{"id":44651,"date":"2025-11-11T08:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44651\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:41:26","slug":"texas-returns-to-top-10-acc-has-5-teams-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44651\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas returns to top 10, ACC has 5 teams ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas returned to the top 10 of\u00a0The Associated Press college football poll<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, the Atlantic Coast Conference has five teams ranked for the first time this season and two Group of Five conferences are now represented in the Top 25 a month before the playoff bracket is set. The top five was unchanged.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns, the preseason No. 1 team, are ranked No. 10 in advance of its visit to No. 5 Georgia this week. They had been in the top 10 for the first six polls before their loss at Florida knocked them out of the Top 25 for a week.<\/p>\n

Four straight wins elevated them to No. 13 last week, and they jumped three spots ahead of BYU and Virginia and an idle Oklahoma, which they beat 23-6 on Oct. 11. Texas did not play over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Ohio State was No. 1 for the 11th week in a row with 55 first-place votes. Indiana remained No. 2 after its\u00a0narrow escape at Penn State<\/a>, but the Hoosiers\u2019 six first-place votes were five fewer than last week.<\/p>\n

No. 3 Texas A&M got four first-place votes, three more than a week ago, and was 31 points behind Indiana. Alabama and Georgia rounded out the top five. Mississippi, Oregon, Texas Tech, Notre Dame and Texas rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n

In all,\u00a019 spots in the Top 25<\/a>\u00a0have new teams.<\/p>\n

The ACC has five teams with one loss in conference play and two others with two losses. That’s reflected in the closely bunched group of ACC teams in the poll \u2014 No. 14 Georgia Tech, No. 16 Miami, No. 19 Louisville, No. 20 Virginia and No. 23 Pittsburgh. The last time the ACC had as many ranked teams was Nov. 3, 2024.<\/p>\n

The race for the Group of Five’s automatic bid in the College Football Playoff got more interesting with\u00a0Memphis’ loss to Tulane<\/a>\u00a0on Friday. The CFP committee did not have a G5 team in its top 25 but said Memphis was first in line. That will almost certainly change when the committee’s next rankings come out Tuesday.<\/p>\n

No. 24 James Madison of the Sun Belt Conference made its first AP poll appearance since 2023. The Dukes are 8-1, their only loss to Louisville, and are the highest-ranked G5 team. No. 25 South Florida of the American Conference is right behind, and Tulane of the American received the most votes among the unranked.<\/p>\n

In and out<\/p>\n

\u2014 No. 23 Pittsburgh, No. 24 in the initial CFP rankings, is in the AP poll for the first time since last November.<\/p>\n

\u2014 No. 24 James Madison’s previous Top 25 appearance was in 2023, when Curt Cignetti’s last Dukes team was in the final seven regular-season polls.<\/p>\n

\u2014 No. 25 South Florida’s 32-point win over USTA helped Bulls to return after a two-week absence.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Missouri (19), Memphis (22) and Washington (24) dropped out.<\/p>\n

Poll points<\/p>\n

\u2014 The last time there were teams from two G5 conferences ranked at the same time was last year, when Boise State and UNLV of the Mountain West and Army and Memphis of the American were in the final two polls of the season.<\/p>\n

\u2014 BYU, which was unbeaten before its\u00a029-7 loss at Texas Tech<\/a>, dropped four spots to No. 12 to end its two-week stay in the top 10.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Virginia and James Madison give the commonwealth two ranked teams for the first time since the final 2023 regular-season poll (Liberty, James Madison).<\/p>\n

Conference call<\/p>\n

SEC (8): Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 21.<\/p>\n

ACC (5): Nos. 14, 16, 19, 20, 23.<\/p>\n

Big Ten (5): Nos. 1, 2, 7, 17, 18.<\/p>\n

Big 12 (4): Nos. 8, 12, 15, 22.<\/p>\n

Independent (1): No. 9.<\/p>\n

Sun Belt (1): No. 24.<\/p>\n

American (1): No. 25.<\/p>\n

Ranked vs. ranked<\/p>\n

No. 10 Texas (7-2, 4-1 SEC, No. 11 CFP) at No. 5 Georgia (8-1, 6-1, No. 5 CFP): Bulldogs won regular-season meeting and SEC championship game against Longhorns last year. This is a top-10 matchup for the third straight time.<\/p>\n

No. 9 Notre Dame (6-2, No. 10 CFP) at No. 23 Pittsburgh (7-2, No. 24 CFP): Huge playoff implications for both. Irish and Panthers both ranked at time of their meeting for first time since 1991.<\/p>\n

No. 11 Oklahoma (7-2, 3-2, No. 12 CFP) at No. 4 Alabama (8-1, 6-0, No. 4 CFP): Last year’s embarrassing loss in Norman killed the Crimson Tide’s playoff hopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas returned to the top 10 of\u00a0The Associated Press college football poll\u00a0on Sunday, the Atlantic Coast Conference has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[26149,2901,20301,555,557,132,134,133,26150,102,223,82,154,27,19634],"class_list":["post-44651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-college-sports","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-c-block-national","tag-dallas","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-ut-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44651","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=44651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}