LAS VEGAS — He’s selling it because he believes it. Or maybe there's no alternative when you're deep into the buildout.

Oregon is doubling down, Dan Lanning says. Just one bad game away for the program that spent more time than any other at No. 1 last season — then played its worst game since the last time they played the eventual national champion.

And lost by 46.

That was Lanning’s first game at Oregon in 2022, a brutal loss at the hands of Georgia that can only be eclipsed by the brutal loss at the hands of eventual national champion Ohio State in last year’s Rose Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal — as the nation’s No.1 team and national title favorite.

But ignore those bookend beatdowns, there’s a bigger picture here.

“The process works,” Lanning said on the dais

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