{"id":416076,"date":"2026-08-25T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416076\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:34:44","slug":"lubbock-area-high-school-football-2026-preseason-power-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416076\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock-area high school football 2026 preseason power rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 24, 2026, 4:01 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The first games of the 2026 Texas high school football season kick off Thursday. With that comes the first set of power rankings for the Lubbock area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Teams are judged on a pound-for-pound basis. These rankings will be updated every week through the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>LUBBOCK-AREA FOOTBALL PRESEASON RANKINGS1. Ropes<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">2025 record, final ranking:\u00a011-2, No. 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This week:\u00a0Open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 24, 2026, 4:01 a.m. CT The first games of the 2026 Texas high school football season kick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[690,168,170,169,103686,175,176,44,177,3530,184,3054,46,36],"class_list":["post-416076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-accesspremium","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-sourcelubbock-avalanche-journal","tag-sstssportshigh-school","tag-sstsnhigh-school","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-taghigh-school-sports","tag-taglubbock","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416076","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=416076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}