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Facing fourth-and-9 with its undefeated regular season at stake heading into the final quarter against Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium, the Oregon football team had known all week what it was going to do.
Ahead of the biggest fourth-down call of the season to that point, trailing the unranked Badgers on Nov. 16 in Madison, the Ducks started to dance and jump.
“Jump Around” has played during the second half of Wisconsin games for decades. With the whole stadium of Badgers red rocking to House of Pain, Oregon joined in just before the most significant moment of the season to that point.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel converted by slicing a pass through the Badgers’ secondary to Terrance Ferguson, and after more late-game heroics, the Ducks slipped past Wisconsin to preserve its undefeated regular season, 16-13.
The Ducks, and third-year head coach Dan Lanning, had prepared for that exact moment, one that was months in the making.
While Oregon didn’t reach the ever-elusive College Football Playoff national championship, falling to Ohio State in the quarterfinals in the Rose Bowl, players, coaches and fans agree Lanning is the leader who can help bring the Ducks to the biggest stage.
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From the time Lanning played college football at William Jewell College in Missouri from 2004-07, he knew he wanted to work in the sport and eventually become an NCAA Division I head coach.
The Kansas City native drove 13 hours to Pittsburgh to get one of his first jobs coaching college football under Pitt head coach Todd Graham in 2011 after coaching at Park Hill South High School for three years. He followed Graham to Arizona State as a graduate…
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Author : The Register-Guard
Publish date : 2025-01-11 13:00:00
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