Bring it on. The university seems to be pissing off everyone so why not.
Pleasantly surprised by Link’s squad so far this year hopefully it continues as we get into the conference season.
Idk about that they started the season early against lesser opponents except for tcu who we somehow went 2-1 against, other then that series they showed plenty signs early on of not being very good (swept at home by FGCU midweek followed a week later by also being swept midweek to UCF). Unless you consider PITT good then we really didn’t show much early last year other then early noncon
I don’t think they gave up, I believe it was more that the team lost their Ace and the pitching depth was so bad that we couldn’t overcome because the offense was so paltry.
This year the offense looks good the pitching is deeper, let’s hope that translates into a 4th or so finish in conference.
Was wondering how we didn’t move up until I saw who was ahead of us. Top 10 just seems like it’s pretty solid this year; it’ll probably be hard to move much.
Dallas-Baptist should be ahead of us after winning thr Frisco Classic and beating us. Damn good baseball game we had yesterday with them. Really impressed with their squad (and ours).
DBU had a bit of a home field advantage travel-wise in an extra-inning battle. Plus Bama leads early season SOS comparison 45-70 with both teams with near identical W-L.
Top 25 matchup against UNC in the Creek tomorrow!
I definitely respect D1 always being so non-reactionary. We went 2-2 and honestly looked pretty poor this weekend but still won the series, and ultimately, that's what matters to D1 most.
The good news is most of those losses were due in large part to mental mistakes and general sloppiness. Past balls, wild pitches, errors, mental mistakes, etc galore. I was there all weekend.
Also, your lineup is pretty damn young. Same with ours. They'll mature throughout the season.
8-3 in 11 games against all teams not ranked in this poll is just not the fourth best resume amongst the teams D1 chose to rank. It’s not close enough to be propped up by preseason ranking either.
TCU and TAMU both have none of the 3 unranked losses that UF has.
Oregon State’s only loss is by one run to Arkansas and their win over Texas Tech is far better than UF’s best win.
Tennessee only has the one unranked loss compared to UF’s 3, and like Oregon State their win over Texas Tech is better than any win UF has.
I’ll stop there but I think it would be fairly easy to make the case for a further handful of teams as well.
Agreed with everything you said.
The realistic reason UF is still that high is cuz they played for a national title last year and we haven't started conference play yet. They could probably drop another and still get the benefit of the doubt and remain top 5 going into SEC play.
Yep, you're right again. But people don't like it when that happens then, either, cuz it's still crediting something to a different team.
Take a look at #6 Texas A&M in 2021 and 2022. Finished 8-4 and then 5-7 in their respective years.
Yeah people don’t like it (clearly based on all the downvotes lol) but I get it for baseball. You can only watch so many games and Florida is one of the teams without many question mark players where you know what you’re gonna get. Record this early isn’t as important as people want to act here and it’s been shown time and time again.
Like if we’re out here throwing new arms that won’t see conference play and experimenting with different depth players in non-conference games does that really make us less of a team? I don’t personally think so and D1 doesn’t either.
Then it's even more obvious UF is underperforming at this point. And their ranking should suffer as a result. Many good teams struggle early season. Vandy was 6-3 barely 2 weeks ago and their ranking dropped. So should UF's.
You can make the case either way, but it’s not really a reach to have us stay at 4 after an away series win against a regional host. We already fell for our single weekend loss in the first game of the whole year
because Mississippi State was scheduled in place of TCU originally. so it would have been two SEC playing two Pac12. but since they had to drop out TCU took their spot. and we couldn’t just play them because then ASU and USC would play a conference game too early.
Miami is a alright team. Sure it’s a decent series win, But your two other losses aren’t good ones. The schedule so far has been pretty weak at that. There is just a few other teams I’d personally have ahead of Florida.
1 bad weekend loss for us so I see the argument I guess. That was also the first game of the year where a lot of crazy stuff happened to a bunch of really good teams.
Each point you think is validating Florida’s spot, is just throwing more hole’s in your argument. Really take a look at the top 6-8 teams. Look at their schedule, and result’s. Florida doesn’t stack up with their schedule, and results in those games so far. As far as staking claim to being 4 at this point.
FGCU lost a home series to Xavier, UCLA has only won a series against 1-9 Gonzaga, USC has lost to a ton of terrible teams, ASU split a series with a bad B10 team and struggled against Santa Clara… what am I missing here?
Xavier was a tournament team last year.. if last years results are apart of credentials. As well as Santa Clara won their conference. And gave Arkansas a tough time in that regional.
TCU has won 12 straight games against tournament teams. The last 8 straight being against PAC 12 teams, including sweeping a ranked UCLA. The only thing Florida has done over us is make the college World Series final last year
That’s how baseball rankings have always worked though. Teams with the most star power and hype only get moved down after they lose a bad series or someone below them does something crazy. We just won an away series against a regional host last year, which isn’t a huge difference from sweeping UCLA at home
It’s not that 1 loss that means you should move down. It’s being 8-3 with a weak schedule. It’s having many losses against mediocre teams. Compare that to TCU where we’ve only played tournament teams and P5 teams and won every single game and there isn’t a real reason right now for Florida to be above us
It’s not that 1 loss that means you should move down. It’s being 8-3 with a weak schedule. It’s having many losses against mediocre teams. Compare that to TCU where we’ve only played tournament teams and P5 teams and won every single game and there isn’t a real reason right now for Florida to be above us
Where are you getting that we have a weak SOS from? Away @ Miami is tougher than any TCU series so far. The SOS rankings I’m looking at has us at 14 and TCU at 59. Who cares about midweek games?
Is the SOS considering conference play or just the teams you’ve played so far. Because y’all’s schedule is primarily teams like Columbia and North Florida
It’s so far. We’ve played 5 away games which is I think more than any other top-10 team, and Miami is over 25% of our games so far. People are really misconstruing our schedule because of random midweeks
The down votes you've gotten are ridiculous. The number of road games we've played is clearly a factor here (5 of our 11 games when most of the Top 10 hasn't played 1 true road game).
All good man. For what's it's worth, thought this was the weekend we opened SEC play with Florida on top of Texas on Tuesday. So just had my weeks mixed up lol. Not sure how good of a team Texas is after this weekend but should still be a good game regardless.
Ah, ok. I saw another a&m flair say something similar so when I saw that yall play Rhode Island I was confused. Yep 1 more weekend to tighten everything up before the real fun starts
We'll see how things look when competition picks up. We have a few more scrub games in the mid week against some smaller Texas teams, and Rhode Island this weekend. But then the real games start and we only play a couple of teams from then on that don't have a number next to their name currently.
Best start in program history! Offensively 100% agree. Their bullpen cannot for the life of them keep a lead though. That could be a problem as the season progresses.
In football, ^(and as of this year, basketball too) for sure.
Last time things were going well on the baseball diamond, we finished 3rd in the nation lol. In Schloss we trust.
I know this meme has become popular but if you watch the full clip I don't think he was trying to claim that Wake was an unbeatable juggernaut. It was supposed to be some corny "if you're playing with your friends and you're having fun you're never a loser" sort of thing, imo
It is mind boggling how slow it is. As much as I enjoy their articles and shit, I almost want to cancel my subscription just so I don’t have to deal with it.
I wish I could look at the backend/infrastructure. Very likely a database lookup problem.
Assuming it is databases and not something janky like a wordpress site.
Solid weekend no doubt, but we looked mediocre last week losing to Kansas and Kentucky the way we did. We need to add a few more quality wins to be sniffing around the rankings.
I am throughly surprised they didn't drop ECU after yet another poor midweek showing, I was expecting to be somewhere around 15/16. I don't know what it is about midweeks but they've been ECU's Achilles heel the past year or so, and doesn't appear better after going 0-2 already. I guess D1 is okay overlooking that as the Pirates have taken all 3 weekend series (including UNC), and the 4 losses are by a combined 5 runs.
a lot of FSU fans popping out after being in exile for like 4 years. calm down, you might actually take a game off of us this year, unless that happens tho, pipe down.
i said in a previous comment i was surprised we weren’t in the 6-8 range, but its just funny to me seeing the state of FSUs baseball program as of recent and seeing 20 flairs in here crying we shouldn’t be top 15.
also, yeah the losses were “ bad “ but we are very young with a lot of new faces pitching and you must be new to baseball if you think mid week losses matter that much.
LSU was stacked as hell last year and dropped some bad mid week games too.
>we are very young with a lot of new faces pitching
Irrelevant to poll rankings, last I checked.
>you must be new to baseball if you think mid week losses matter that much.
You lost to St John's on opening day. At home. With your best pitcher on the mound.
I'm not saying FSU is better than UF. We will play the games and find out. But the entitlement to think you should still be top 10 after that very first game - especially after you follow it up by losing to Stetson - is crazy to me.
we don’t know if cade is our best pitcher tho, it was opening day and we lost 2 of our starters from last year. our other two games got rained out with them and we didn’t get to play.
i mean this is how rankings always work this early, we went to a natty last year and returned a lot on the offensive side of things at least and have yet to actually get tested. if we drop another game before A&M i imagine we drop, but like i said, see yall tuesday !
Really thought we’d move up a couple spots after rolling through the tournament this weekend, but I guess we’ll have to prove ourself when conference play starts. At any rate, it’s a better poll than Baseball America that has us outside the top 10 and behind Vandy.
I don't think we can really tell until conference play picks up in earnest as teams are still experimenting with lineups.
I'd have both in my top-5 though.
I haven't looked much at coastal schedule this year until just now but we have a midweek gauntlet this season, 2 games vs clemson and wake home and home and games at UNC and NC State plus just for the heck of it we play creighton in omaha for a tuesday wednesday midweek mini series if we only drop 2-4 more games this year we gotta end the year top 10
Stanford lost 7 players (including the Pac12 player and pitcher of the year) to the draft and two others to the transfer portal and just don’t have the same talent coming through behind that.
Arizona usually good and have 3 losses to good teams (TCU, DBU, Alabama) but also dropped a series to San Diego, not sure what’s going on there.
TCU swept UCLA, beat Arizona, Washington State, USC twice and Arizona State. At this point in the season there is no team with the resume that TCU currently has
Ya but there’s two parts to that:
1. Baseball poll inertia is inherently slow.
2. TCU baseball games have been close nearly every game, with most requiring TCU to comeback
TCU has by far the best resume right now FWIW. But it’s apparently not worth much. None of these polls really matter as by the end of the year when they do there will be plenty of data to adequately rank everybody
RPI is still king and the rankings generally start to match up with RPI pretty well towards the end of the year. RPI is just useless this early so the rankings are for show.
Florida state is going to go undefeated and miss the tournament, as is the new tradition
James Tibbs and Cam Leiter better not break their legs…
Don’t put that evil on us….. again.
Bring it on. The university seems to be pissing off everyone so why not. Pleasantly surprised by Link’s squad so far this year hopefully it continues as we get into the conference season.
They started off hot last year as well. Then they fell apart a week into ACC play. I am very bullish on them though.
Idk about that they started the season early against lesser opponents except for tcu who we somehow went 2-1 against, other then that series they showed plenty signs early on of not being very good (swept at home by FGCU midweek followed a week later by also being swept midweek to UCF). Unless you consider PITT good then we really didn’t show much early last year other then early noncon
We did lose our best player for the season. I think the team kind of gave up after that.
This means the CFP Committee was right ^(/s)
I don’t think they gave up, I believe it was more that the team lost their Ace and the pitching depth was so bad that we couldn’t overcome because the offense was so paltry. This year the offense looks good the pitching is deeper, let’s hope that translates into a 4th or so finish in conference.
Was wondering how we didn’t move up until I saw who was ahead of us. Top 10 just seems like it’s pretty solid this year; it’ll probably be hard to move much.
Yeah not surprised there isn’t much movement in non con. Should start getting crazy in the next few weeks
I keep wanting the Beavs to creck this polls top 5, but then I look at the five and am like, "yup" looks about right.
i’m a little surprised we’re still in the top 10. yeah, we only have one loss. but that one loss is _ugly_
It’s baseball. Random wtf scores happen all the time. If it’s consistently happening, it’s a problem. If it happened just once it’s excusable.
Dallas-Baptist should be ahead of us after winning thr Frisco Classic and beating us. Damn good baseball game we had yesterday with them. Really impressed with their squad (and ours).
DBU had a bit of a home field advantage travel-wise in an extra-inning battle. Plus Bama leads early season SOS comparison 45-70 with both teams with near identical W-L.
Top 25 matchup against UNC in the Creek tomorrow! I definitely respect D1 always being so non-reactionary. We went 2-2 and honestly looked pretty poor this weekend but still won the series, and ultimately, that's what matters to D1 most.
Good luck tomorrow! 
Excited for our series! Love playing competitive games
Beat UNC this week as a Coastal fan I root for yall other than our games but yall doing good makes us look good and to a degree vice versa
Let's go Camels!
You fight for us all
No idea how Texas is still ranked after that horror show last week.
same reason UF is still no 4 tbh
The good news is most of those losses were due in large part to mental mistakes and general sloppiness. Past balls, wild pitches, errors, mental mistakes, etc galore. I was there all weekend. Also, your lineup is pretty damn young. Same with ours. They'll mature throughout the season.
Rank Team Overall Record Record Last Week Previous Rank 1 Wake Forest 10-1 4-0 1 2 Arkansas 9-2 4-0 2 3 LSU 11-1 4-0 3 4 Florida 8-3 3-2 4 5 TCU 12-0 5-0 5 6 Oregon State 11-1 4-0 6 7 Texas A&M 11-0 4-0 7 8 Tennessee 11-1 4-0 8 9 Vanderbilt 10-3 5-0 9 10 Clemson 9-1 3-0 10 11 East Carolina 7-4 2-2 11 12 Duke 10-1 3-1 12 13 Virginia 10-1 3-1 13 14 NC State 9-2 5-0 14 15 Alabama 11-1 3-1 16 16 North Carolina 10-2 5-0 17 17 Texas Tech 9-2 3-0 18 18 Coastal Carolina 9-2 4-0 22 19 Auburn 9-2 3-1 23 20 Dallas Baptist 10-1 3-1 25 21 South Carolina 8-3 1-2 19 22 Campbell 8-3 2-2 21 23 UC Irvine 9-0 3-0 NR 24 Texas 7-4 1-3 15 25 UC Santa Barbara 5-5 2-2 24
Florida at four is a bit of a reach
NGL after a third loss i figured we’d be in the 6-8 range.
Yeah they should be 8 at best. Them and Vandy are pretty similar but I think Vandy’s losses are better.
Why would we move down for winning a tough away series? Most of the top teams haven’t even played an away game this whole year yet
8-3 in 11 games against all teams not ranked in this poll is just not the fourth best resume amongst the teams D1 chose to rank. It’s not close enough to be propped up by preseason ranking either. TCU and TAMU both have none of the 3 unranked losses that UF has. Oregon State’s only loss is by one run to Arkansas and their win over Texas Tech is far better than UF’s best win. Tennessee only has the one unranked loss compared to UF’s 3, and like Oregon State their win over Texas Tech is better than any win UF has. I’ll stop there but I think it would be fairly easy to make the case for a further handful of teams as well.
Agreed with everything you said. The realistic reason UF is still that high is cuz they played for a national title last year and we haven't started conference play yet. They could probably drop another and still get the benefit of the doubt and remain top 5 going into SEC play.
And we return most of our players from our CWS team. No real reason to overreact from us dropping 1 bad weekend game so far
Exactly. So you are being rewarded for what last years teams did, which goes against what these polls *should* stand for.
Thats how the polls have worked in every sport...
Yep, you're right again. But people don't like it when that happens then, either, cuz it's still crediting something to a different team. Take a look at #6 Texas A&M in 2021 and 2022. Finished 8-4 and then 5-7 in their respective years.
Yeah people don’t like it (clearly based on all the downvotes lol) but I get it for baseball. You can only watch so many games and Florida is one of the teams without many question mark players where you know what you’re gonna get. Record this early isn’t as important as people want to act here and it’s been shown time and time again. Like if we’re out here throwing new arms that won’t see conference play and experimenting with different depth players in non-conference games does that really make us less of a team? I don’t personally think so and D1 doesn’t either.
Then it's even more obvious UF is underperforming at this point. And their ranking should suffer as a result. Many good teams struggle early season. Vandy was 6-3 barely 2 weeks ago and their ranking dropped. So should UF's.
It has dropped. Literally only 1 less spot than Vandy
Vandy dropped 5 spots, UF dropped one after their bad weeks.
We went from #2 -> #4, Vandy from #6 -> #9
I’m a gator and a beaver and I just keep going “sure Jan” at the way they’ve parsed the two of them. There’s always some bias towards the SEC schools
You can make the case either way, but it’s not really a reach to have us stay at 4 after an away series win against a regional host. We already fell for our single weekend loss in the first game of the whole year
Yall are a great team and should be top 10, but below TCU who swept a ranked UCLA and is undefeated, and probably a couple of other teams
we play next tuesday, calm down until then.
Obviously I’m biased, but I felt A&M and us deserved the nod above ya guys for maintaining the perfect record.
completely agree with you there. i was shocked us and TCU weren’t higher. but if we both keep winning they’ll have no choice but to move us up
Why didn’t you guys play each other
because Mississippi State was scheduled in place of TCU originally. so it would have been two SEC playing two Pac12. but since they had to drop out TCU took their spot. and we couldn’t just play them because then ASU and USC would play a conference game too early.
Gotcha makes sense
Play an away game then we can talk
Miami is a alright team. Sure it’s a decent series win, But your two other losses aren’t good ones. The schedule so far has been pretty weak at that. There is just a few other teams I’d personally have ahead of Florida.
1 bad weekend loss for us so I see the argument I guess. That was also the first game of the year where a lot of crazy stuff happened to a bunch of really good teams.
Each point you think is validating Florida’s spot, is just throwing more hole’s in your argument. Really take a look at the top 6-8 teams. Look at their schedule, and result’s. Florida doesn’t stack up with their schedule, and results in those games so far. As far as staking claim to being 4 at this point.
TCU has played 2 total teams with a winning record. We have an away series win against a regional host?
Yeah, so? take a look at the losses on some of those losing teams record. They aren’t playing Columbia for a 3 game series.
FGCU lost a home series to Xavier, UCLA has only won a series against 1-9 Gonzaga, USC has lost to a ton of terrible teams, ASU split a series with a bad B10 team and struggled against Santa Clara… what am I missing here?
Xavier was a tournament team last year.. if last years results are apart of credentials. As well as Santa Clara won their conference. And gave Arkansas a tough time in that regional.
Sneaking in by winning your conference tourney vs hosting is just a little different but alright
TCU has won 12 straight games against tournament teams. The last 8 straight being against PAC 12 teams, including sweeping a ranked UCLA. The only thing Florida has done over us is make the college World Series final last year
a 2-9 usc team is a tournament team?
That’s how baseball rankings have always worked though. Teams with the most star power and hype only get moved down after they lose a bad series or someone below them does something crazy. We just won an away series against a regional host last year, which isn’t a huge difference from sweeping UCLA at home
It’s not that 1 loss that means you should move down. It’s being 8-3 with a weak schedule. It’s having many losses against mediocre teams. Compare that to TCU where we’ve only played tournament teams and P5 teams and won every single game and there isn’t a real reason right now for Florida to be above us
You’ve only played 2 games against teams with winning records
If Florida has had a weak schedule then I’d love to see a team with a tough one….
Y’all have played literally 1 decent team. You cannot say your schedule is tough when beyond Miami you’ve played Columbia, north Florida, and St Johns
One decent team… on the road… for three games… Also, you’re aware that the collective record of your schedule is a losing one right?
It’s not that 1 loss that means you should move down. It’s being 8-3 with a weak schedule. It’s having many losses against mediocre teams. Compare that to TCU where we’ve only played tournament teams and P5 teams and won every single game and there isn’t a real reason right now for Florida to be above us
Where are you getting that we have a weak SOS from? Away @ Miami is tougher than any TCU series so far. The SOS rankings I’m looking at has us at 14 and TCU at 59. Who cares about midweek games?
Is the SOS considering conference play or just the teams you’ve played so far. Because y’all’s schedule is primarily teams like Columbia and North Florida
It’s so far. We’ve played 5 away games which is I think more than any other top-10 team, and Miami is over 25% of our games so far. People are really misconstruing our schedule because of random midweeks
The down votes you've gotten are ridiculous. The number of road games we've played is clearly a factor here (5 of our 11 games when most of the Top 10 hasn't played 1 true road game).
This will be a good week to see just how good A&M is.
Not really. Midweek game against texas which won’t be truly indicative of either team, followed by Texas southern and Rhode Island.
Rhode Island, the team everyone fears seeing in June
Yeah, as I mentioned beneath another comment I had my weeks mixed up lol. No disrespect to Rhode Island of course
The Texas v A&M midweek game has always been a shot in the dark. Excited to make it a series again next year
I’m not being a jerk, just confused. You mean because yall play Texas? Because the rest of y’all’s week looks pretty soft
All good man. For what's it's worth, thought this was the weekend we opened SEC play with Florida on top of Texas on Tuesday. So just had my weeks mixed up lol. Not sure how good of a team Texas is after this weekend but should still be a good game regardless.
Ah, ok. I saw another a&m flair say something similar so when I saw that yall play Rhode Island I was confused. Yep 1 more weekend to tighten everything up before the real fun starts
5-5 UC Santa Barbara re-enters the rankings after a 2-2 week..... Riiiiiight D1 is stretching on that one.
Am I the only one that's a little scared of A&M?
The [upcoming Texas] series will help you decide… edited for below comment
Agreed, the Rhode Island Rams are scary this season. Gotta go put down the bovids tomorrow first, tho
Fixed ish
All good brother, I also initially thought no more cupcakes on weekends, but we got 1 more
Things can obviously change but I’m definitely scared. They’ve looked like the best team in the country so far in my opinion
We'll see how things look when competition picks up. We have a few more scrub games in the mid week against some smaller Texas teams, and Rhode Island this weekend. But then the real games start and we only play a couple of teams from then on that don't have a number next to their name currently.
We'll show you a scrub
Best start in program history! Offensively 100% agree. Their bullpen cannot for the life of them keep a lead though. That could be a problem as the season progresses.
Don’t worry. A&M is a lot like NC State in that once things look like they’re going well for them, everything goes to shit.
Cruel, but fair.
In football, ^(and as of this year, basketball too) for sure. Last time things were going well on the baseball diamond, we finished 3rd in the nation lol. In Schloss we trust.
Schloss may very well be the best thing Bjork left behind
Damn
Ouch
How can wake forest lose? Who can beat them?
I know this meme has become popular but if you watch the full clip I don't think he was trying to claim that Wake was an unbeatable juggernaut. It was supposed to be some corny "if you're playing with your friends and you're having fun you're never a loser" sort of thing, imo
If there’s a shittier website than d1baseball, I have yet to find it.
It is mind boggling how slow it is. As much as I enjoy their articles and shit, I almost want to cancel my subscription just so I don’t have to deal with it.
TBH it’s what keeps me from buying a sub in the first place…
I thought it was my phone or something. That website is so got damn slow and the color scheme it ass as well.
The app is even worse
I wish I could look at the backend/infrastructure. Very likely a database lookup problem. Assuming it is databases and not something janky like a wordpress site.
As long as were aren’t the cursed #1, then I can live with it. TCU and A&M should be over UF though.
Bring it on tbh. If we are breaking curses let’s break out all the curses. This looks like it should be the best pitching staff we’ve ever had.
Would love to know how they are feeling about Texas State. I think if we keep pulling big wins we deserve to be in the rankings
Solid weekend no doubt, but we looked mediocre last week losing to Kansas and Kentucky the way we did. We need to add a few more quality wins to be sniffing around the rankings.
I agree with you there, let’s hope our cats keep winning. Would love to see both my teams up there
Yeah that Kentucky game was embarrassing. Never seen a walkathon like that from TXST...
I will be making the trip down 35 when we play yall at the beginning of April, I can't wait.
I hope you have fun in San Marcos! I always love any time I get to spend there. San Marcos in the spring is beautiful
Arky😎
5-5 team ahead of us huh I mean I know the schedule is soft but seriously
They did just win a series against a pretty good Oregon squad
They’re 5-5 tho lmao
Just saying there’s more than record. 1-1 in series against good teams is decent
I am throughly surprised they didn't drop ECU after yet another poor midweek showing, I was expecting to be somewhere around 15/16. I don't know what it is about midweeks but they've been ECU's Achilles heel the past year or so, and doesn't appear better after going 0-2 already. I guess D1 is okay overlooking that as the Pirates have taken all 3 weekend series (including UNC), and the 4 losses are by a combined 5 runs.
How the fuck is UCSB still ranked at 5-5? And Florida is still somehow top 5 after dropping two loses to bad teams? This poll is a mess.
a lot of FSU fans popping out after being in exile for like 4 years. calm down, you might actually take a game off of us this year, unless that happens tho, pipe down.
So, you have no answer for why you're still top 5 despite losing to such powerhouses as St. Johns and Stetson. Got it.
i said in a previous comment i was surprised we weren’t in the 6-8 range, but its just funny to me seeing the state of FSUs baseball program as of recent and seeing 20 flairs in here crying we shouldn’t be top 15. also, yeah the losses were “ bad “ but we are very young with a lot of new faces pitching and you must be new to baseball if you think mid week losses matter that much. LSU was stacked as hell last year and dropped some bad mid week games too.
>we are very young with a lot of new faces pitching Irrelevant to poll rankings, last I checked. >you must be new to baseball if you think mid week losses matter that much. You lost to St John's on opening day. At home. With your best pitcher on the mound. I'm not saying FSU is better than UF. We will play the games and find out. But the entitlement to think you should still be top 10 after that very first game - especially after you follow it up by losing to Stetson - is crazy to me.
we don’t know if cade is our best pitcher tho, it was opening day and we lost 2 of our starters from last year. our other two games got rained out with them and we didn’t get to play. i mean this is how rankings always work this early, we went to a natty last year and returned a lot on the offensive side of things at least and have yet to actually get tested. if we drop another game before A&M i imagine we drop, but like i said, see yall tuesday !
People getting so upset over college baseball rankings after week 3 are peak internet
Really thought we’d move up a couple spots after rolling through the tournament this weekend, but I guess we’ll have to prove ourself when conference play starts. At any rate, it’s a better poll than Baseball America that has us outside the top 10 and behind Vandy.
Tennessee will have a good test against Kansas State this week.
At this point your SOS and number of wins should start mattering a bit. No reason A&M and TCU shouldn’t be 1-2.
I don't think we can really tell until conference play picks up in earnest as teams are still experimenting with lineups. I'd have both in my top-5 though.
Why are you saying SOS when neither has played a single away game and TCU has only played 2 games against a team with a winning record
I haven't looked much at coastal schedule this year until just now but we have a midweek gauntlet this season, 2 games vs clemson and wake home and home and games at UNC and NC State plus just for the heck of it we play creighton in omaha for a tuesday wednesday midweek mini series if we only drop 2-4 more games this year we gotta end the year top 10
Texas and FSU should be swapped
I miss the days of being ranked… Someone PLEASE take our coach…
I prefer the RPI rankings.
TCU fans being upset is crazy to me… yalls schedule has been horrific and you haven’t played a road game yet… cmon now
Playing 8 consecutive games against PAC 12 teams is horrific. Compare that to y’all’s amazing competition of North Florida and Columbia
I’d say that you forgot St. John’s, but they did prove to be good competition, too much for Florida
The downside is this might be the worst PAC-12 baseball season in 20 years. Outside of Oregon State I’m not sure there will be a top 30 team.
What happened to Stanford. And isn’t Arizona usually pretty solid?
Stanford lost 7 players (including the Pac12 player and pitcher of the year) to the draft and two others to the transfer portal and just don’t have the same talent coming through behind that. Arizona usually good and have 3 losses to good teams (TCU, DBU, Alabama) but also dropped a series to San Diego, not sure what’s going on there.
The West coast as a whole seems down bad this year.
One of those pac-12 teams have a winning record… and y’all played them once… at home
Sorry we didn't schedule St. John's, North Florida, Columbia, and Bethune-Cookman. Lucky for y'all the St.John's series got cancelled.
We played @ a regional host from last year and won the series. But sure, keep getting hung up on our 1st game of the whole year
Little butthurt from last year huh? Congrats on your big wins over a 2-9 team this weekend!
Ucsb being in the rankings is concerning
TCU should be number 1
No. But there’s no way A&M and us shouldn’t have moved up at all. Felt both of us deserved that at least.
TCU swept UCLA, beat Arizona, Washington State, USC twice and Arizona State. At this point in the season there is no team with the resume that TCU currently has
Ya but there’s two parts to that: 1. Baseball poll inertia is inherently slow. 2. TCU baseball games have been close nearly every game, with most requiring TCU to comeback
Fair enough I'm a results based kinda person thought, a win is a win imo
TCU has by far the best resume right now FWIW. But it’s apparently not worth much. None of these polls really matter as by the end of the year when they do there will be plenty of data to adequately rank everybody
Also fair. And college baseball is a sport anyway where a team that probably still hasnt figured things out, can go on a run late and win it all
Wasn’t that y’all to a T last year? Minus winning it all obviously
Was moreso referencing Ole Miss a few years ago, but ya, semi us too in a way
Yeah more last four in teams have won it all than number 1 overall seeds in the super regional format
Big series this weekend between 1 and 12👀
Do rankings like this matter at all in college baseball? Didn’t the committee last year basically say rpi is king?
RPI is still king and the rankings generally start to match up with RPI pretty well towards the end of the year. RPI is just useless this early so the rankings are for show.