Dan Lanning on how to get him in college football video game: 'Just ask'

Dan Lanning would love to be in the EA Sports College Football 25 game, or perhaps some future iteration.

With players opting in to benefit from name, image and likeness, the game’s hype is stronger than ever. Reviews are in and the game is a hit.

Lanning won’t be playing much and he tried to downplay his excitement, but he did order a copy.

“Just ask,” Lanning said. “I mean, I’m not a gamer. I don’t really care that much about it. I say that. I mean, I did just order it the other day on Amazon so, I’m not gonna be playing it but my kids might be playing it. So I just want something over the house and the players when they come over, they can play the game, but it should be fun. Certainly some excitement around that game.”

If you ever wanted to create a college football superstar and immerse yourself in the game, “Road to Glory” is the mode for you. Unless you want to be like Lanning, then you can play “Dynasty.”

“This is the one that you’re the player and you get to make decisions based on that player,” On3’s Andy Staples said. “So you go through that player’s college career, and you basically take him through his career, it could be three years, it could be five years and at the end, you know, hopefully you’re off to the NFL Draft. 

“But the decisions you have to make mimic the decisions that were at the Elite Series here for On3. So we’ve got five-star recruits that are learning about what life is gonna be like as college football stars, the decisions they’re gonna have to make, the same decisions you’re gonna have to make in Road to Glory.”

Lanning goes into Year 3 at Oregon this fall with a 22-5 record. The team finished No. 6 overall in the AP Poll with a Fiesta Bowl win.

If anything, Lanning loves Oregon for its innovation as well. The next question is, where else can the players play EA’s hit game?

“When I think of Oregon, and before I ever took this job, you know, outside looking in, you see a place that’s innovative,” Lanning said. “And that’s really kind of been the mantra of this program, you know, especially for the last 25 years of, ‘How can we be on the cutting edge? How can we do what other people don’t do better? How can we be different?’”