{"id":128115,"date":"2026-01-18T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128115\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:51:10","slug":"ums-carson-beck-tasked-with-deciphering-indianas-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128115\/","title":{"rendered":"UM’s Carson Beck tasked with deciphering Indiana’s defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI BEACH \u2014 On the first play of the Peach Bowl,<\/a> Oregon quarterback Dante Moore dropped back to pass. He stared down one side of the field and tried to deliver a short pass to his receiver.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo Ponds was there. The star Indiana cornerback hauled in the interception and returned it for a touchdown. The Ducks were immediately down 7-0 and never got on the right foot, falling to the Hoosiers 56-22.<\/p>\n

Miami Hurricanes quarterback Carson Beck\u2019s task is to avoid falling victim to Indiana\u2019s stellar pass defense in Monday\u2019s national title game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, they do a lot of really different things on defense from their fronts to different pressures to coverages,\u201d Beck said. \u201cThey try to keep you guessing as an offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under defensive coordinator Bryant Haines<\/a>, the Hoosiers are second in the nation in points allowed per game (11.1) and 23rd nationally in passing yards allowed per game (185.9). They are tied for seventh in the nation with 18 interceptions.<\/p>\n

In addition to having talented defenders, the Hoosiers induce mistakes by forcing quarterbacks to make quick reads after taking the snap. Beck said he can try to pick up on Indiana\u2019s tendencies by watching film of their first 15 games, but it all comes down to what he sees.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s all going to come down to kind of read and react once I do get on the field,\u201d Beck said. \u201cAnd I feel like that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been able to do well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson said the Hoosiers usually stick to zone coverages, but they mix up their coverage schemes to avoid falling into a predictable rhythm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way they mix up zone coverages is really elite,\u201d Dawson said. \u201cThey don\u2019t really get into a rhythm \u2026 I would say it\u2019s almost like they have these things they do \u2014 how much ever it is; let\u2019s say it\u2019s like eight \u2014 and they just kind of pick them out of a hat. They\u2019ll call a similar coverage on 1st-and-10 as they do on 3rd-and-4. So it\u2019s hard to get in a rhythm against them because they\u2019re mixing stuff up on the back end a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dawson said he thinks Beck is well-equipped to handle Indiana\u2019s post-snap deception because Beck typically makes his decisions based on post-snap progressions anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say the good thing is our pass game is not dictated on pre-snap looks, if that makes sense,\u201d Dawson said. \u201cWe\u2019re a progression-based offense, and our quarterback, we put a lot on him as far as seeing space and going through his progression and getting it to the open guy. So I feel like we\u2019re equipped. But ultimately, there hasn\u2019t been a lot of people having a lot of success versus them and so we\u2019ll see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI BEACH \u2014 On the first play of the Peach Bowl, Oregon quarterback Dante Moore dropped back to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,262,768,9642,49207],"class_list":["post-128115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-national-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}