Lil Uzi Vert Attends College Football Championship Game After Invite From Fernando Mendoza

Lil Uzi Vert has been dubbed “Lil Hoozi Vert” following their appearance at the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship game on Monday the Indiana Hoosiers played the Miami Hurricanes in the latter’s hometown on Monday, with the Hoosiers ultimately coming out on top with a 27-21 win. In an interview with Lucas Brody for Broadcast Boys in December, Hoosiers quarterback (and Heisman winner) Fernando Mendoza vowed to make sure Uzi was in attendance should his team ultimately make it to the championship. “Lil Uzi Vert, if we make the national championship in Miami, this is a formal invitation,” Mendoza said at the time. “I don’t have extra tickets because it’s gonna be in Miami, but I will find some way and somehow to invite you.” Play Fast forward to January, and Uzi, fresh off rolling out several new singles as part of their new chapter as a Roc Nation Distribution artist, was indeed on hand for the big game. “It’s like a dream that I didn’t have, and then I had it,” Uzi told Joe Cronin during an on-the-field interview on Monday. “Then it became true. So it was my dream before my dream even happened. Shout out Mendoza.”

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