What Dan Lanning said after No. 1 Oregon lost to No. 8 Ohio State in CFP quarterfinal at Rose Bowl
PASADENA, Calif. — No. 1 Oregon lost to No. 8 Ohio State 41-21 in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl.
Dan Lanning, Dillon Gabriel and Jeff Bassa recapped the loss for the Ducks (13-1), whose season comes to an end.
Below is a transcript of Lanning’s postgame press conference.
DAN LANNING
DAN LANNING: Before we get into the game, first off, just want to recognize the people in New Orleans, how we’re thinking of them, praying for them. There’s no place for that in the world for that. And the loss of life is always something that you don’t want to take for granted. And so I’m hoping for some solutions there.
But getting to the game, they clicked tonight and we didn’t. And I didn’t get our team prepared. And that’s a great team. When you play a great team like Ohio State, you can’t not be clicking on all cylinders. And they were. They were clicking on all cylinders.
But getting to the game, they clicked tonight and we didn’t. And I didn’t get our team prepared. And that’s a great team. When you play a great team like Ohio State, you can’t not be clicking on all cylinders. And they were. They were clicking on all cylinders.
We really didn’t have the ability to stop them, and we didn’t have the ability to get something going for us on offense. And we haven’t faced a lot of moments like this all year. It’s an unbelievable team. Coach Day and his staff have done an unbelievable job there.
I don’t want to discredit what our players have been able to accomplish this year. We had a great team. We just ran into a great team tonight and we didn’t play our best. Credit to those guys.
I’ll say this about our team: There wasn’t a second we stepped on the field where I felt our guys were disheartened, where they didn’t want to give the effort to go out there and play
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