Oregon head coach Dan Lanning shared his solution to success in the 12-team College Football Playoff.

“Just win. Just win,” Lanning told sports columnist John Canzano on his radio show “The Bald Faced Truth.” “They can’t turn you away if you just win. You can’t complain when you just win.”

The Ducks are the only undefeated team in the country at 12-0 heading into Saturday’s Big Ten championship game against Penn State. No other team is in a better position to control its position in the CFP bracket. If they win on Saturday, Oregon will retain its position as the top seed.

Even if they lose, the Ducks will be in a great position, even though there won’t be a bye in the first round. But that would run counter to Lanning’s formula of preventing outside forces from influencing his team’s fate.

Canzano claimed that as the conference’s TV partner, ESPN was “SEC honks” and would therefore court teams like Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama for top spots in the CFP rankings. Lanning did not dispute this assumption.

“You pay the bills, right? I mean, doesn’t the SEC pay its bills? “Who do you have a contract with?” he said. “That’s how it works. Let’s not pretend it doesn’t work any other way.”

Lanning’s obvious counterpoint is that no one on the CFP committee, ESPN analysts, college football media or biased fan bases can deny the place of a team that hasn’t lost.

But the Oregon coach took another shot at teams unhappy about potentially being eliminated from the CFP round because they lost games in the regular season. That includes three SEC teams — Alabama, Ole Miss and South Carolina — with 9-3 records. (Maybe the ACC’s Clemson will be there, too.)

“If you lose three games,” he said, “that’s a shame — right?”