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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/gotintocollegeyolo on 2026-02-01 02:13:15+00:00.
If you just look at Diego Pavia without the personality and antics:
- Zero D1 offers, only two D2 offers out of high school
- Played at a community college and transferred to New Mexico State, which is a historically bad program that is 5th worst all-time in win percentage
- Led them to their first double-digit win season since 1960
- Transferred to Vanderbilt, another historically bad program that is bottom 30 all-time in win percentage, 7th worst all-time for Power 5, and worst all-time in the SEC
- Leads them to their first winning season in a decade, then their first double-digit win season in history.
- Plays some genuinely good and exciting football with a fun to watch playstyle. Heisman runner-up
- Is 5’9, scrappy, and would be the shortest QB to ever play in the NFL
He would have been the biggest slam-dunk, easy-to-root-for underdog ever if he wasn’t such an ass. You literally could not write a better underdog story if you tried. And nobody hated Vanderbilt as a program either, they would’ve been as universally well-liked as Indiana if Pavia had even been half the man that Fernando is. Absolutely generational fumble tbh.