AP Top 25: Oregon re-enters Top 10 after 20-17 win over Utah
After beating Utah 20-17, Oregon moved back into the top 10 of the latest AP Top 25.
The Ducks enter into a regular-season finale against Oregon State ranked No. 10 in the latest media poll, released Sunday. Oregon is the second-highest-ranked team from the Pac-12 — which once again has six in the rankings. Oregon was voted as high as sixth in this week’s poll and as low as 13th.
Oregon (9-2, 7-1 Pac-12) took down the Utes Saturday night at Autzen Stadium despite a hobbled Bo Nix. It was a bit of payback after the way last year’s two meetings with Utah went, and the Ducks did it by giving Utah a dose of its own medicine. Oregon was the tougher team at the line of scrimmage, getting a strong defensive performance that limited Utah to a season-low for points and forced three turnovers from Cameron Rising.
Utah fell to 14th in the poll. Despite a three-point home loss to Washington on Nov. 12 and the same record, Oregon remains two spots ahead of the Huskies in the media poll.
Next weekend’s trip to Corvallis will be a top-25 showdown for the Ducks. Oregon State moved up to 22nd in the media poll after beating Arizona State 31-7 on Saturday.
The rest of the poll can be seen below (with first-place votes in parenthesis):
- Georgia (62)
- Ohio State (1)
- Michigan
- TCU
- USC
- LSU
- Clemson
- Alabama
- Tennessee
- Oregon
- Penn State
- Washington
- Notre Dame
- Utah
- Kansas State
- Florida State
- UCLA
- North Carolina
- Tulane
- Ole Miss
- Cincinnati
- Oregon State
- Coastal Carolina
- Texas
- UCF
Receiving votes: UTSA 85, South Carolina 44, Troy 34, Boise State 16, Illinois 12, Iowa 5, Louisville 5, South Alabama 3, Mississippi State 3, Oklahoma State 2, Arkansas 2, Purdue 2, Fresno State 1