{"id":435373,"date":"2026-09-14T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435373\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:30:15","slug":"texas-moves-to-top-of-ap-coaches-polls-following-wild-win-over-ohio-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435373\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas moves to top of AP, coaches&#8217; polls following wild win over Ohio State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio  (WSYX) \u2014 There\u2019s a new No. 1 team in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/top-25-college-football-poll-9-13-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press Top 25<\/a>, and it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise. <\/p>\n<p>Texas has now secured the top spot after a<a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/sports\/the-football-fever\/osu-ohio-state-buckeyes-texas-longhorns-college-football-austin-big-ten-b1g-sec-conference-no-1-top-ranked-darrell-k-royal-dkr-memorial-stadium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> wild win <\/a>against Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p>The loss pushed Ohio State down five places to No. 6, and gave the Longhorns their earliest No. 1 regular-season ranking since 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Texas replacing Ohio State prompted a light shuffle in the top 5: No. 2 Georgia and No. 3 Notre Dame kept their rankings, while No. 4 Indiana moved up one and No. 5 Miami climbed two spots.<\/p>\n<p>The full AP poll  is below:<\/p>\n<p>TexasGeorgiaNotre DameIndianaMiami (Fla.)Ohio StateLSUOle MissTexas A&amp;MAlabamaBYUUSCTexas TechPenn StateTennesseeSMUUtahIowaMichiganMissouriOregonHoustonLouisvilleOklahomaVirginia<\/p>\n<p>Texas also grabbed the top spot in the Coaches&#8217; poll. Those rankings are below:<\/p>\n<p>TexasGeorgia Notre Dame IndianaMiamiOhio StateLSUTexas A&amp;MOle MissAlabama USCTexas Tech BYUTennesseePenn State SMU UtahOregon Michigan IowaOklahoma MissouriHoustonWashingtonVirginia<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State returns home Saturday to play Kent State at noon at Ohio Stadium. That game will be shown on FOX 28. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 There\u2019s a new No. 1 team in the Associated Press Top 25, and it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-435373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435373","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=435373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}