{"id":32570,"date":"2025-11-03T01:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32570\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T01:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:48:18","slug":"texas-makes-big-jumps-in-both-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32570\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas makes big jumps in both polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the first time since Week 6, the Texas Longhorns are a top-15 team in the AP Top 25 after Saturday\u2019s 34-31 victory over the then-No. 9 Vanderbilt Commodores at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Head coach Steve Sarkisian\u2019s team, now 7-2 on the season, moved from No. 20 to No. 13 in Sunday\u2019s poll, taking advantage of a number of losses, including Georgia Tech, Miami, Tennessee, and Cincinnati. It\u2019s a climb back to respectability enabled by four straight wins after the ignominious fall from preseason No. 1 to out of the top 25 after the 29-21 loss to Florida in Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the Coaches Poll, the Longhorns moved from No. 19 to No. 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the bye week, Texas travels to Athens to face Georgia, which is No. 5 in both polls after surviving Florida in Gainesville, 24-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since Week 6, the Texas Longhorns are a top-15 team in the AP Top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-32570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-longhorns-football","11":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32570","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=32570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}