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AP Top 25: Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, Miami lead poll ahead of first Playoff rankings
In the last AP Top 25 before the College Football Playoff selection committee weighs in, Oregon became the first team to be a unanimous No. 1 during the past three regular seasons and No. 8 Indiana and No. 13 SMU both surged up the rankings Sunday.
The Ducks received 62 first-place votes, winning over the last remaining holdout after getting 61 last week with Georgia receiving one. The Bulldogs were the last team to be unanimous No. 1 during the regular season, holding the top spot for eight straight weeks in 2021.
During the CFP era, the national champion has typically been a unanimous No. 1 in the final poll.
Georgia remained No. 2 with a win against Florida, seven points ahead of Ohio State after the Buckeyes beat Penn State 20-13 on Saturday in Happy Valley. No. 4 Miami and No. 5 Texas each moved up a spot. Penn State dropped three spots to No. 6 after losing for the first time this season, and Tennessee held at No. 7.
Indiana jumped five places into the top 10 for the first time this season. The Hoosiers are 9-0 for the first time in program history. Indiana last cracked the top 10 and peaked at No. 7 for four weeks of the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. Before that, the Hoosiers’ last top-10 appearance was in 1969.
AP Top 25 after Week 10
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Rank
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Team
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Record
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Prev.
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Matt’s vote
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Diff
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1 |
9-0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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|
2 |
7-1 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
|
3 |
7-1 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
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|
4 |
9-0 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
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|
5 |
7-1 |
6 |
6 |
-1 |
|
|
6 |
7-1 |
3 |
8 |
-2 |
|
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7 |
7-1 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
|
|
8 |
9-0 |
13 |
5 |
3 |
|
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9 |
8-0 |
9 |
9 |
0 |
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10 |
7-1 |
8 |
11 |
-1 |
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|
11 |
6-2 |
14 |
13 |
-2 |
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12 |
7-1 |
15 |
12 |
0 |
|
|
13 |
8-1 |
20 |
10 |
3 |
|
|
14 |
6-2 |
16 |
16 |
-2 |
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15 |
7-2 |
10 |
15 |
0 |
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16 |
7-2 |
19 |
18 |
-2 |
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17 |
7-1 |
11 |
14 |
3 |
|
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18 |
8-0 |
21 |
17 |
1 |
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19 |
6-2 |
11 |
24 |
-5 |
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|
20 |
7-1 |
22 |
22 |
-2 |
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21 |
6-2 |
23 |
20 |
1 |
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22 |
7-2 |
17 |
19 |
3 |
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23 |
7-1 |
18 |
21 |
2 |
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24 |
6-3 |
NR |
25 |
-1 |
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25 |
6-3 |
NR |
23 |
2 |
Others receiving votes: Missouri 81, South Carolina 58, Tulane 41, UNLV 9, Louisiana 9, Washington 4, Arizona State 3, Iowa 2, Texas Tech 2
SMU was the biggest mover up, climbing seven spots from No. 20 to a season-high 13th after routing previously unbeaten Pitt. The Mustangs have their highest ranking since pre-NCAA death penalty in 1987. SMU began the 1985 No. 3 in the nation before finishing unranked. During its time in the American Athletic Conference, the Mustangs had four seasons during which they were ranked at some point, with a peak of No. 15 in 2019.
BYU is No. 9 and Notre Dame rounds out the top 10. After both Iowa State and Kansas State lost to unranked opponents Saturday, BYU is the only Big 12 team in the top 16. The Cyclones are 17th, Colorado is 21st and Kansas State is No. 22.
Undefeated Army is up to No. 18, its highest ranking since reaching the top 10 in 1962.
How will the poll compare to the CFP rankings?
The first CFP rankings in the expanded 12-team playoff will be released Tuesday night. During the 10 years of the four-team format, the selection committee’s initial rankings and the previous AP poll have had the same No. 1 team five times.
In only three instances, including last year, were the same four teams ranked in the top four in both the AP poll and first CFP Top 25 — but never in the same order.
Small differences seem huge when the cut-off is the top four. Generally, the two rankings are not drastically different. This season, the hot spot will be Nos. 10-14.
The AP’s 10-14 was shaken up this week with three upsets. Texas A&M, Clemson and Iowa State all lost to unranked teams Saturday. That cleared the way for No. 11 Alabama and No. 14 LSU to move up ahead of their matchup in Baton Rouge, La., next Saturday night.
Boise State is up three spots to No. 12, its highest AP ranking since 2011. The committee has historically been less bullish on Group of 5 teams, but where they land in the rankings has high stakes attached to it.
The 12-team CFP format reserves spots for the five highest-ranked conference champions, guaranteeing a spot for at least one team from outside the Power 5 conferences. Those teams are also eligible to receive at-large bids, but in the four-team system with no automatic access for conference champions, only once did a non-Power 5 team make the field: Cincinnati out of the AAC in 2021. — Ralph Russo, national college football writer
In and out
Illinois (6-3) ended a seven-week run in the rankings, tumbling out after losing to Minnesota on Saturday.
No. 25 Louisville (6-3) jumped back into the Top 25 after spending five weeks ranked earlier this season. The Cardinals beat Clemson for the first time in program history on Saturday night in Death Valley.
No. 24 Vanderbilt (6-3) is back in the poll after the Commodores broke an 11-year drought earlier this season. Vandy won at Auburn on Saturday, giving the school victories against both Alabama SEC teams for the first time since 1955.
Missouri, which had been barely hanging on to its ranking at No. 25, dropped out during an idle week. — Russo
How I voted this week
• Indiana has been the most underrated team in the poll for a while, but voters are finally coming around to giving the season’s biggest surprise team respect. No, the Hoosiers haven’t played a daunting schedule, but they dominate opponents week after week. They rank second in yards per play differential and first in point differential. In other words, they do what a good team is supposed to do. I have Indiana all the way up at No. 5 on my ballot, and it finally moved up five spots in the poll to No. 8 after its 47-10 win against Michigan State moved it to 9-0 for the first time.
• A case could be made to jump Ohio State ahead of Georgia for No. 2 after winning at Penn State, especially given the Bulldogs’ struggles to pull away from Florida for much of Saturday. Then again, Ohio State had the same problem against Nebraska last week. Ultimately, they feel similar, both among the most talented teams in the country and capable of winning the national championship, but neither consistently hitting its full potential. I kept Georgia at No. 2 but moved the Buckeyes up two spots after I had them lower than the poll at fifth last week. It’s a close call. Georgia can strengthen its position with a win against Ole Miss next week.
• I moved Louisville in at No. 23, one spot ahead of Clemson. Clemson had been getting the benefit of the doubt with its only loss coming to Georgia, but it was blown out in that game and had feasted on a weak ACC slate. Though Louisville has one more loss, its three losses have come by seven points each to ranked teams (Notre Dame, Miami and SMU), and now it owns a dominant road win against the Tigers — its largest road win against a ranked team since 2000. Clemson hasn’t done anything to deserve being ranked ahead of the Cardinals, who did at least crack the poll at No. 25.
• I’m also higher on SMU than most of the rest of the voting panel. I vaulted the Mustangs to No. 10 on my ballot after their largest win against a ranked team since 1985. Not only did they blow out Pitt, which is still ranked, but their win against Louisville got a boost by the Cardinals’ big night at Clemson. Plus, SMU’s only loss is by three to unbeaten BYU. — Matt Brown college sports managing editor and AP Top 25 voter
What’s next in Week 11?
No. 1 Oregon will be heavily favored in hosting Maryland next Saturday, as will No. 3 Ohio State against Purdue. In the rest of the top five, No. 4 Miami visits Georgia Tech and No. 5 Texas hosts Florida, which may be down to its third-string quarterback. The week has a pair of ranked matchups, both in the SEC:
No. 11 Alabama at No. 14 LSU. The Tigers and Tide will meet as ranked teams for the 32nd time, including 17 of the past 19 meetings.
No. 2 Georgia at No. 16 Ole Miss. This will be the third straight meeting dating back to 2016 the Bulldogs and Rebels will both be ranked.
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The Oregon Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a Lane County man who once photographed child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and was convicted in 2021 on several child pornography charges.
Randall DeWitt Simons, 73, of Oakridge, was charged in 2019 with 15 counts of first-degree encouraging child sex abuse. He was later convicted on every count and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Simons was first arrested after authorities began investigating a report from a restaurant in Oakridge that someone had been using the restaurant’s Wi-Fi to download inappropriate and concerning images.
Law enforcement officers directed the business to track, log, and report all of the user’s internet activity to the investigating officer for more than a year, without a warrant.
Police tracked the computer’s IP address from the restaurant’s Wi-Fi system, which led officers to a man who lived near the restaurant and had given Simons a computer, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Lane County Circuit Court. Investigators obtained a warrant to search the laptop in Simon’s home, relying on information they had collected over time. He was subsequently arrested.
On March 26, the court ruled warrantless internet surveillance on public Wi-Fi violates privacy.
In an opinion written by Justice Bronson D. James, the court held that the Oregon Constitution recognizes people have a right to privacy in their internet browsing activities and the right is not extinguished when they use a publicly accessible wireless network. It’s even true in cases where that access is conditioned on a person accepting a terms-of-service agreement that says a provider may monitor activity and cooperate with law enforcement, James wrote.
During criminal proceedings in the Lane County Circuit Court, Simons moved to controvert the warrant and suppress the evidence obtained by police, arguing the business was a “state actor for purposes of Article I, section 9, and that its year-long warrantless surveillance was an unconstitutional, warrantless search attributable to the state,” the Supreme Court opinion said.
The Circuit Court denied Simon’s motion. The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s decision in part and stated Simons had no cognizable privacy interest in his internet activities performed on a third-party network.
The Oregon Supreme Court rejected the state’s argument.
“The mere fact that a person accesses the internet through a public network does not eliminate their Article I, section 9, right to privacy in their online activities,” according to James. “Even when access is expressly conditioned on a user’s acceptance of terms-of-service provisions purporting to alert the user that the provider may monitor activity and cooperate with law enforcement.”
Justice K. Bushong suggested in a partial dissent the Court should reconsider its approach in a future case to what constitutes a “search” under the Oregon Constitution. The court’s decision reverses the Court of Appeals and sends the case back to the Lane County Circuit Court for further proceedings.
Simons has maintained his innocence since he was arrested in 2019.
Simons had been a photographer for 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey a few months before her still-unsolved 1996 murder, the Associated Press reported in 1998.
In October 1998, Simons was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure in Lincoln County, Colorado. According to the book “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town” by Lawrence Schiller, Simons was arrested in 1998 for allegedly walking nude down a residential street in the small town of Genoa, Colorado. Simons allegedly offered to the arresting deputy unprovoked, “I didn’t kill JonBenét.”
Haleigh Kochanski is a breaking news and public safety reporter for The Register-Guard. You may reach her at HKochanski@gannett.com.
Umatilla, Morrow counties establish Young Republicans of Oregon chapter
Published 8:00 pm Wednesday, March 25, 2026
IRRIGON — Young Republicans living in Umatilla and Morrow counties now can join a local chapter of the statewide Young Republicans of Oregon organization.
The Umatilla Morrow Young Republicans will advance Republican values and leadership in young residents through political training, networking opportunities and connection to Republican leaders. The group is focused on young adults, generally attracting college-aged people, though it includes people aged 18 to 40.
The five Young Republicans of Oregon members living in Umatilla and Morrow counties elected three officers to lead their new chapter. Irrigon’s Evan Purves was elected chair, with Connor Roberts of Hermiston as his vice chair and Kaelyn Moore of Milton-Freewater serving as secretary.
“I am super grateful for this opportunity to lead my neighbors,” Purves said. “It’s going to be really fun. We have some good events planned.”
Purves, 19, is a student at Blue Mountain Community College who eventually hopes to pursue a four-year degree in public administration. He initially became interested in the Young Republicans during an internship with Oregon state Rep. Greg Smith, of Heppner. He said it was an experience that showed him how the legislature works.
The internship also inspired him to step into a leadership role with the Young Republicans and help establish a local chapter of the organization. The newest chapter of the Young Republicans of Oregon, which was announced Monday, March 23, has been in the works since November 2025.
The Young Republicans of Oregon State Chair, Tanner Elliott, said the new chapter — the fourth chapter statewide — indicates momentum for conservative values.
“In less than a year, we’ve continued expanding because young conservatives are stepping up and getting involved in their communities,” Elliott said. “I want to congratulate the chapter’s leadership team on their election and especially commend their new chair Evan Purves for taking on this role. I’m confident this group will make a meaningful impact in Eastern Oregon and help drive our organization forward.”
Future plans in Umatilla, Morrow counties
The leadership team of UMYR already is making efforts to effect change.
In early May, Purves said, Umatilla Morrow Young Republicans will host a door knocking campaign in support of Smith’s reelection campaign. There also will be an official kickoff event the same weekend celebrating the new chapter and outlining priorities for the future.
“If there’s anything that we might struggle with is membership,” he said. “The recruiting part is us going out there and hosting events and socials, having opportunities for people to come out and do something fun that anybody’s invited to.”
Regarding other priorities, voter engagement is important to Purves,
“Even though we live in a big conservative area, there’s not a lot of politically engaged people, especially in my generation,” he said. “We want to get them involved.”
He said one of his concerns is businesses leaving the state due to policies that aren’t friendly to corporations, a common issue raised by Republican lawmakers. The decisions being made impact every community, he said, and he wants to have a say in what the leaders are doing.
“These bills affect all of us,” he said. “It’s just important to get people involved and get people to vote and be a part of it.”
People interested in updates on the efforts of the Umatilla Morrow Young Republicans can follow the group on Facebook or Instagram or become a member at yro.gop.
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