{"id":2463,"date":"2025-10-14T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2463\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:43:16","slug":"texas-am-highest-ranked-sec-team-for-first-time-in-program-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2463\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M highest-ranked SEC team for first time in program history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">(KBTX) &#8211; The Texas A&amp;M football team moved up one position to No. 4 in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\">the latest Associated Press Top 25<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2025\/10\/12\/game-rundown-no-5-texas-am-starts-explosive-ends-defensive-win-over-florida\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2025\/10\/12\/game-rundown-no-5-texas-am-starts-explosive-ends-defensive-win-over-florida\/\">beating Florida 34-17 in Kyle Field Saturday.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Aggies (6-0, 3-0) hopped previous No. 4 Ole Miss (6-0, 3-0) who narrowly beat Washington State (3-3), 24-21, Saturday. It marks the first time since A&amp;M joined the Southeastern Conference that the Aggies are the highest-ranked team in the SEC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, previous No. 7 Indiana (6-0) moved past A&amp;M to No. 3 after taking down previous No. 3 Oregon 30-20 Saturday in Eugene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Aggies also sit at <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/coaches-poll\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/coaches-poll\">No. 4 in the USA Today Coaches Poll<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It is the 84th week the Aggies have been ranked in the top 5 all time, last coming in at No. 4 during the 2020 season. A&amp;M earned that No. 4 ranking after defeating North Carolina in the Orange Bowl to end the year. A&amp;M last earned a ranking inside the top 4 in 1995, when it held the No. 3 ranking for the first five weeks of the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the history of the AP poll, A&amp;M has been ranked No. 2 12 times and No. 1 seven. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Aggies as the highest-ranked Southeastern Conference team, the Aggies sit behind No. 1 Ohio State (6-0), No. 2 Miami (5-0) and No. 3 Indiana. They are one of five SEC schools in the top 10 this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No. 10 LSU (5-1), No. 16. Missouri and No. 21 Texas are ranked opponents remaining on the Aggies\u2019 schedule. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KBTX) &#8211; The Texas A&amp;M football team moved up one position to No. 4 in the latest Associated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3043,27,3042,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-2463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-ap-top-25","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-am","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","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=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}