Oregon's Dan Lanning calls for college football season to end by Jan 1 every year

Oregon caput manager Dan Lanning continued to run for the assemblage shot play to extremity connected Jan. 1 each year, successful an effort to hole aggregate issues. 

Lanning noted the challenges of coordinators who instrumentality caput coaching jobs being forced to juggle responsibilities, and said helium prefers to alteration the agelong layoff betwixt games. The 39-year-old has been talking astir ending the assemblage shot play sooner since the summer. 

"Every playoff crippled should beryllium played each azygous play until you decorativeness the season," Lanning said during his property league Wednesday. "Even if it means we commencement Week 0 oregon you destruct a bye, the play ends Jan. 1, and past the portal opens, past coaches that person to determination connected to their adjacent opportunities get to determination to their adjacent opportunities."

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Oregon Ducks caput manager Dan Lanning looks connected during the 4th fourth against the James Madison Dukes astatine Autzen Stadium successful Eugene, Oregon, connected Dec. 20, 2025. (Craig Strobeck/Imagn Images)

Lanning reiterated passim his property league that helium thought playing successful the archetypal circular allowed his squad to enactment successful rhythm. Last season, Oregon was the No. 1 effect and mislaid successful their archetypal College Football Playoff crippled to Ohio State.

The NFL plays games connected Saturdays passim the period of December, which Lanning disagrees with. He would alternatively spot Saturdays stay exclusive to assemblage shot truthful they could quicken the gait of the College Football Playoff to decorativeness their play by Jan 1. 

"I've got a ton of respect for the NFL, but we're a prep league for the NFL," Lanning said. "We bash a batch of favors for the NFL. We're the insignificant league successful a batch of ways, but there's nary wealth paid from the NFL to instrumentality attraction of assemblage football.

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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)

"We've fixed up immoderate of our days to the NFL. We said, 'Oh, you guys get to person this day, you get to person this day, you get to person this day.' Saturday should beryllium ineffable for assemblage football, and each Saturday done the period of December should beryllium to assemblage football."

Oregon’s violative and antiaircraft coordinators are some trying to navigate their dual responsibilities. Offensive coordinator Will Stein took the Kentucky job, portion antiaircraft coordinator Tosh Lupoi took the California job. 

If Oregon advances beyond the quarterfinasl, some coaches volition beryllium dealing with navigating the transportation portal, which opens connected Jan. 2, portion besides trying to manager the Ducks to a nationalist championship. 

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"Our nationalist title crippled this twelvemonth is Jan. 19, and that's truly hard to envision arsenic a manager that's going retired and trying to articulation a caller programme and commencement a staff," Lanning said. 

"It's hard for players to recognize what continuity looks similar and wherever they're going to beryllium astatine and to negociate that with visits, the portal, everything other that exists. The wide mode to bash that is to bump the play up and marque definite these playoff games hap a batch faster."

Oregon volition instrumentality connected Texas Tech successful the Orange Bowl connected Jan. 1 astatine noon ET. 

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