A series sweep at the hand of the now consensus No. 1-ranked Tennessee Volunteers has the Florida Gators ranked between Nos. 10 and 13 across three major polls.
The USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll dropped Florida four spots to No. 11, D1Baseball Top 25 punished the Gators the most with a six-spot fall and the Perfect Game College Top 25 was the kindest to the Orange and Blue, keeping UF inside the top 10.
Based on the movement in the polls, Florida’s midweek win over a top-5 Florida State team meant little to the voters. The Gators have five games this week, two midweek home games against Jacksonville and Florida A&M, and a three-game set at home against Georgia. The Bulldogs are a consensus top-5 program, too, so a series win should get Florida back into the top 10 across all three rankings.
SEC Teams ranked in Top 25
Tennessee is now the consensus top program in college baseball after sweeping Florida over the weekend. LSU is the consensus No. 2 team, and that’s where the experts stop agreeing on things.
Arkansas is ranked No. 3 by USA TODAY and D1 but is down at No. 7 on Perfect Game’s list. Georgia lands anywhere between No. 3 and No. 5 across all three lists, and Texas is between No. 4 and No. 6. Alabama is No. 12 on two of three lists, and gets the No. 11 spot from Perfect Game. Auburn, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt also make the top 25 across all three ranking services.
College Baseball Rankings Week 5
|
Ranking |
USA TODAY |
D1Baseball |
Perfect Game |
|
1 |
Tennessee Volunteers (–) |
Tennessee Volunteers (+1) |
Tennessee Volunteers (–) |
|
2 |
LSU Tigers (–) |
LSU Tigers (-1) |
LSU Tigers (–) |
|
3 |
Arkansas Razorbacks (–) |
Arkansas Razorbacks (–) |
Georgia Bulldogs (–) |
|
4 |
Florida State Seminoles (–) |
Georgia Bulldogs (–) |
Clemson Tigers (–) |
|
5 |
Georgia Bulldogs (–) |
Florida State Seminoles (–) |
Florida State Seminoles (–) |
|
6 |
Clemson Tigers (–) |
Oregon State Beavers (+2) |
Texas Longhorns (–) |
|
7 |
Texas Longhorns (+2) |
Clemson Tigers (+3) |
Arkansas Razorbacks (+1) |
|
8 |
Oregon State Beavers (+3) |
Texas Longhorns (+3) |
Oklahoma Sooners (+1) |
|
9 |
T-9 Oregon Ducks (+1) |
Oregon Ducks (–) |
Oregon State Beavers (+1) |
|
T-9/10 |
T-9 Oklahoma Sooners (+3) |
Oklahoma Sooners (+2) |
Florida Gators (-3) |
|
11 |
Florida Gators (-4) |
Wake Forest Demon Deacons (+3) |
Alabama Crimson Tide (+11) |
|
12 |
Alabama Crimson Tide (+4) |
Alabama Crimson Tide (+5) |
Wake Forest Demon Deacons (+6) |
|
13 |
Wake Forest Demon Deacons (–) |
Florida Gators (-6) |
West Virginia Mountaineers (–) |
|
14 |
Stanford Cardinal (+4) |
Stanford Cardinal (+4) |
Oregon Ducks (-3) |
|
15 |
North Carolina Tarheels (-7) |
Dallas Baptist Patriots (+5) |
Stanford Cardinal (+10) |
|
16 |
Auburn Tigers (+7) |
Louisville Cardinals (NR) |
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (-1) |
|
17 |
Dallas Baptist Patriots (+2) |
North Carolina Tarheels (-11) |
Dallas Baptist Patriots (–) |
|
18 |
Ole Miss Rebels (-3) |
Ole Miss Rebels (-5) |
Auburn Tigers (+6) |
|
19 |
Vanderbilt Commodores (-5) |
Southern Miss Golden Eagles (+3) |
Arizona Wildcats (–) |
|
20 |
Louisville Cardinals (+14) |
Auburn Tigers (+5) |
Vanderbilt Commodores (-6) |
|
21 |
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (-4) |
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (-6) |
Virginia Cavaliers (–) |
|
22 |
Virginia Cavaliers (-2) |
Vanderbilt Commodores (-6) |
Louisville Cardinals (NR) |
|
23 |
Southern Miss Golden Eagles (+2) |
Virginia Cavaliers (–) |
North Carolina Tarheels (-11) |
|
24 |
West Virginia Mountaineers (–) |
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (–) |
UCLA (NR) |
|
25 |
Coastal Carolina (+2) |
Troy Trojans (-4) |
UCF (NR) |
Dropped out
USA TODAY: No. 21 Texas A&M Aggies; No. 22 Troy Trojans
D1Baseball: No. 19 Texas A&M Aggies;
Perfect Game: No. 16 Texas A&M Aggies; No. 20 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos; No. 23 Ole Miss Rebels;
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