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Once near the top of the rankings, Texas A&M<\/a> heads in the wrong direction as the postseason approaches. The formerly top-three Aggies dropped four spots to No. 7 in the latest AP Top 25 poll following their 27-17 rivalry week loss to Texas<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was the first real setback of the season for Texas A&M, which started the year 11-0 while beating up on some of the SEC’s lower-tier teams. The Aggies are now 0-1 against conference opponents that finished the regular season with a winning record in SEC play.\u00a0<\/p>\n The loss also cost Texas A&M a spot in the SEC Championship Game, which will now be contested between No. 3 Georgia<\/a> — which moved into the top three as a result of A&M’s loss — and No. 10 Alabama<\/a> for the third time since 2020. Texas, which is pushing for an at-large bid in the College Football<\/a> Playoff, continued to creep up in the AP poll from No. 16 to No. 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n Outside the SEC, Ohio State<\/a> strengthened its hold on the No. 1 spot, which it has held since beating preseason No. 1 Texas in Week 1 of the season. The Buckeyes cruised past rival Michigan<\/a> in their regular season finale to set up a monumental clash against No. 2 Indiana<\/a> in the Big Ten Championship Game.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Group of Five race is still too close to call. James Madison<\/a> is still ahead at No. 19, but the Dukes are followed closely by a pair of American Conference teams in North Texas<\/a> (20) and Tulane<\/a> (21).\u00a0<\/p>\n Week 15 AP Top 25 rankings\u00a0<\/p>\n First-place votes in parentheses<\/p>\n Ohio State (61)Indiana (5)GeorgiaOregon<\/a>Texas Tech<\/a>Ole Miss<\/a>Texas A&M\u00a0Oklahoma<\/a>\u00a0Notre Dame<\/a>\u00a0AlabamaBYU<\/a>Miami<\/a>\u00a0Vanderbilt<\/a>\u00a0Texas\u00a0Utah<\/a>Virginia<\/a>USC<\/a>MichiganJames MadisonNorth TexasTulane\u00a0Arizona<\/a>Navy<\/a>Georgia Tech<\/a>\u00a0Missouri<\/a><\/p>\n Others receiving votes:\u00a0Tennessee<\/a> 71, Houston<\/a> 57, Iowa<\/a> 51, UNLV<\/a> 33, New Mexico<\/a> 20, South Florida<\/a> 11, SMU<\/a> 8, Iowa St<\/a>. 4, Arizona St<\/a>. 3, Louisville<\/a> 3, UConn<\/a> 3, North Dakota<\/a> St. 3, Illinois<\/a> 2, Washington<\/a> 1, Pittsburgh<\/a> 1, San Diego St<\/a>. 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Once near the top of the rankings, Texas A&M heads in the wrong direction as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1603,165012,5439,4,450,156307,156308,1607,78572,85993,6341,451,3343,6815,118083,116692,118798,3,1776,96836,165013,6344,19502,19501,1784,5690,165014,452,453,8927,8390,17358],"class_list":["post-322890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-ap-poll","tag-bowl-projections","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cfb-rankings","tag-cfp-rankings","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-playoff-rankings","tag-college-football-rankings","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-headlines","tag-houston-cougars","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-james-madison-dukes","tag-ncaa-football-rankings","tag-ncaaf-rankings","tag-news","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-ohio-state-ranking","tag-oklahoma-ranking","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-ole-miss-rebels","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-ranking","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tulane-green-wave","tag-utah-utes","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}