CHICK-FIL-A PEACH BOWL: OREGON VS INDIANA

January 6, 2026

Isaiah World

Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Oregon Ducks

Press Conference

Q. Isaiah, I'm curious on having faced Indiana once before, what is it that makes them so difficult to -- and protections in particular to stop?

ISAIAH WORLD: That's a good question. I think we already went over before. They got a good coach over there, good program. A lot of dudes with like mindset as we have. They got a lot of stuff. They got a good style of defense, multiple different coverages they play out of.

It's just a lot of looks that we have to account for. And we just -- we need to make sure we are all on the same page as far as our communication and stuff. That's what hindered us last time.

Q. You mentioned that communication. As a leader for that O-line room, step up with that communication since that first game and really set everybody to make sure you're sliding the right way and stuff like that.

ISAIAH WORLD: Yeah. Definitely, yeah. Like you said, Dante, we definitely had a lot of things we could have improved on that last game. Like Coach Lanning said, we're a new team, and they're a new team as well.

So it was just taking the next step as far as just getting better and making sure we're all on the same page. We do our weekly protection meeting so we can make sure we all have the same thought pattern and just anything else we could do to get the edge.

Q. What did the first game kind of maybe mean to you personally, and what lessons did you learn that are maybe valuable in rematch this week?

ISAIAH WORLD: Yeah. It definitely hurt. Feeling the pain of the loss. Definitely, we were in Austin stadium. I think just knowing and recognizing that pain and what we did that wasn't good to make us lose and just going and correcting and doubling down on our process and just going back to the haystack.

Q. You touched on it a little bit, but what do they do that is that difficult? Because a whole bunch of defenses run similar pressures, but they generate more TFLs than almost anyone in the country. So everybody goes about preparing for this, and yet they still manage to have success. Do they show a variety of looks, or what is it that makes them so successful?

ISAIAH WORLD: Yeah. Like I said before, they got like -- they got a good group of guys. So that definitely makes it hard. Number 4, their linebacker, I learned that this week he has the free-for-all to go give the defense new calls and stuff.

So sometimes they're like they check to match our personnel or they match anything we do. They check when we check, and they do anything to get the most advantageous look for their defense.

So it's trying to find those little keys and stuff that they do. Like even just I know -- like I told -- I just already said it earlier, but a lot of it is just communication and making sure we're all on the same page, because with all the variety, we all have to be on the same page. I mean, it's not hard. It's just playing with effort and then just going, playing harder, longer than the whistle than they are.