{"id":506398,"date":"2026-01-10T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506398\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:13:15","slug":"indiana-opens-peach-bowl-with-pick-6-of-oregons-dante-moore-en-route-to-blowout-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506398\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana opens Peach Bowl with pick-6 of Oregon’s Dante Moore en route to blowout win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Peach Bowl did not start well at all for Oregon.<\/p>\n

After the Ducks received the opening kickoff of the College Football Playoff<\/a> semifinal, Indiana defensive back D’Angelo Ponds picked off Oregon QB Dante Moore on the first play from scrimmage and returned the ball for a 25-yard pick-6 to open the game.<\/p>\n

It was one of three turnovers for Moore on the day as he also lost two fumbles later in the game. That all helped Indiana run away with a 56-22 victory<\/a> to advance to the national title game.<\/p>\n

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Indiana entered the game as a 3-point favorite thanks to its undefeated season and Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza. And also because of a defense that forces a lot of turnovers. Ponds\u2019 pick was the 18th of the season over 15 games for the Hoosiers. Indiana has now forced 29 turnovers all season \u2014 that\u2019s just under two per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Peach Bowl did not start well at all for Oregon. After the Ducks received the opening kickoff…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":506399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1361,226767,113452,2778,1318,2862,1317,1315,1316,226766,212,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-506398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football-playoff","9":"tag-d39angelo-ponds","10":"tag-dante-moore","11":"tag-fernando-mendoza","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-indiana","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-ncaafootball","17":"tag-opening-kickoff","18":"tag-oregon","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115871455892191083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}