Weekly rankings
Where does your team stand? Updating the 12 Texas FBS college football teams after Nov. 18 games
Nov 19, 2017, 6:17 am
TCU held on to the top spot. Tom Pennington/Getty Images
Texas has 12 FBS teams. Each week we will rank them based on season-long performance, the prior game, and success relative to their level. These are the rankings after Nov. 18 games.
No. 12: UTEP
The Miners showed some signs of life on Saturday. And by that, we mean they only lost by 20.
No. 11: Rice
The Owls showed some signs of life against Old Dominion. And by that we mean they covered the spread in a 24-21 loss.
No. 10: Texas State
The Bobcats got drilled by Arkansas State and face a tougher test next week with Troy.
No. 9: Baylor
The Bears fell to Iowa State and will wrap a dismal season with a loss to TCU next week.
No. 8: UTSA
The Road Runners knocked off a solid Marshall team in a 9-7 slugfest.
No. 7: Texas Tech
No shame in losing to TCU, but the Red Raiders did not even try.
No. 6: SMU
The season is slowly spiraling out of control for the Ponies, who were blown out by Memphis.
No. 5: Houston
Tulane? You lost to Tulane? There are not enough shame bells in the world for Major Applewhite and the Cougars.
No. 4: North Texas
The Mean Green are likely headed for the C-USA championship game and are playing solid football. They survived OT against a really good Army team and moved up a few spots.
No. 3: Texas
The Longhorns are now bowl eligible after getting a nice road win at West Virginia.
No. 2: Texas A&M
The Aggies won at Mississippi to get to 7-4. Will need to upset LSU to get to yet another 8-4 finish.
No. 1: TCU
The Frogs got back on track by dominating Texas Tech.
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Oswald Peraza hit a two-run single in the ninth inning to help the Los Angeles Angels snap a three-game losing skid by beating the Houston Astros 4-1 on Saturday night.
Peraza entered the game as a defensive replacement in the seventh inning and hit a bases-loaded fly ball to deep right field that eluded the outstretched glove of Cam Smith. It was the fourth straight hit off Astros closer Bryan Abreu (3-4), who had not allowed a run in his previous 12 appearances.
The Angels third run of the ninth inning scored when Mike Trout walked with the bases loaded.
Kyle Hendricks allowed one run while scattering seven hits over six innings. He held the Astros to 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position, the one hit coming on Jesús Sánchez’s third-inning infield single that scored Jeremy Peña.
Reid Detmers worked around a leadoff walk to keep the Astros scoreless in the seventh, and José Fermin (3-2) retired the side in order in the eighth before Kenley Jansen worked a scoreless ninth to earn his 24th save.
Houston’s Spencer Arrighetti struck out a season-high eight batters over 6 1/3 innings. The only hit he allowed was Zach Neto’s third-inning solo home run.
Yordan Alvarez had two hits for the Astros, who remained three games ahead of Seattle for first place in the AL West.
Key moment
Peraza’s two-run single to deep right field that broke a 1-1 tie in the ninth.
Key Stat
Opponents were 5 for 44 against Abreu in August before he allowed four straight hits in the ninth.
Up next
Astros RHP Hunter Brown (10-6, 2.37 ERA) faces RHP José Soriano (9-9, 3.85) when the series continues Sunday.