{"id":131871,"date":"2026-01-21T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131871\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:59:18","slug":"red-raider-football-finishes-7th-in-final-ap-poll-best-finish-in-program-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131871\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raider football finishes 7th in final AP poll, best finish in program history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Shortly after No. Indiana claimed its first-ever national title with a 27-21 win over then No. 10 Miami, the Associated Press released its final rankings from the 2025 season and the Texas Tech Red Raiders (12-2, 9-1 Big 12) finished at No. 7- the best in program history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This ranking is also highest of the six Texas schools listed including No. 8 Texas A&amp;M (11-2), No. 12 Texas (10-3), No. 22 Houston (10-3), No. 24 North Texas (12-2) and No. 25 TCU (9-4).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Along with Tech, Houston and TCU, other Big 12 schools are No. 11 BYU (12-2) and No. 14 Utah (11-2), Arizona (9-4) received votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders begin their 2026 campaign Saturday, Sept. 5 against Abilene Christian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Shortly after No. Indiana claimed its first-ever national title with a 27-21 win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[557,29905,315,2880,168,170,169,311,760,1769,873],"class_list":["post-131871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-associated-press","tag-associated-press-rankings","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-football","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-red-raider-football","tag-texas-football","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131871","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=131871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}