Oregon's Dan Lanning Sends Strong Warning to College Football Playoff Teams

No matter what anybody wants to say about how the University of Oregon played to start the season, I think it's very fair to suggest that most teams in the College Football Playoff wouldn't want to play them.

Not to say that teams are going to want to play Georgia, Alabama, Notre Dame, or Texas and Miami instead of Oregon, but I think we could argue that teams would much rather play UCLA, BYU, Kentucky, Wake Forest, and some other teams right there in the mix. 

For whatever could happen, Oregon is now in a position to make the College Football Playoff, ranked No. 16 by the committee in the rankings released earlier in the week. Oregon will take on a struggling Michigan team this week, but typically, games against Michigan are no easy task.

We have to give credit to what Oregon was able to do last week as well against Ohio State, and while the Buckeyes have struggled a tad this year, Ohio State is still a great program with a lot of history that just happens to be banged up right now. The Buckeyes still have a ton of talent on both sides of the football.

If there's one thing for certain, Oregon head coach Dan Lanning is going to have his guys ready to play day in and day out. If Oregon ends up making the College Football Playoff, it's not going to be easy for other teams to beat them. S

peaking about how he feels if his team can sneak into the playoffs, Lanning said that he doesn't think many teams in the country are going to want to play him, and it's almost tough to disagree with him.

"Based on what we show we're capable of and how we're playing right now, I'm sure a lot of teams don't want us in those 12 teams, especially coming down the stretch. And if it's about having the best teams in the end, we've got to see who's playing the best football at the end. And we get an opportunity to go out here Saturday and show that," Dan Lanning said, H/T Bri Amaranthus.

"...I think one thing that I've kind of really helped myself with is what you hear coach (Nick) Saban say all the time is like, we don't control outcomes, but we can influence outcomes," Lanning said. "And we got a bunch of players in that room that don't want to quit."

There are obviously some factors as to why teams could want to play Oregon, and the Dante Moore piece is a big part of it all. There's an expectation that Moore is going to miss the remainder of the season, though who knows what could happen if Oregon does end up making the College Football Playoff. 

Dylan Raiola has played well after Moore went down, but Moore has been in Lanning's system for a few years now and likely ran the offense at a bit better clip.