D1Baseball overhauls college baseball Top 25 rankings after upset-filled weekend

This weekend was a wild one in college baseball, and the results have drastically impacted the latest D1Baseball Top 25 rankings.

There were eight weekend series between two ranked teams on this week’s slate, but the action extended far beyond those. Overall, 12 ranked teams fell on the week, including all but three teams ranked from No. 6 to No. 18.

No. 4 Vanderbilt and No. 6 South Carolina battled in a heavyweight SEC bout, and it was the Commodores that came away with two wins and a series victory. No. 7 Virginia also fell, losing two out of three to Pittsburgh. No. 9 Stanford was the next top ten to fall this weekend, losing two out of three to an Oregon team on the fringe of the Top 25. No. 2 Wake Forest also defeated No. 10 Louisville, with the Demon Deacons taking two games.

Just outside of the top ten, the upsets continued. No. 11 Boston College lost two games against a surging Duke team. No. 12 Kentucky won the second game at No. 1 LSU, but it was the Tigers that took the final two games to come back and clinch the series. No. 13 North Carolina then lost twice against Miami, another team that has been on the fringe of the Top 25 rankings in college baseball.

It was a 1-3 week for No. 15 Florida Gulf Coast, who dropped a series at Eastern Kentucky. No. 16 Tennessee won its midweek contest this week, but then got swept at No. 5 Arkansas in a disappointing showing. No. 23 USC also got swept, with theirs coming at Oregon State. No. 18 Oklahoma State dropped its series against West Virginia, and rounding out the rankings, No. 25 TCU dropped a disappointing series against UNC Wilmington.

Updated top 25 rankings from D1Baseball

1. LSU (29-6)
2. Wake Forest (31-5)
3. Florida (30-7)
4. Vanderbilt (29-7)
5. Arkansas (29-7)
6. South Carolina (30-6)
7. East Carolina (28-8)
8. Virginia (31-6)
9. Stanford (23-10)
10. Coastal Carolina (23-11)
11. Campbell (27-8)
12. Louisville (26-9)
13. Kentucky (28-7)
14. Texas (26-12)
15. UConn (26-9)
16. Texas Tech (25-12)
17. Miami (22-13)
18. North Carolina (24-12)
19. Arizona State (25-10)
20. Boston College (24-11)
21. Oregon State (24-11)
22. UCLA (21-10-1)
23. Oregon (24-10)
24. Southern Miss (22-12)
25. UTSA (28-8)

Five new teams joined this week’s rankings – Miami, Oregon State, Oregon, Southern Miss and UTSA. They take the places of Florida Gulf Coast (previously No. 15), Tennessee (previously No. 16), Oklahoma State (previously No. 18), USC (previously No. 23) and TCU (previously No. 25).