After a 27-17 defeat to the Longhorns, then-ranked No. 3 A&M fell to No. 7 in this week’s AP Poll and US LBM Coaches Poll. It was the second-largest drop of the week (No. 18 Tennessee\u00a0fell six spots in the AP rankings and out of the coaches poll completely).<\/p>\n
Ohio State and Indiana continue to be ranked Nos. 1-2.\u00a0A&M is now the third-highest-ranked SEC team in the country.<\/p>\n
A&M still will likely make the CFP and is awaiting the announcement of it’s first-round opponent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reach Texas A&M beat reporter Tony Catalina via email at Anthony.Catalina@statesman.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a 27-17 defeat to the Longhorns, then-ranked No. 3 A&M fell to No. 7 in this week’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,9752,266,27,260,259,6992,29,28],"class_list":["post-72477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-polls","tag-sec-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-am-aggies-football","tag-texas-am-football","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72477","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=72477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}