{"id":70826,"date":"2025-11-30T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70826\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:09:07","slug":"texas-tech-in-top-5-texas-rises-after-win-over-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70826\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech in top 5; Texas rises after win over A&#038;M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">With rivalry week in the books, teams are starting to shift focus toward their conference championship matchups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Before it plays for the Big 12 title, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\">Texas Tech<\/a> received a boost in the latest AP Top 25 rankings. The Red Raiders jumped from No. 7 to No. 5 in this week\u2019s poll after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2025\/11\/29\/texas-tech-red-raiders-west-virginia-mountaineers-takeaways-cameron-dickey-big-12-score\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2025\/11\/29\/texas-tech-red-raiders-west-virginia-mountaineers-takeaways-cameron-dickey-big-12-score\/\"> a 49-0 blowout of West Virginia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Tech was one of the teams to benefit from Texas\u2019 upset of Texas A&amp;M. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/\">The Aggies <\/a>notably dropped from No. 3 to No. 7 after their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/2025\/11\/28\/texas-am-texas-mike-elko-marcel-reed-college-football-playoff\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/2025\/11\/28\/texas-am-texas-mike-elko-marcel-reed-college-football-playoff\/\">27-17 loss to the Longhorns.<\/a> Meanwhile, Oklahoma remained in eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\">Texas<\/a> closed out the regular season on a high note, moving up to 14th in this week\u2019s rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On the topic of conference championships, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/unt-mean-green\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/unt-mean-green\/\">North Texas<\/a> sits at 20th going into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/unt-mean-green\/2025\/11\/29\/north-texas-to-face-tulane-in-american-conference-championship-game-on-friday\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/unt-mean-green\/2025\/11\/29\/north-texas-to-face-tulane-in-american-conference-championship-game-on-friday\/\">the American Conference title game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Here\u2019s a full look at this week\u2019s AP Top 25 rankings:<\/p>\n<p>AP Top 25RecordPtsPrv1. Ohio St. (61)12-0164512. Indiana (5)12-0158923. Georgia11-1150444. Oregon11-1139655. Texas Tech11-1136676. Ole Miss11-1135067. Texas A&amp;M11-1128238. Oklahoma10-2114089. Notre Dame10-21100910. Alabama10-210531011. BYU11-19821112. Miami (FL)10-28981313. Vanderbilt10-28711214. Texas9-38611615. Utah10-27391416. Virginia10-26371717. USC9-35661918. Michigan9-34411519. James Madison11-14172020. North Texas11-14022121. Tulane10-23732222. Arizona9-3257NR23. Navy9-2146NR24. Georgia Tech9-3902325. Missouri8-473NR<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Others receiving votes: Tennessee 71, Houston 57, Iowa 51, UNLV 33, New Mexico 20, South Florida 11, SMU 8, Iowa St. 4, Arizona St. 3, Louisville 3, UConn 3, North Dakota St. 3, Illinois 2, Washington 1, Pittsburgh 1, San Diego St. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With rivalry week in the books, teams are starting to shift focus toward their conference championship matchups. 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