{"id":402947,"date":"2026-08-10T22:18:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402947\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T22:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:18:47","slug":"college-volleyball-preseason-poll-texas-ranks-no-2-behind-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402947\/","title":{"rendered":"College volleyball preseason poll: Texas ranks No. 2 behind Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/volleyball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas volleyball<\/a> will enter the 2026 season as the No. 2 team in the nation behind Nebraska, according to the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll released Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska received all but six of the 63 first-place votes, with all the others going to SEC teams. Defending conference champion Kentucky picked up four first-place votes, defending national champion Texas A&amp;M received one vote, and the Longhorns picked up one vote.<\/p>\n<p>Texas will face the top-ranked Cornhuskers Aug. 30 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving votes: Miami (FL) 124; Iowa State 104; Georgia Tech 77; UCLA 61;\u00a0Cal Poly 58; Utah 41; San Diego 34; Western Kentucky 33; Marquette 28; Northern Iowa 27; Dayton 22; Rice 14; Kansas State 10; Michigan State 10; Arizona 8; Illinois 7; Florida State 3; Villanova 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas volleyball will enter the 2026 season as the No. 2 team in the nation behind Nebraska, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2237,776,537,1074],"class_list":["post-402947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college-volleyball","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402947","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=402947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}