{"id":463339,"date":"2026-10-12T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463339\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:40:12","slug":"texas-drops-in-both-polls-after-loss-to-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463339\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas drops in both polls after loss to Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In the wake of Saturday\u2019s last-second 27-24 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners, the Texas Longhorns dropped from the No. 1 ranking in the AP Top 25 and the Coaches Poll on Sunday, falling to No. 7 in the AP and No. 6 in the Coaches Poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The four weeks in the AP\u2019s top spot was the longest for the Longhorns since 1977 and came to an ignominious end after losing in the Cotton Bowl as a significant favorite over the Sooners, who entered the weekend with two losses that put multiple coaches under fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Georgia is the new No. 1 in both polls after going to Tuscaloosa and beating then-No. 6 Alabama 20-17. The Tide remained at No. 6 in the AP and No. 7 in the Coaches Poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Next week\u2019s opponent, Florida, fell out the Coaches Poll after a second straight loss, a surprising 38-19 defeat by South Carolina in Gainesville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of Saturday\u2019s last-second 27-24 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners, the Texas Longhorns dropped from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":["post-463339","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\/463339","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=463339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}