{"id":453915,"date":"2026-10-02T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:46:10","slug":"why-texas-may-be-ranked-no-1-but-isnt-the-best-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453915\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Texas may be ranked No. 1 &#8211; but isn&#8217;t the best team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Pate reads a note from a Texas fan objecting to his own team being ranked first and explains the merit-based logic: the Longhorns beat Ohio State and nobody else has a win like it. Pate adds he isn&#8217;t convinced Texas is the best team in the country right now &#8211; that&#8217;s what the JP poll and point spreads are for. Subscribe to &#8220;Josh Pate&#8217;s College Football Show&#8221; on <a data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:1;pos:1;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YouTube&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg-q_MDeWQrjizr1VPLEpYg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Pate reads a note from a Texas fan objecting to his own team being ranked first and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-453915","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\/453915","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=453915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}