Rock icon John Mellencamp appeared on FOX's Big Noon Kickoff in Bloomington on Saturday before Indiana football faced off with Nebraska for homecoming weekend. Mellencamp, who lives in Bloomington, was honored on Friday when Indiana University unveiled a sculpture of the rocker at its flagship campus.

During Friday's event, IU unveiled a new statue of Mellencamp, created by an alumnus. "Anyone who encounters it will have the opportunity to experience this at least partially, the degree of which John's spirit imbues this university, this town, and the entire state," Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis told the crowd.