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POLL POSITION: Ole Miss sees big drop after series loss at South Carolina

11by:Jake Thompson•04/21/25•

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Ole Miss infielder Luke Hill. Mandatory credit: Ole Miss athletics

This past weekend in Columbia was set up to be the bounce-back Southeastern Conference series Ole Miss needed over a scuffling South Carolina.

Instead the Gamecocks pitched it the best they had all year and the Rebels offense vanished on Thursday and Friday, leading to their second-straight SEC series loss.

Despite recovering with a 12-2 run-rule win on Saturday to avoid the sweep Ole Miss was dinged pretty hard in Monday’s latest rankings.

In D1Baseball the Rebels (28-12, 10-8 SEC) fell 12 spots to No. 23 and Baseball America dropped them 11 spots to No. 22 after the 1-3 week, including last Tuesday’s 7-3 loss to Little Rock in the annual Kids’ Day game.

After spending most of the season up this past week in the top 10 of the RPI Ole Miss now sits at No. 22 coming off the series loss to South Carolina.

“Bad weekend. We’ll think about this weekend a little bit,” Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco said on Saturday. “It was a disappointing three days for us, but to finish the way we did and finish on a good note. To pitch it well, to play good defense and obviously get the bats going again, which we hadn’t seen in a few days, was good.”

This week features four games against SEC teams. Tuesday’s Governor’s Cup in Pearl against Mississippi State (24-16) serves as the midweek contest before returning back to Oxford-University Stadium to host No. 9 Vanderbilt (30-10, 11-7) for a weekend series. The Commodores are coming off a sweep at No. 10 Georgia.

Below is the complete Top 25 rankings from D1Baseball:

  1. Texas (33-5)
  2. Clemson (35-7)
  3. Oregon State (30-7)
  4. Florida State (29-7)
  5. Arkansas (34-7)
  6. Tennessee (33-7)
  7. LSU (34-7)
  8. North Carolina (31-9)
  9. Vanderbilt (30-10)
  10. Georgia (33-9)
  11. Auburn (27-13)
  12. UC Irvine (28-9)
  13. Oregon (27-11)
  14. Oklahoma (29-10)
  15. UCLA (29-10)
  16. Arizona (28-11)
  17. West Virginia (34-4)
  18. Alabama (31-10)
  19. Louisville (28-11)
  20. Troy (28-12)
  21. Coastal Carolina (30-10)
  22. Southern Mississippi (27-13)
  23. Ole Miss (28-12)
  24. Georgia Tech (29-11)
  25. North Carolina State (27-12)

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