{"id":512,"date":"2025-10-13T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/512\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:02:16","slug":"texas-tech-now-at-no-7-in-new-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/512\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech now at No. 7 in new AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After Saturday night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/10\/12\/homecoming-rushing-king-dickey-leads-texas-tech-offense-42-17-win-over-kansas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/10\/12\/homecoming-rushing-king-dickey-leads-texas-tech-offense-42-17-win-over-kansas\/\">42-17 homecoming win over the Kansas Jayhawks<\/a>, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (6-0) have moved up to No. 7 in the Associated Press poll, two spots higher than the previous week. Tech is also ranked No. 8 in the US LBM Coaches Poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ahead of the Red Raiders are: 1. Ohio State (6-0), 2. Miami (5-0), 3. Indiana (6-0), 4. Texas A&amp;M (6-0), 5. Ole Miss (6-0), and 6. Alabama (5-1). Oklahoma and Oregon dropped in the polls after suffering their first loss of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Big 12 schools include: 15. BYU (6-0), 23. Utah (5-1), and 24. Cincinnati (5-1). <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Texas Tech Athletics:<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech is one of only 11 unbeaten teams in the country, and is the only school to win each game by 20+ points. Texas Tech is the only FBS school that has not trailed yet all season.Texas Tech is 6-0 overall for the first time since 2013, seventh time in program history.The Red Raiders have won by an average of 35.3 points per game thus far. Texas Tech set a school record with nine sacks in the win over the Jayhawks, breaking a record set in 1993 at SMU.The Red Raiders gained 372 yards on the ground, 263 came from sophomore Cameron DickeyTech\u2019s defense has allowed only 12.2 points per game this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Up next for the No. 7 Red Raiders is a showdown in Tempe, Ariz. with the defending Big 12 champions Arizona State (4-2). Kickoff set for 3 p.m. CT, and will air on FOX34.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After Saturday night\u2019s 42-17 homecoming win over the Kansas Jayhawks, the Texas Tech Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[875,261,755,168,170,169,874,415,873],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-coaches-poll","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-rankings","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech-football","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}