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Dan Lanning, Oregon prepared for raucous environment at Washington

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No. 8 Oregon will travel to No. 7 Washington this weekend in a highly anticipated West coast showdown that could determine an early leader in the Pac-12 title race. Oregon coach Dan Lanning knows it’ll be a raucous environment, one his team will need to be locked in and prepared for.

He jumped on ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday morning to discuss the matchup.

“It’s going to be a fun one,” Lanning said. “We love a hostile environment, but this one’s going to be about getting right in the middle of the eye of the storm and finding the calm within the chaos and going out there and doing your job.”

Lanning stressed the need to stay calm amid any swings in the game. There are likely to be several of them with high-powered offenses on both sides.

While Bo Nix has captained Oregon to a perfect 5-0 start, so too has Washington gunslinger Michael Penix Jr. Penix has been one of the nation’s most prolific passers, throwing for 1,999 yards and 16 touchdowns already, while being picked off only twice.

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But it’s Nix that will have to contend with the full voice of the crowd.

To that end, Lanning and his squad have done what they can to prepare for the ferocity of the crowd.

“You just play crowd noise as loud as you can at practice every day,” Lanning said.

As far as managing the emotions once the game gets started, Lanning admitted his guys will have to be very locked in to avoid making silly mistakes fueled by emotion.

That’s something he’s preached to his team for a while, but essentially his advice boils down to being able to reset quickly when adversity hits.

“You’ve got to hit the reset button,” Dan Lanning said. “You’ve got to hit the reset button, you’ve got to focus on the moment. In each individual moment the most important play is the next play. When you’re playing for your brother, that’s what you do, you sacrifice that. You sacrifice your temperament to play at a high level.”

Oregon and Washington are set for a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff with a national broadcast on ABC.