{"id":854883,"date":"2026-09-21T01:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854883\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T01:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:04:24","slug":"byu-and-utah-rise-again-in-latest-ap-top-25-poll-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854883\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU and Utah rise again in latest AP top 25 poll \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For the second straight week, BYU and Utah have climbed higher in the AP top 25 poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The No. 9-ranked Cougars have broken into the top 10 with a 41-23 win at Colorado State, and Utah\u2019s 33-0 thumping of Utah State put the Utes two spots up to No. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BYU currently stands as the highest-ranked Big 12 team, with Texas Tech (No. 11) and Houston (No. 25) also representing the conference in the poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">West Virginia, Oklahoma State, Arizona and Kansas State all appeared in the receiving votes section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Notre Dame, BYU\u2019s Oct. 17 opponent in Provo, remains at No. 3 in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cougars have their bye next week, while Utah will travel to Iowa State to open its Big 12 portion of the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second straight week, BYU and Utah have climbed higher in the AP top 25 poll. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,3125,99],"class_list":["post-854883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-news-feed-local","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854883","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=854883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}