With just a couple of weeks remaining in the college baseball regular season, the games are getting more important than ever. Teams will be locking up their seeding in the conference tournaments and looking to get a spot in the College World Series. With that said, there isn’t much movement in this week’s top 25 college baseball rankings. Most of the teams took care of business.
Be sure to catch up on the previous rankings: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10
Although Tennessee lost their series to Kentucky this weekend, they have been far and above the best team in the country this whole season. It was just their first SEC series loss of the season. The only other top 10 team that lost their series was Southern Mississippi, who drops 10 spots to 19. Miami jumps one spot to number nine after sweeping North Dakota State. Maryland moves up into the top 10 and number 10 after winning their series against Rutgers and improving to 13-5 in the Big Ten.
1. Tennessee (42-6, 20-4)
Previous Ranking: 1
2. Oregon State (38-9, 18-6)
Previous Ranking: 2
3. Virginia Tech (33-10, 14-8)
Previous Ranking: 3
4. Oklahoma State (34-13, 13-5)
Previous Ranking: 4
5. Arkansas (36-12, 16-8)
Previous Ranking: 5
6. UConn (40-8, 14-1)
Previous Ranking: 6
7. Gonzaga (29-13, 15-6)
Previous Ranking: 7
8. Stanford (29-14, 15-9)
Previous Ranking: 8
9. Miami (35-12, 17-7)
Previous Ranking: 10
10. Maryland (38-10, 13-5)
Previous Ranking: 12
The rest of the rankings has more movement than the top 10, with three teams joining the top 25 after Georgia Tech, TCU, and Georgia fall off. UC Santa Barbara joins the rankings at number 18 after winning their eighth straight conference series and improving to 21-3 in the Big West. Oklahoma finds itself at number 24 after a big road series win against TCU, with the pitching trio of Cade Horton, Carter Campbell, and Trevin Michael combining to strike out seven and holding the Horned Frogs to one run in the series clincher. Florida gets back into the rankings after pulling off a series sweep of the defending champion Mississippi State Bulldogs in Starkville. The biggest drop is UCLA from 16 to 22 after they were swept by Washington, and the biggest riser is Texas State, as the Bobcats swept their fourth road Sun Belt series over ULM.
11. Notre Dame (28-10, 13-8)
Previous Ranking: 11
12. Texas Tech (32-16, 11-7)
Previous Ranking: 13
13. Florida State (28-17, 13-11)
Previous Ranking: 14
14. LSU (32-15, 14-10)
Previous Ranking: 15
15. Texas A&M (30-16, 14-10)
Previous Ranking: 17
16. Vanderbilt (31-15, 12-12)
Previous Ranking: 18
17. Virginia (34-12, 14-10)
Previous Ranking: 19
18. UC Santa Barbara (33-11, 21-3)
Previous Ranking: NR
19. Southern Mississippi (36-12, 18-6)
Previous Ranking: 9
20. Texas State (38-11, 20-4)
Previous Ranking: 23
21. Texas (34-17, 11-10)
Previous Ranking: 21
22. UCLA (30-17, 14-10)
Previous Ranking: 16
23. Auburn (32-16, 13-11)
Previous Ranking: 22
24. Oklahoma (29-17, 11-7)
Previous Ranking: NR
25. Grand Canyon (33-16, 19-5)
Previous Ranking: NR
Falls off rankings: Georgia Tech, TCU, Georgia
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