How Dan Lanning voted in final US LBM Coaches Poll for 2025 season
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With the Indiana Hoosiers‘ victory over the Miami Hurricanes in the national title game on Monday night, the dust has finally settled on the 2025 college football season. With that comes the final US LBM Coaches Poll, complete with dozens of coaches sending in their final top-25 results for the 2025 campaign.
Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning was among them, with the following 25 teams making his list.
- Indiana
- Miami (Fla.)
- Mississippi
- Oregon
- Ohio State
- Georgia
- Texas Tech
- Alabama
- Texas A&M
- Oklahoma
- Notre Dame
- Texas
- Brigham Young
- Utah
- Iowa
- SMU
- Michigan
- Illinois
- Washington
- Virginia
- Louisville
- James Madison
- Tulane
- Southern California
- Vanderbilt
There are a few interesting notes here, with the first being his placement of his own team.
The Ducks were played off the field against the Hoosiers in the College Football Playoff Semifinal, eventually losing by a score of 56-22. They were out-coached, out-played and out-prepared — not unlike what the Hoosiers have been doing to teams all season.
But it’s who Lanning put in front of them that may spark some intrigue, as he put the Ole Miss Rebels at No. 3 and Oregon at No. 4.
Of course, the Rebels were also defeated in the semifinal round. But the reason why a majority of the other coaches put Ole Miss ahead of Oregon, and likely Lanning’s rational reasoning as well, was that the Rebels kept it close against Hurricanes, with the game coming down to the final seconds. It was a 31-27 thriller, with Ole Miss holding the lead until a late Carson Beck touchdown rush sent Miami to the national title game.
Lanning has all the reasons in the world to believe that his team is better than Ole Miss, but rational thinking has the Rebels above the Ducks and that’s what he went with there.
He also stuck with the consensus of including each of the at-large playoff teams before any teams that didn’t make the playoff, with Oklahoma rounding out his top 10 while Notre Dame appears just outside at No. 11 — just like they were left on the outside of the playoff looking in before subsequently opting out of a bowl game altogether.
Where Lanning strays from the consensus is with his Iowa ranking, a team that finished the season 9-4 after downing Vanderbilt in the ReliaQuest Bowl. By the skin of their teeth late in the season, the Ducks managed to escape Iowa City in a driving rainstorm with a victory on a game-winning field goal.
Iowa proved tough against other opponents as well, ultimately losing by just 15 combined points in their four losses. Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti certainly noticed, as the Hoosiers also escaped Iowa City with a 20-15 win thanks to a late touchdown. Cignetti ranked Iowa at No. 11.
Also taking into consideration another team that played the Ducks tough, Lanning has Washington slotted at No. 19, also higher than consensus.
From there, he has Oregon opponents in James Madison (No. 22) and USC (No. 24) included on his list.
The main conclusions that can be drawn from Lanning’s final US LBM Coaches Poll is that he pulled from his first hand experience of tough opponents that the Ducks played and that he put his own team as the lowest-ranked semifinal participant — surely not something he, as a competitor, wants to have to do ever again.
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