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Washington moved up to No. 3, Florida State to No. 4 and Oregon to No. 5 in The Associated Press poll Sunday, giving the Pac-12 two of the top five teams for the first time since the final ranking of the 2016 season. Georgia remained AP’S No. 1 as the two-time defending national champions have been for 24 straight polls, dating back to the middle of the last season. The Bulldogs received 52 of 62 first-place votes. Michigan returned to AP No. 2 following a week at No. 3 and received 10 first-place votes after beating Ohio State 3024 in Ann Arbor on Saturday. The Buckeyes slipped from second to No. 6. No. 7 Texas and No. 8 Alabama held their places.

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Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi fired offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Frank Cignetti, a day after the Panthers (3-9) finished their worst season in a quarter century by falling to Duke 3019. Pitt’s offense was a major issue, with the Panthers shuttling between three quarterbacks in Phil Jurkovec, Christian Veilleux and Nate Yarnell.

MOTORSPORTS: Francesco Bagnaia won the Valencia GP and clinched his second straight Motogp title Sunday. Bagnaia finished the race ahead of fellow Italian Fabio Di Giannantonio and Frenchman Johann Zarco. The 26-year-old rider from Ducati finished the season with 467 points, 39 points ahead of Spaniard Jorge Martin. It was the seventh win of the season for Bagnaia, who was ahead in the riders’ championship for most of the season. Martin, who did not finish Sunday’s race, won four races this season.

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PRO SOCCER: Terry Venables, a former England player who coached the national team to the European Championship semifinals and coached teams to trophies at club level with Barcelona and Tottenham, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 80.

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WOMEN’S SKIING: Mikaela

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Shiffrin built on her first-run lead to win a World Cup slalom in Killington, Vt., for her recordextending career victory No. 90. The American two-time Olympic champ posted the fastest time in both runs and beat Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova by 0.33 seconds. Shiffrin is from Colorado but can almost consider Killington a hometown race because she honed her skills nearby at the Burke Mountain Academy as a teen. Shiffrin gathered her 90 wins from 254 starts on the World Cup since her 2011 debut.