Oregon is heading out to Atlanta, Georgia this weekend for a neutral site game. The Chick-fil-A Kickoff will have activities surrounding the game. Atlanta offers its own attractions. Oregon will participate in none of it.

Ducks Wire’s Zachary Neel asked head coach Dan Lanning on Wednesday if they had anything planned for the team to do outside of the football game. His response was pretty classic Lanning.

“No,” he told Neel. “We’re going there for work. We’ve got a job to do.”

The Ducks will battle the defending national champions in the Georgia Bulldogs. That’s a tall task in a season-opener for any team in any kind of situation. And Oregon is breaking in a first-year head coach with a new staff and transfers starting in key spots — including potentially at quarterback.

As the game draws closer, it sounds like the Bulldogs have Oregon’s full attention. You’d expect nothing less from a big-time program, or from Lanning, who has quickly established himself as a no-nonsense kind of coach.

The Ducks are a 17-point underdog in the game. Lanning isn’t bothered.

“We don’t really bother ourselves about the opinions of others,” Lanning said earlier this week. “Nobody in Vegas is going to play in this game. Our players are going to play in this game. We know what everyone thinks about our team, and that’s OK by us.”

Lanning will be coaching against his former team and his former boss. He downplayed the significance of it.

“Kirby Smart’s not gonna play a single snap on Saturday, and neither is Dan Lanning,” he said. “So it doesn’t really matter what I know. It matters what my players know and what they can execute.”

All business.

The 11th-ranked Ducks kick off against the third-ranked Bulldogs at 12:30 p.m. PT on ABC.