{"id":131908,"date":"2026-01-21T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131908\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:35:09","slug":"texas-tech-football-finish-ranked-in-the-top-ten-in-final-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131908\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Football Finish Ranked In The Top Ten In Final Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a historic year for the Texas Tech football team and it has ended with a little bit of history being made as well. And now fans can look ahead to the upcoming football season and firmly believe that the Red Raiders could be the next team to shock the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech Earns Its Highest Final Ranking Ever<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech Football has never ended the season in the top ten of either the AP or Coaches Polls. Until now. After winning a school record 12 games and its first Big 12 Championship, Texas Tech finished ranked #7 in both polls.<\/p>\n<p>The Big 12 overall had five teams ranked the final top 25 teams.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KFYOAM.png\" alt=\"News\/Talk 95.1 &amp; 790 KFYO logo\"\/>2026 Texas Tech Football<\/p>\n<p>Many fans are already looking ahead to the next\u00a0season of Texas Tech Football. On Wednesday the upcoming schedule will be released.<\/p>\n<p>23 Things That We Need in Lubbock, TXWe asked our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/790KFYO\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook audience<\/a> what Lubbock is missing, and their responses left nothing to the imagination. <\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n<p>These Are the 12 Different Regions of TexasThanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/comptroller.texas.gov\/economy\/economic-data\/regions\/2024\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Comptroller&#8217;s Office<\/a>, we can see how Texas is split among 12 different regions. Check out how large each one is and how many counties are found within each slice of Texas!<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a historic year for the Texas Tech football team and it has ended with a little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,154,2630],"class_list":{"0":"post-131908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131908","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=131908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}