{"id":451951,"date":"2026-09-30T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451951\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:48:09","slug":"tech-climbs-into-top-20-of-national-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451951\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech climbs into top-20 of national polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Fresh off a perfect 2-0 week that featured a top-15 win over then No. 13 Colorado, Texas Tech climbed into the top-20 in both the TopDrawerSoccer Top-25 and the IWSOC Top-25.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Raiders were ranked No. 16 in the TopDrawer Poll and No.14 in the IWSOC Coaches poll.<\/p>\n<p>After starting the week with a 2-0 win over Cincinnati, Tech defeated then ranked No. 13\/8 Colorado, 3-1 on Sunday to climb into the top-20 nationally for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>The two wins over Cincy and Colorado helped Tech extend its overall unbeaten streak to 15-straight (8-0-7) and to 15-0-5 in their last 20 matches in Texas. Tech also won its 51st overall match and 30th Big 12 match. The 30 Big 12 wins lead the league while Tech&#8217;s 51 total wins are fourth-most.<\/p>\n<p>Tech climbed 11 spots after debuting in the IWSOC Top-25 a week ago at No. 25.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Raiders return to action on Friday night (Oct. 2) against Arizona State. First touch is set for 7 p.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Fresh off a perfect 2-0 week that featured a top-15 win over then No. 13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-451951","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\/451951","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=451951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}