sports... #iufb

Indiana needed to win a game like this. It probably needed to win it the way it won it. Now, we know Indiana is ready for what comes next. Insider from Iowa City: www.indystar.com/story/sports... #iufb

Everything from here is earned or lost. Now, we know Indiana is ready for that. "Shit. Never daunted." Insider: www.indystar.com/story/sports... #iufb

Elijah Sarratt on the winner: "He (Mendoza) stood in there, got hit and made a perfect throw." #iufb

Mendoza on the hit at the end of the third quarter: "I'm always going to take that shot." #iufb

Fernando Mendoza: "I know I shouldn't be saying this, but I probably cooked people's spreads, and I apologize for that, but my job is to win the game." #iufb

Coogan on Mendoza: "He's a tough SOB. The kid just shows up. ... He's someone that like, as an offensive lineman, you're like, that's my guy, because he'll do whatever it takes to win." #iufb

More from Coogan: "This won't be the peak of our season. 100 percent it won't be." #iufb

What does a game like this show college football about IU's culture? Pat Coogan: "It shows ... shit, never daunted." #iufb

Mind Your Banners Postgame link for your bookmarking pleasure. We're on after postgame is done: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0yc... #iufb

Cignetti: "Lemme tell ya, we left a lot of plays out there in the pass game. There's some bad stuff on that tape." #iufb

Cignetti says the non-roughing call on the Mendoza scramble "really kinda pulled our guys together right there." #iufb

Likes, dislikes from Indiana football's late win at Iowa: Undefeated after avoiding upset scare www.indystar.com/story/sports... #iufb

Cignetti talking about last sequence. Says he needs a clarification from the Big Ten, as officials kept blowing the play dead. Two different members of the crew gave Cignetti two different interpretations of why they kept blowing it dead despite Mendoza never going down. #iufb

Cignetti: "When we needed the play to be made, Fernando made the throw, and Sarratt made the catch." #iufb

Cignetti on close game, "gut-check" feel: "We haven't had many of those here, and we didn't have many of those at JMU either. I thought our coaches did a great job, and our players, when it was game on the line." #iufb

Cignetti clarifies the short-yardage plays were called from sideline. IU wasn't calling audibles at the line today because of crowd noise. #iufb

Cignetti: "I give our players and our coaches a ton of credit. We made the play when we needed to. It was a back and forth game. It was a gut-check game." #iufb

Obviously not a vintage day for IU's offense. But the Hoosiers still had more rushes of 10-plus yards (6) than Iowa had allowed through its first four games (4). #iufb

FINAL: No. 12 IU defeats Iowa 20-15. Hoosiers are 5-0, 2-0 in Big Ten play. Bye next week, then a big one at Oregon. #iufb

Safety. IU wins. What a scene. #iufb

Fernando Mendoza never takes a knee on third down but I guess they're ruling he gave himself up. IU needs to take a fourth-down snap with three seconds left. #iufb

Brown's last chance goes high. Indiana will get the ball back. Iowa still has three timeouts but there are only 16 seconds left. #iufb

PAT good. No. 12 Indiana leads Iowa 20-13. 1:28 left second half. #iufb

Touchdown Indiana. Iowa goes zero coverage and Elijah Sarratt grabs a slant and slips a tackle for a 49-yard touchdown. #iufb

Iowa just got away with hands to the face on that Mendoza pass. #iufb

Two-minute warning second half. No. 12 IU and Iowa tied at 13-apiece. #iufb

Stevens 42-yard field goal NO GOOD. IU ball at its own 24, 2:01 left 4Q. #iufb

IU holds and will get one more drive. #iufb

That's Mendoza's first interception of the season. #iufb

Big mistake from Mendoza, who under pressure overthrows Omar Cooper and is intercepted. Iowa returns the ball all the way to the Indiana 29. Only 2:50 left in the fourth quarter. #iufb

Big, big play from Mendoza to Sarratt. Mendoza had the patience to let Sarratt's route develop and then Sarratt hit Iowa with YAC for a 25-yard gain into plus territory. #iufb

Feels like a very big moment for Fernando Mendoza to try and meet here. #iufb

Indiana interception. Brown hit as he threw and Louis Moore -- who someone in the press corps dubbed "The Plaintiff" in the first half -- grabs a deflection off the intended receiver's hand. #iufb

Hank Brown taking over at QB for Iowa. #iufb

Gronowski throwing before Iowa's next drive. Even through the sock a heavy tape job appears visible on that ankle. #iufb

44-yard Radicic field goal GOOD. No. 12 Indiana and Iowa tied once again, this time at 13-apiece, 9:47 left 4Q. #iufb

Hank Brown, Iowa's backup, warming up in earnest. Not a good sign for Gronowski. #iufb

54-yard field goal GOOD. Iowa 13, No. 12 Indiana 10. 12:43 left 4Q. #iufb

Gronowski limps off after falling late, looks like maybe his ankle. #iufb

IU goes for it on 4th and 1 and doesn't get it. That felt in a lot of ways like a pivot point in this game. If Indiana was going to take control, it was going to happen there. First down Iowa on the IU 47. #iufb

Anyway, that was the end of the third quarter. No. 12 Indiana and Iowa remain tied at 10-apiece. #iufb

They wind up calling an offside penalty, then confuse everyone by saying it's accepted. But it's declined, and it's 4th-and-1. Cignetti has spent the last several minutes in heated discussion with the head official, presumably discussing the hit on Mendoza. #iufb

Officials are still sorting through all this. Meanwhile, Pat Coogan gathers the entire Indiana sideline for an impassioned speech to his teammates. #iufb

Scuffle on the IU sideline after an Iowa defender hits Mendoza out of bounds. Cignetti is hot about it. Not sure if Mendoza is OK. #iufb

Bad exchange between Mendoza and Hemby leads to a fumble IU recovers. Sets up 3rd and a lot, and Hemby runs off holding his hand like it's hurt. Curt Cignetti calls timeout to talk through what to do here. #iufb

IU with back-to-back penalties backing up what's likely to be its last drive of the fourth quarter. Kinnick knows the assignment today. #iufb

IU does not have a scoring drive of more than 47 yards today. IU's average starting field position: the minus 31. The field position hasn't been terrible. The complete lack of offensive explosion has locked this offense up. #iufb

IU entered today with 15 team sacks and a Big Ten-best 43 tackles for loss. Just one sack and four TFLs so far today. Pressure has not gotten home, and Gronowski has delivered some excellent throws on third down. Hawkeyes just converted another third down. #iufb

Iowa OL Beau Stephens limps off injured. He's replaced by Brownsburg's Leighton Jones. #iufb