{"id":449685,"date":"2026-09-27T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449685\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:54:08","slug":"texas-remains-no-1-in-both-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449685\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas remains No. 1 in both polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 20-17 victory over the then-No. 14 Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville on Saturday was enough for the Texas Longhorns to maintain the top position in both major polls on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s now the third straight week the Longhorns have been No. 1 in the Coaches Poll and the AP Poll as head coach Steve Sarkisian\u2019s team heads into the team\u2019s only bye week of the season before heading to Dallas to take on the Sooners in the Cotton Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The harrowing finish for Texas at Neyland Stadium cost the Horns a first-place vote in the Coaches Poll, but the writers were more forgiving with four first-place votes gained over the No. 2 Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tennessee dropped four spots to No. 17 in the Coaches Poll and three spots to No. 17 in the AP Poll this week after the Vols suffered their first loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The notable SEC riser is Florida, which skyrocketed 14 spots in the Coaches Poll and 13 spots in the AP Poll to No. 8 nationally in the wake of Saturday\u2019s convincing 52-28 win over Ole Miss, formerly a top-10 team in both polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Meanwhile, the Aggies dropped out of both polls after suffering back-to-back losses with the latest, Saturday\u2019s 36-6 blowout by LSU, sending the Texas A&amp;M program into a true tailspin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 20-17 victory over the then-No. 14 Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville on Saturday was enough for the Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":["post-449685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449685","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=449685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}