{"id":463161,"date":"2026-10-11T18:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T18:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463161\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T18:32:23","slug":"ap-top-25-college-football-poll-texas-cedes-top-spot-tech-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463161\/","title":{"rendered":"AP top 25 college football poll: Texas cedes top spot; Tech climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP top 25 poll has experienced a shakeup at No. 1. That shouldn&#8217;t be surprising to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> fans.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns fell out of the top spot after their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/article\/texas-oklahoma-red-river-five-thoughts-22470566.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shocking 27-24 loss to Oklahoma <\/a>in the Red River Rivalry. Georgia has taken over as the poll&#8217;s leader after it held off Alabama by a 20-17 score in front of a tough Tuscaloosa crowd.<\/p>\n<p>That move also meant a slight jump for teams in the top 5. After Georgia, Notre Dame comes in at No. 2. Miami (FL), Ohio State and Indiana round out the top five spots.<\/p>\n<p>See the full top 25 below. First-place votes are in parentheses.<\/p>\n<p>Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 92, Oregon 86, Arizona 82, Nebraska 65, Oklahoma 44, James Madison 29, Florida 9, Duke 5, New Mexico 3, Oregon State 1<\/p>\n<p>1. Georgia<br \/>2. Notre Dame<br \/>3. Miami<br \/>4. Ohio State<br \/>5. Indiana<br \/>6. Texas<br \/>7. Alabama<br \/>8. BYU<br \/>9. Ole Miss<br \/>10. Texas Tech<br \/>11. Utah<br \/>12. UCLA<br \/>13. Missouri<br \/>14. Kentucky<br \/>15. Iowa<br \/>16. Tennessee<br \/>17. Mississippi State<br \/>18. USC<br \/>19. Oklahoma State<br \/>20. Wake Forest<br \/>21. LSU<br \/>22. Houston\u00a0<br \/>23. Northwestern<br \/>24. Boise State<br \/>25. SMU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AP top 25 poll has experienced a shakeup at No. 1. That shouldn&#8217;t be surprising to Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,27,29,28,156465,99583,88146,89414,88145,113168],"class_list":["post-463161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-article","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-oklahoma-sooners","tag-tp-smu-mustangs","tag-tp-texas-longhorns","tag-tp-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tp-colleges","tag-tp-oklahoma-state-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463161","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=463161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}