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Florida is out of the D1Baseball Top 25 after being swept by the Georgia Bulldogs over the weekend and is in danger of doing the same in the USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll and Perfect Game College Top 25.
Perfect Game ranks the Gators No. 22 this week and USA TODAY has them at No. 23. Florida has dropped six-straight games against SEC opponents to start the year, marking the worst opening in conference play of the Kevin O’Sullivan era in Gainesville. There’s still time to turn it around, but two weeks of poor play have experts doubting the Orange and Blue as the halfway point of the college baseball season approaches.
A midweek loss to Florida State isn’t going to help Florida’s case heading into a third weekend against a ranked SEC opponent. A sweep against Ole Miss might save Florida’s spot in the rankings, but there’s little reason to expect a number by its name moving forward.
SEC Teams ranked in Top 25
Tennessee remains the consensus top program in college baseball, and Arkansas owns two of the three No. 2 spots on the chart below. Georgia is Perfect Game’s No. 2, with Arkansas down at No. 4, and the Bulldogs are No. 3 everywhere else. LSU took a four-to-five-spot dip after a series loss to Texas, and the Longhorns leapfrogged the Tigers in two of three polls. Oklahoma is the No. 8 or No 9 program in the country, depending on the poll, giving the SEC seven consensus top-10 teams through six weeks of play.
Alabama and Auburn lead the next tier of SEC teams. The Tigers moved up on all three lists into the No. 11 or 12 spots, and the Crimson Tide is holding steady in the same area. Vanderbilt is generally just behind those two programs, and Ole Miss is No. 15, according to USA TODAY and D1 Baseball; however, Perfect Game does not have the Rebels inside the top 25.
Florida is the only SEC team ranked in any of…
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Publish date : 2025-03-26 19:51:00
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