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Oregon football vs. Penn State preview: Big Ten championship game filled with intriguing matchups
The Oregon offensive line vs. Abdul Carter. The Oregon defense vs. Tyler Warren. Dan Lanning vs. James Franklin.
As with so many highly ranked, conference championship tilts, Saturday’s Big Ten championship game between No. 1 Oregon and No. 3 Penn State has no shortage of intriguing matchups. And to the winner, the spoils of a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff.
Both teams will make the playoff field, but there is plenty on the line Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Big Ten championship: No. 1 Oregon (12-0) vs. No. 3 Penn State (11-1)
When: Saturday, Dec. 7
Time: 5 p.m. PT
Where: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis
Coaches: Dan Lanning, third year (34-5) vs. James Franklin, 11th year (99-40)
Latest line: Ducks by 3.5 (odds via FanDuel)
TV channel: CBS
Stream: You can watch this game live for FREE with Fubo (free trial) or with DirecTV Stream (free trial). If you already have a cable provider, use your login information to watch this game on cbssports.com.
Oregon uniform combination: Black jerseys, black pants, green helmets.
What’s at stake: The winner of Saturday’s conference championship will receive a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff and a trip to the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. The loser will still make the playoff, and likely host a first-round game on their campus Dec. 20 or 21.
Oregon offense vs. Penn State defense
The Penn State defense is formidable and highly physical, led by superstar pass rusher Abdul Carter. It has a lot of similarities to Oregon’s defense, which could either bode well for Dillon Gabriel and company or be their undoing, depending on how you look at it. Practicing against a group of this caliber helps, but it only goes so far. Carter will be hunting for Gabriel all night.
What will be key for the Ducks offense is finding balance and creative ways to attack the Nittany Lions, who rank 7th in passing yards allowed and 7th in rushing yards allowed. An obvious weak point isn’t readily apparent.
The same could be said for this explosive group of Oregon playmakers, though, led by the now-healthy Tez Johnson and bellcow back Jordan James. It’s good vs. good in this particular 11-on-11 matchup on Saturday, so which group will rise to the top?
Oregon defense vs. Penn State offense
Where the game could turn Oregon’s way is with its defense on the field. Penn State is less of a threat through the air, beyond getting the ball to all-world tight end Tyler Warren. This is a run-first team. And while Drew Allar is efficient, he isn’t relied upon nearly as much as Gabriel is for the Ducks.
Forcing Penn State into difficult passing situations by shutting down the run will be key for Oregon’s defense. And not allowing Warren to take over the game by finding empty spaces in the secondary could be the difference between a close game and a potentially lop-sided scoreline. The Ducks’ front seven has proven its ability to stop the run, and will need to do so again.
Matchup to watch: Oregon’s offensive line vs. Abdul Carter
What Dan Lanning said: “You line up against who they put in the bracket. At the end of the day, you got to win your games to get to the end. Obviously there’s benefit to having more time to prepare for an opponent and you should have a benefit if you go and win your conference championship game. There’s definitely a huge advantage there of putting yourself a step closer to the end-all goal.”
Key stat: Carter had 10 sacks this season. But Oregon’s Matayo Uiagalelei had more with 10.5.
Prediction: Oregon 30, Penn State 27
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— Ryan Clarke covers the Oregon Ducks and Big Ten Conference. Listen to the Ducks Confidential podcast or subscribe to the Ducks Roundup newsletter.
FALLS CITY, Ore. — A 63-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing a man with a shotgun during a fight at a Falls City, Oregon property back in 2024.
A jury convicted Terry Lawrence Allwen of second-degree murder back on March 20, the Polk County District Attorney’s Office said.
He was sentenced Friday to serve life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
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Allwen was also convicted of other charges like manslaughter, assault, and felon in possession of a firearm, but the sentences for those crimes will be served concurrently with the life sentence.
Court records show that Allwen was staying in an RV parked on a property owned by the victim, 79-year-old Bo Johnson.
At about 9 a.m. on May 31, 2024, Allwen and Johnson got into a verbal fight over some personal property. During that fight, Allwen got a shotgun from his trunk and shot Johnson once, killing him.
“Mr. Johnson had many more years to spend with his family. His senseless murder destroyed the dreams and plans of so many that loved him. I hope that the fact Mr. Allwen today received the maximum possible sentence will bring the family of Mr. Johnson some relief and sense of justice.”
If Allwen is granted parole, the judge also ordered that he have a lifetime of post-prison supervision.
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.
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