Oregon's Dan Lanning fires off his complaint about College Football Playoff format

The Oregon Ducks volition instrumentality connected the Texas Tech Red Raiders successful a College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup, which volition besides enactment arsenic the Orange Bowl.

The crippled volition beryllium played connected a neutral tract contempt Texas Tech being the No. 4 effect successful the bracket. It’s a conception that Ducks caput manager Dan Lanning had a hard clip wrapping his caput around. With the Playoff format the mode it is now, lone the archetypal circular sees location games for the highest seeds. The adjacent rounds are considered vessel games, keeping immoderate of the aged ways intact.

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Oregon caput manager Dan Lanning calls to his squad during the archetypal fractional of the archetypal circular of the NCAA College Football Playoff against James Madison, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, successful Eugene, Oregon. (AP Photo/Lydia Ely)

Lanning besides took contented with the timing of the quarterfinal games. Oregon defeated James Madison, 51-34, connected Saturday but won’t look Texas Tech until New Year’s Day. Texas Tech hasn’t played since the Big 12 Championship connected Dec. 6.

"I don't cognize if there's a broadside advantage. I deliberation it's conscionable much of an indicator that the mode we bash playoffs successful assemblage shot is messed up. I mean, successful my opinion, we're truly excited to beryllium going to the Orange Bowl, but this crippled should beryllium played astatine Texas Tech. They're a higher-seeded team. We should play a week similar close aft the past game. The adjacent playoff crippled should beryllium the adjacent Saturday. The adjacent playoff crippled should beryllium the adjacent Saturday. The adjacent playoff crippled should beryllium the adjacent Saturday, past a title game."

Lanning said that portion of the situation is to support the aforesaid bushed for his players contempt determination being a deficiency of series successful Playoff games successful this portion of the year.

Oregon caput manager Dan Lanning looks astatine the scoreboard during the archetypal fractional of the archetypal circular of the NCAA College Football Playoff against James Madison, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, successful Eugene, Oregon. (AP Photo/Lydia Ely)

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"There’s decidedly a accomplishment and an creation to making definite that your team's prepared erstwhile you person agelong breaks. And I deliberation that was wide past year," helium said. "Certainly, it'll beryllium wide now. You got a small spot much clip to hole for this game, but a small spot antithetic than the past one.

"And that's the different portion that doesn't marque truly a batch of consciousness is the series of days successful betwixt each crippled and each Playoff. There's conscionable not truly a rhythm. And for america arsenic a coach, it's astir however bash you make that rhythm? How bash you situation yourself to say, ‘OK, however tin we support things the aforesaid arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable for our players?’ And it's pugnacious erstwhile you person large gaps and large breaks similar that."

Oregon volition surely person a situation connected its hands against Texas Tech.

Texas Tech Red Raiders linebacker Ben Roberts (13) and linebacker Jacob Rodriguez (10) observe an interception against the BYU Cougars during the 2nd fractional astatine AT&T Stadium connected Dec. 6, 2025. (Jerome Miron/Imagn Images)

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Joey McGuire’s squad is 12-1 with their lone nonaccomplishment being against Arizona State earlier successful the season. The Red Raiders mean astir 42.5 points per game, which is ranked 3rd successful the nation. The defence allows 10.9 points per game, which is besides ranked 3rd successful the nation.

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