Two powers slip in AP rankings
Clemson and Ohio State slipped to the back of the top 10 in the Associated Press college football poll and Penn State jumped up four spots to No. 6 after another weekend in which a lot of ranked teams had issues.
Even No. 1 Alabama. The defending national champion Crimson Tide remained an overwhelming No. 1 after holding on to beat Florida 3129. Alabama received 59 of 62 first-place votes.
No. 2 Georgia, which had no problem with South Carolina, got the other three first-place votes. No. 3 Oregon moved up a spot, and No. 4 Oklahoma slipped one after a close victory over Nebraska.
Iowa was No. 5 for a second straight week. Penn State beat Auburn to give it two victories against ranked teams, with the other a win over Wisconsin.
No. 9 Clemson and No. 10 Ohio State both won, but neither looked dominant. The Tigers dropped three spots and the Buckeyes one.
UCLA (2-1), which fell 4037 to Fresno State late Saturday at the Rose Bowl, dropped 11 spots to No. 24. The Bulldogs (3-1) entered the poll at No. 22.
Wisconsin running back Antwan Roberts entered the transfer portal less than three weeks after he was suspended from the team.
Max Homa holed out from the rough from 95 yards for an eagle on the par-four 12th to start a backnine comeback and shot a seven-under-par 65 for a one-stroke win in the PGA Tour’s season-opening Fortinet Championship in Napa, Calif. Homa finished at 19under 269 to edge Maverick McNealy, who had a 68.
Jin Young Ko won the rain-shortened Cambia Portland Classic in West Linn, Ore., shooting a threeunder 69 at Oregon Golf Club to finish at 11-under 205 for a four-stroke victory . ... Darren Clarke won the
Stanford International in Sioux Falls, S.D., for his third PGA Tour Champions victory of the season, beating K.J. Choi with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff.
Colton Herta won at Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif., and Alex Palou finished second to widen his lead in the IndyCar standings . ... Tim Wilkerson raced to his second funny car victory in three weeks, winning at the DeWalt NHRA Carolina Nationals in Concord, N.C. Josh Hart won in top fuel, Kyle Koretsky in pro stock and Angelle Sampey in pro stock motorcycle in the second race in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs.
Natisha Hiedeman had 16 points off the bench, and the Connecticut Sun closed out the WNBA regular season with a 14-game winning streak, topping the visiting Atlanta Dream 84-64.
Taylor Canfield of Team Stars+Stripes prevailed at the Long Beach Yacht Club to capture his fifth Congressional Cup, making him the winningest skipper in the 56year history of one of the world’s premier match-racing regattas.
In MLS, FC Dallas fired coach Luchi Gonzalez and replaced him on an interim bases with Marco Ferruzzi, the club’s director of soccer operations . ... Lionel Messi hit the crossbar with a curling free kick and looked angry at being taken off in the 75th minute in his home debut for Paris Saint-Germain, which won 2-1 over Lyon in the French league.
Defending champion Filippo Ganna of Italy shattered home fans’ hopes of a 1-2 for their riders and retained the men’s time trial title in Brugge, Belgium, to secure back-to-back gold medals at the road world championships.