{"id":476466,"date":"2026-10-25T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476466\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:38:18","slug":"ap-top-25-college-football-poll-texas-takes-a-leap-texas-tech-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476466\/","title":{"rendered":"AP top 25 college football poll: Texas takes a leap, Texas Tech falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Saturday&#8217;s action didn&#8217;t come close to the chaos from Week 7, Week 8 still featured several upsets that caused some big shifts in the latest Associated Press Top 25.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the amount of movement in this week&#8217;s rankings is so widespread that No. 1 Miami is the only team that remained in the same spot in the poll. Three top-10 teams went down Saturday as No. 2 BYU was upset in overtime at UCF, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 8 Texas Tech<\/a> got rolled at Cincinnati and No. 7 Ole Miss fell at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 19 Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Miami, still at No. 1, and Ohio State, which jumped up to No. 2 following BYU&#8217;s loss, collected all the first-place votes except for one. Utah, coming off a win over then-No. 14 Houston, jumped four spots to No. 6 and interestingly received a first-place vote.<\/p>\n<p>See the full top 25 rankings below, with first-place votes in parentheses.<\/p>\n<p>Others receiving votes:\u00a0Iowa 76, New Mexico 41, Cincinnati 11, Oregon State 10, South Carolina 8, Minnesota 7, USC 7, UTSA 1, Virginia Tech 1\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Saturday&#8217;s action didn&#8217;t come close to the chaos from Week 7, Week 8 still featured several upsets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-476466","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\/476466","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=476466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}