{"id":11366,"date":"2025-10-19T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11366\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:18:09","slug":"texas-am-aggies-enter-top-3-in-the-rankings-following-arkansas-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11366\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M Aggies enter top 3 in the rankings following Arkansas win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the first time in 30 years, Texas A&amp;M is ranked as a top three team. The Ags extended their season-opening win streak to seven on Saturday night, defeating Arkansas 45-42 in Fayetteville. And thanks to Miami\u2019s Friday night home loss to Louisville, the Aggies continue their steady climb in the rankings. A&amp;M rose one spot to No. 3 in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/coaches-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today Coaches Poll<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP Top 25<\/a> as we enter Week 9. It marks the first time that A&amp;M has been ranked in the top three since 1995, and they are 7-0 for the first time since 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, the real tests begin. A&amp;M now heads to Death Valley to face No. 20 LSU, a place they haven\u2019t won in since\u2026. you guessed it\u2026 1994. Even with the Tigers sitting at 5-2 coming off a road loss to Vanderbilt, this will be a major gut check for the Aggies. Lose this one, and you still have everything to play for, but win it, and it feels like a real statement that this team is for real, and the Aggies\u2019 first College Football Playoff berth begins to move from possibility more toward certainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The game in Baton Rouge kicks off at 6:30 p.m. and airs on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in 30 years, Texas A&amp;M is ranked as a top three team. The Ags&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9830,9831,27,9832,29,28],"class_list":["post-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-gbh-authors","tag-rcb05","tag-texas","tag-texas-aggie-football","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}