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A long road to a meteoric rise: A 13-hour, Mountain Dew-fueled drive and Dan Lanning's path to stardom

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Dan Lanning is one of the youngest head coaches in college football.

The 38-year-old Oregon Ducks are ranked No. 3 in the AP preseason poll.

The Ducks are the second -favorite to win the Big Ten and are expected to make a run at a title.

Lanning has had nearly every job you can have in the sport -- from graduate assistant, recruiting coordinator, to special teams coach.

Lanning drove from Kansas City to Pittsburgh to be a graduate assistant at Pitt .

Lanning quickly impressed those around him and made the leap from volunteer to intern to graduate assistant in three months .

At Arizona State , Lanning was a recruiting coordinator and defensive backs coach at Sam Houston State .

At Memphis, he was the defensive coordinator at the University of Memphis , where he is now head coach.

Oregon 's Dan Lanning is the first head-coaching coach at the University of Oregon .

Lanning says he prided himself on finding the jobs nobody else wanted to do and excelling at them.

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81

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English

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