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USA Today
19-05-2025
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- USA Today
Clemson baseball Top 25 rankings roundup: Where Tigers sit as regular season ends
Clemson baseball Top 25 rankings roundup: Where Tigers sit as regular season ends Clemson baseball had a strong showing to finish the 2025 regular season. The Tigers (41-15 overall, 18-12 ACC) capped the regular season with a 13-6 victory at Pitt on Saturday to complete a three-game sweep of the Panthers. Clemson had dropped three straight series after starting the season by winning their first 10 weekend series or tournaments/invitationals. The Tigers reached 40 wins for the third straight season under coach Erik Bakich. Clemson will head to the ACC Baseball Championship as the No. 5 seed and will face either Stanford or Virginia Tech Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET. The game will be televised on ACC Network. The Tigers' sweep of Pitt, in which they outscored the Panthers 30-9, caused them to rise in Monday's new top 25 college baseball rankings. Here's a roundup of where Clemson sits in the new rankings and polls. USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll ranking for Clemson The Tigers rose to No. 12 in this week's USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll. They're ranked one spot below No. 11 Coastal Carolina (43-11) and one spot ahead of No. 13 UCLA (36-15). Last week's Coaches Poll ranking: No. 13. Coaches Poll No. 1 ranked team: LSU Tigers D1 Baseball Top 25 ranking for Clemson Over at D1 Baseball, veteran analyst Kendall Rogers and staff moved Clemson up to No. 14 in the rankings behind UCLA (No. 13) and Southern Miss (No. 12, 41-13). Last week's ranking: No. 15. D1 Baseball's No. 1 ranked team: LSU Baseball America Top 25 ranking for Clemson At Baseball America, the Tigers rose to No. 14. Clemson ranks one spot below No. 13 Dallas Baptist and one spot ahead of UCLA in these rankings. Baseball America's Peter Flaherty and Jacob Rudner said of Clemson: "Clemson appears built for another deep postseason push, boasting the kind of balance that plays in the summer. Jacob Jarrell, Collin Priest and Josh Paino each reached double-digit home runs, while Cam Cannarella hit .332 and played standout defense in center field. On the mound, Knaak, Drew Titsworth and a steady bullpen trio of Lucas Mahlstedt, Joe Allen and Reed Garris provided consistency from start to finish." Last week's ranking: No. 17 Baseball America's No. 1 ranked team: LSU New York Times Top 25 college baseball ranking for Clemson Mitch Light moved Clemson up to No. 12 in his Top 25 rankings for The Athletic. As with the Coaches Poll, the Tigers rank one spot below Coastal Carolina and just ahead of Southern Miss. Last week's ranking: No. 15 The Athletic No. 1 ranked team: Texas Longhorns Perfect Game college baseball ranking for Clemson baseball Clemson rose to No. 12 in Perfect Game's rankings, a marginal bump from last week. The three teams the Tigers passed in the rankings were UC Irvine, Dallas Baptist and West Virginia. Last week's ranking: No. 15 No. 1 team: LSU Clemson baseball ACC Tournament schedule Clemson will face the winner of Stanford vs. Virginia Tech on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET at Durham Bulls Park in North Carolina. The game will be televised on ACC Network.
USA Today
02-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Baseball America unveils projected field of 64: Is Clemson a top eight national seed?
Baseball America unveils projected field of 64: Is Clemson a top eight national seed? For the second straight year, Clemson is projected as a top eight national seed entering the month of April. Clemson baseball has gotten off to another strong start in 2025. Erik Bakich's Tigers are currently 25-8 overall after holding on for a 10-8 win over Georgia Southern in midweek play Tuesday. They're 6-3 in conference play, having won each of their first three ACC weekend series against Notre Dame, Wake Forest and Georgia Tech after a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over the Yellow Jackets Saturday night to clinch the series. Clemson is ranked No. 7 in this week's USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll but fell two spots from No. 5 following an 18-2 blowout loss in Game 1 of last Saturday's doubleheader in Atlanta and an 8-2 loss to Coastal Carolina earlier that week. On Wednesday, Baseball America unveiled its new Field of 64 projections for the 2025 NCAA Tournament. The Tigers were a projected No. 7 national seed, one seed below ACC rival Florida State (23-4) and one seed ahead of the Alabama Crimson Tide (26-4). Baseball America's projected top five overall seeds are all SEC teams: the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers (27-2 overall), followed by the Arkansas Razorbacks (No. 2, 27-3 overall), Texas Longhorns (No. 3, 23-4), Georgia Bulldogs (No. 4, 29-2) and LSU Tigers (No. 5, 27-3). Finishing with a top eight national seed would mean that Clemson would also host a best-of-three Super Regional, if the Tigers advance past their four-team on-site regional. Baseball America currently projects the Tigers to host the Arizona State Sun Devils, as well as Northeastern from the CAA, and East Tennessee State from the Southern Conference in a four-team, double-elimination Clemson Regional. The official field of 64 bracket that will make up the 2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament will be unveiled Monday, May 26 at 11 a.m. CT. The full bracket unveiling will be televised on ESPN2 or ESPNU. On-site regionals begin the following Friday, May 30. A year ago, Clemson advanced to the Super Regional round where they fell to the Florida Gators. Clemson's last trip to the College World Series in Omaha was back in 2010. Clemson baseball schedule 2025: Who do Tigers play next? The Tigers resume ACC play on Friday when they make a west coast trip to Berkeley to face the California Golden Bears (16-12 overall, 6-6 ACC) for the first time. First pitch Friday is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET. The game can be seen on ACC Network Extra/ESPN+.
USA Today
31-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Alabama makes big jump in new Top 25 college baseball rankings after Oklahoma series win
Alabama makes big jump in new Top 25 college baseball rankings after Oklahoma series win Alabama moved into the top 10 in every major Top 25 poll and rankings after its SEC series victory over the Oklahoma Sooners Sunday. The Alabama Crimson Tide won another big weekend series in SEC play Sunday when they fought both the rain and a furious late-inning comeback attempt by the Oklahoma Sooners for an 8-6 win and another series victory against a Top 25 college baseball program. Alabama (25-4 overall, 6-3 SEC) got out to an 8-1 lead over the ninth-ranked Sooners on Sunday at Sewell-Thomas Stadium and held on to win their second of three series in conference play this year, taking two of three from a Top 10 opponent in Oklahoma. After wrapping up a 3-1 week, the Crimson Tide were on the rise in Monday's new Top 25 college baseball polls and rankings. Rob Vaughn's team rose three spots to surge into the top 10 of the new USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll at No. 8. It's the first time all season that Alabama has been ranked in the top 10 of the Coaches Poll. Over at Baseball America, the Crimson Tide rose two spots to No. 8. In Baseball America's rankings, Alabama ranks one spot below No. 7 Clemson (26-5) and one spot ahead of Oklahoma (22-5). Peter Flaherty and Jacob Rudner said of Alabama after its impressive series against Oklahoma: "Alabama continued its strong start with a 3–1 week, highlighted by a marquee series win over No. 8 Oklahoma. After edging North Alabama in a neutral-site midweek game, the Crimson Tide took two of three from the Sooners at home, bookending the series with a pair of 8–6 victories. Kade Snell and Justin Lebron powered the offense—each tallying six hits on the week. Snell drove in five runs and notched two doubles, while Lebron added two doubles of his own along with a home run." Alabama's biggest jump in any of the rankings came from Perfect Game, which moved the Crimson Tide up six spots to No. 8. Perfect Game ranks Alabama one spot below the No. 7 LSU Tigers (26-3) and one spot ahead No. 9 Oklahoma. Over at D1 Baseball, the Tide rose four spots to No. 8. D1 baseball ranks Alabama one spot below LSU and one spot ahead of the No. 9 Ole Miss Rebels (21-6). The Tennessee Volunteers (26-2) remained the top-ranked team in each of the major Top 25 polls and rankings. Tony Vitello's club has been No. 1 in the Coaches Poll for six consecutive weeks and swept South Carolina over the weekend in Columbia. Alabama baseball schedule 2025: Who do Crimson Tide play next? Alabama welcomes the Samford Bulldogs to Sewell-Thomas Stadium in midweek play Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. CT. The Crimson Tide resume SEC play Friday when they take on the Auburn Tigers (20-8) in another Top 25 series at Plainsman Park. First pitched Friday is scheduled for 6 p.m. Auburn is ranked No. 17 in the Coaches Poll after falling five spots following a weekend series sweep at the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs (28-2) in Athens.
USA Today
31-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Florida baseball outside top 25 in all major polls
Florida baseball outside top 25 in all major polls Florida baseball lost three of four games last week and is no longer ranked in any of the four major polls. The Gators fell out of the D1Baseball Top 25 last week after being swept by the Georgia Bulldogs, and Baseball America, Perfect Game and USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll have now followed suit. Florida stands at an unofficial No. 31 in the country with 22 points from the Coaches Poll voters, so there is still a chance for the Orange and Blue to get back in the mix with a strong week. The college baseball season officially reached the halfway mark (30 games played of 56 scheduled), and Florida has dropped series against Coaches Poll No. 1 Tennessee, No. 3 Georgia and No. 10 Ole Miss. Things won't get much easier with No. 20 Vanderbilt coming to town this weekend. The Gators have one midweek game this week against North Florida, kicking off a nine-game homestand. SEC Teams ranked in Top 25 Tennessee remains the consensus top program in college baseball, and Arkansas owns three of the four No. 2 spots and is No. 3 for Perfect Game. Georgia is PG's No. 2, with the Bulldogs landing at No. 3 for USA TODAY and D1Baseball. UGA is lowest ranked at No. 4 by Baseball America, giving the SEC three consensus top-4 teams in the sport. Texas ranks No. 5 everywhere but BA, where the Longhorns check in at No. 4 this week. LSU falls anywhere between Nos. 5 and 7, and Alabama is the consensus No. 8 team this week. Oklahoma holds three of four No. 9 spots, with Ole Miss in the fourth. The Rebels are inside the top-10 everywhere but Perfect Game, which means the SEC produced eight of the top-10 teams across all the major polls. Auburn is the next SEC team mentioned in the polls, finishing between Nos. 14 and 17 — the Tigers control a different spot in all four polls. Florida's upcoming opponent, Vanderbilt, is all over the place as well. Baseball America is the highest on the Commodores at No. 16, but the other three polls have him ranked No. 20 or lower. College Baseball Rankings Week 7 Ranking USA TODAY D1Baseball Perfect Game Baseball America 1 Tennessee Volunteers (–) Tennessee Volunteers (–) Tennessee Volunteers (–) Tennessee Volunteers (–) 2 Arkansas Razorbacks (–) Arkansas Razorbacks (–) Georgia Bulldogs (–) Arkansas Razorbacks (–) 3 Georgia Bulldogs (–) Georgia Bulldogs (–) Arkansas Razorbacks (+1) Texas Longhorns (–) 4 Florida State Seminoles (–) Florida State Seminoles (–) Clemson Tigers (-1) Georgia Bulldogs (–) 5 Texas Longhorns (+2) Texas Longhorns (+2) Texas Longhorns (–) LSU Tigers (–) 6 LSU Tigers (–) Clemson Tigers (+1) Florida State Seminoles (–) Florida State Seminoles (–) 7 Clemson Tigers (-2) LSU Tigers (+1) LSU Tigers (–) Clemson Tigers (–) 8 Alabama Crimson Tide (+3) Alabama Crimson Tide (+4) Alabama Crimson Tide (+6) Alabama Crimson Tide (+2) 9 Oklahoma Sooners (–) Ole Miss Rebels (+6) Oklahoma Sooners (-1) Oklahoma Sooners (-1) 10 Ole Miss Rebels (+5) Oklahoma Sooners (-1) UCLA (+13) Ole Miss Rebels (+5) 11 Oregon State Beavers (-3) Oregon State Beavers (-6) West Virginia Mountaineers (+5) North Carolina Tarheels (+7) 12 Oregon Ducks (-2) UC Irvine Anteaters (+3) UC Irvine Anteaters (+8) Oregon State Beavers (-3) 13 UC Irvine Anteaters (+8) Southern Miss Golden Eagles (–) Oregon State Beavers (-4) UC Irvine Anteaters (+4) 14 North Carolina Tarheels (+4) UCLA Bruins (+10) Auburn Tigers (-3) Louisville Cardinals (+6) 15 UCLA (+11) Oregon Ducks (-5) Oregon Ducks (+5) Auburn Tigers (+3) 16 Southern Miss Golden Eagles (–) Auburn Tigers (-5) Ole Miss Rebels (NR) Vanderbilt Commodores (+2) 17 Auburn Tigers (-5) Dallas Baptist Patriots (–) Dallas Baptist Patriots (–) UCLA Bruins (+8) 18 Louisville Cardinals (+1) Louisville Cardinals (–) Troy Trojans (–) Wake Forest Demon Deacons (+5) 19 Dallas Baptist Patriots (-2) North Carolina Tarheels (+2) Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (+2) Dallas Baptist Patriots (-12) 20 Vanderbilt Commodores (-7) Troy Trojans (+2) Arizona Wildcats (-8) Troy Trojans (+4) 21 Troy Trojans (+3) Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (NR) Vanderbilt Commodores (-8) Oregon Ducks (-10) 22 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (+3) Kansas State Wildcats (NR) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (-3) Arizona Wildcats (-6) 23 Wake Forest Demon Deacons (-9) Vanderbilt Commodores (-9) North Carolina Tarheels (+2) Kansas Jayhawks (NR) 24 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (+4) Arizona State Sun Devils (NR) Wake Forest Demon Deacons (-9) Southern Miss Golden Eagles (-1) 25 West Virginia Mountaineers (+2) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (–) Arizona State Sun Devils (NR) Virginia Tech Hokies (NR) Dropped out USA TODAY: No. 20 Arizona; No. 22 Stanford; No. 23 Florida; Baseball America: No. 19 Florida; No. 22 Stanford; D1Baseball: No. 16 Wake Forest; No. 20 Stanford, Florida; No. 23 Arizona; Perfect Game: No. 22 Florida; No. 24 Stanford Follow us @GatorsWire on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as Bluesky, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Florida Gators news, notes and opinions.
USA Today
26-03-2025
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- USA Today
D1Baseball drops Florida from Top 25, USA TODAY and Perfect Game have Gators on bubble
D1Baseball drops Florida from Top 25, USA TODAY and Perfect Game have Gators on bubble 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 the three polls below the No. 15 mark. College Baseball Rankings Week 6 Ranking USA TODAY D1Baseball Perfect Game 1 Tennessee Volunteers (–) Tennessee Volunteers (–) Tennessee Volunteers (–) 2 Arkansas Razorbacks (+1) Arkansas Razorbacks (+1) Georgia Bulldogs (+1) 3 Georgia Bulldogs (+2) Georgia Bulldogs (+1) Clemson Tigers (+1) 4 Florida State Seminoles (–) Florida State Seminoles (+1) Arkansas Razorbacks (+3) 5 Clemson Tigers (+1) Oregon State Beavers (+1) Texas Longhorns (+1) 6 LSU Tigers (-4) Clemson Tigers (+1) Florida State Seminoles (-1) 7 Texas Longhorns (–) Texas Longhorns (+1) LSU Tigers (-5) 8 Oregon State Beavers (–) LSU Tigers (-6) Oklahoma Sooners (–) 9 Oklahoma Sooners (–) Oklahoma Sooners (+1) Oregon State Beavers (–) 10 Oregon Ducks (-1) Oregon Ducks (-1) Oregon Ducks (+4) 11 Alabama Crimson Tide (+1) Auburn Tigers (+9) Auburn Tigers (+7) 12 Auburn Tigers (+4) Alabama Crimson Tide (–) Arizona Wildcats (+7) 13 Vanderbilt Commodores (+6) Southern Miss Golden Eagles (+6) Vanderbilt Commodores (+7) 14 Wake Forest Demon Deacons (-1) Vanderbilt Commodores (+8) Alabama Crimson Tide (-3) 15 Ole Miss Rebels (+3) Ole Miss Rebels (+3) Wake Forest Demon Deacons (-3) 16 Southern Miss Golden Eagles (+7) Wake Forest Demon Deacons (-5) West Virginia Mountaineers (-3) 17 Dallas Baptist Patriots (–) Dallas Baptist Patriots (-2) Dallas Baptist Patriots (–) 18 North Carolina Tarheels (-3) Louisville Cardinals (-2) Troy Trojans (NR) 19 Louisville Cardinals (+1) UC Irvine Anteaters (NR) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (NR) 20 Arizona Wildcats (+8) Stanford Cardinal (-6) UC Irvine Anteaters (NR) 21 UC Irvine Anteaters (+5) North Carolina Tarheels (-4) Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (-5) 22 Stanford Cardinal (-8) Troy Trojans (+3) Florida Gators (-12) 23 Florida Gators (-12) Arizona Wildcats (NR) UCLA (+1) 24 Troy Trojans (+3) UCLA Bruins (NR) Stanford Cardinal (-9) 25 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (+5) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (NR) North Carolina Tarheels (-2) Dropped out USA TODAY: No. 21 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos; No. 22 Virginia Cavaliers; No. 24 West Virginia Mountaineers; No. 25 Coast Carolina Chanticleers. D1Baseball: No. 13 Florida Gators; No. 21 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos; No. 23 Virginia Cavaliers; No. 24 Coast Carolina Chanticleers. Perfect Game: No. 21 Virginia Cavaliers; No. 22 Louisville Cardinals; No. 25 UCF Knights. Follow us @GatorsWire on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as Bluesky, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Florida Gators news, notes and opinions.
