{"id":108045,"date":"2026-01-02T01:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108045\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:34:15","slug":"dan-lanning-says-oregon-texas-tech-should-have-been-in-lubbock-after-ducks-orange-bowl-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108045\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Lanning says Oregon-Texas Tech should have been in Lubbock after Ducks\u2019 Orange Bowl win"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Oregon coach Dan Lanning was happy the Ducks got to face Texas Tech in South Florida instead of West Texas, even if it seemed a lot of Oregon fans decided to pass on what could be the first of three cross-country College Football Playoff games for their team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Orange Bowl, first off, was unbelievable and I really need to give kudos to the Orange Bowl because it was a great experience,\u201d Lanning said. \u201cBut it\u2019s not the same experience anymore when you talk about playoffs. Our guys didn\u2019t leave the hotel. They have the mindset we can celebrate when this thing is all over with, and they were really focused.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fifth-seeded Ducks (13-1) beat the fourth-seeded Red Raiders (12-2) 23-0 on Thursday<\/a> in front of what was announced as a near-capacity crowd at Hard Rock Stadium but was obviously well short.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hospitality was unbelievable,\u201d Lanning said. \u201cBut we\u2019re trying to serve two different purposes here. This is a playoff, and in my opinion, should\u2019ve been played in Lubbock, Texas. I said that before. That\u2019s not because we wanted to play in Lubbock. I\u2019m certainly glad we didn\u2019t. I\u2019m glad we played in Miami. It was good prep for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oregon was the No. 1 seed in last year\u2019s 12-team CFP and lost in the quarterfinals at the Rose Bowl to Ohio State, which went on to win the national title.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, very similar situation for us and I felt it should\u2019ve been played in Eugene,\u201d Lanning said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people who do playoffs. Feel like the playoffs have looked a certain way for a long time. We\u2019re trying to serve two purposes here, and the amount of time in between games. Obviously, it\u2019s tough for teams. You know, we experienced it last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the Orange Bowl, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said playing more on-campus CFP games is an option worth examining, but whether it can be executed remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

While the game had an announced attendance of 65,021, a few hundred short of Hard Rock Stadium\u2019s official capacity (65,326), there were plenty of empty seats visible for the early New Year\u2019s Day kickoff.<\/p>\n

The first round of the CFP features four games on campus before the quarterfinals and semifinals are played in the traditional New Year\u2019s Six bowls.<\/p>\n

The CFP management committee, which is made up of the 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame\u2019s athletic director, is considering options to expand the Playoff to as many as 16 teams<\/a>, starting next year.<\/p>\n

Adding more home games to the format doesn\u2019t seem to be a short-term priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, we\u2019ve got to examine that, too,\u201d Yormark said. \u201cYou know, operationally, can they do that? The first-round games have been fantastic in every respect, and I think it\u2019s a differentiator for us. When you think about the NFL, the pageantry just being on campus, I think, is a difference maker for us. But again, the commissioners are going to have to think through: Can we do that beyond the first round?\u201d<\/p>\n

The quarterfinal travel for fans of the Ducks and Red Raiders was especially difficult, with Oregon having to cross the country and Texas Tech coming from West Texas. The Ducks will make another trip east for their semifinal at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta next week. The national title game is back in Hard Rock Stadium on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n

As the No. 5 seed, Oregon opened the CFP with a home game in Eugene against James Madison. Texas Tech received a first-round bye as one of the top four seeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, this game should be played at Texas Tech,\u201d Oregon head coach Dan Lanning said last week. \u201cThe higher-seeded team, there should be a home-field advantage for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CFP has not extended its agreements with the Orange, Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Cotton and Peach bowls through the next six-year deal with ESPN that kicks in starting next season, but it is expected to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New Year\u2019s Six bowls have been fantastic, great partners, and they put on an incredible experience, as they have here in town with the Orange Bowl,\u201d Yormark said. \u201cSo we\u2019ll see. Everything\u2019s on the table, and hopefully we\u2019ll be very thoughtful about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yormark and the other members of the management committee are facing a Jan. 23 deadline to inform ESPN of the format for next season. A 16-team format that adds four more at-large spots to the current model has support from the SEC, but the Big Ten would like to keep on the table a 24-team format that would need at least an extra year to implement.<\/p>\n

Yormark said he would like whatever the next format is to be the format for the duration of the next contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne person\u2019s opinion is, I think wherever we settle now is something that we should play out for the foreseeable future, because you need to get some rhythm behind it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Oregon coach Dan Lanning was happy the Ducks got to face Texas Tech in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[261,168,170,169,769,2256,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-108045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-lubbock","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news","12":"tag-oregon-ducks","13":"tag-sports-business","14":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108045","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=108045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}