{"id":249390,"date":"2026-04-14T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249390\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:48:07","slug":"texas-longhorns-drops-after-losing-series-to-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249390\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Longhorns drops after losing series to Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dropping a second straight SEC series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/softball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas softball<\/a> fell one spot to No. 5 in the national rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Texas (33-6, 10-5 SEC) dropped behind Florida as well as other SEC rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/softball\/article\/texas-longhorns-softball-score-today-alabama-22159429.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama<\/a> after 648 total points.<\/p>\n<p>The latest rankings reflect the SEC\u2019s continuing dominance. Six of the top 10 teams come from the conference, and 10 SEC teams earned a spot in the poll. Texas A&amp;M moved up two spots to No. 12.<\/p>\n<p>After losing the series to Oklahoma,\u00a0Texas travels to No. 15 Georgia for a critical three-game series beginning Saturday in Athens, Ga.<\/p>\n<p>Southeastern Louisiana (22), Belmont (15), Louisville (11), Kansas (6), North Carolina (2), South Carolina (2), Omaha (1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After dropping a second straight SEC series, Texas softball fell one spot to No. 5 in the national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46014,772,27,64131,29,537,28703,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-249390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-college-softball","9":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-a-m-aggies-softball","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-longhorns","14":"tag-texas-longhorns-softball","15":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249390","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=249390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}