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POLL POSITION: Ole Miss baseball falls out of one Top 25, stays in another after series loss to Mississippi State

11by:Jake Thompson•05/12/25•

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The weekend in Starkville was not a pleasant one for Ole Miss baseball, something that has been a regular trend for a while. Dropping a second straight Southeastern Conference series also served as a gut punch to postseason outlook.

What the pair of losses also did was hand Ole Miss (34-17, 14-13 SEC) a drop out of one top 25 poll, but staying alive in another.

With the final week of the regular season upon us the Rebels found themselves out of D1Baseball’s latest rankings released on Monday, falling from No. 24.

In Baseball America’s poll Ole Miss managed to stay in, dropping four spots to No. 22.

Losing the series to Mississippi State also damaged the outside shot the Rebels had of hosting a regional. Needing series wins, at the minimum, against the Bulldogs and this weekend against No. 6 Auburn was the recipe to get back to the good side of the hosting bubble.

Being as strong as the SEC is it is helping Ole Miss and its metrics with a current RPI ranking of 17 entering the final four games of the regular season. Still, leaving Dudy Noble Field without a series victory in its back pocket hurt in a lot of ways.

So now the Rebels will host UT Martin (20-30) on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. CT before opening up the final SEC series of the season on Thursday against the Tigers (36-15, 16-11), starting at 6:30 p.m CT.

Below are the full D1Baseball and Baseball America Top 25 rankings:

D1Baseball

  1. LSU (40-12)
  2. Florida State (36-11)
  3. Texas (40-10)
  4. North Carolina (37-11)
  5. Oregon (38-13)
  6. Auburn
  7. Oregon State (37-12)
  8. Arkansas (41-11)
  9. Vanderbilt (36-16)
  10. Georgia (40-13)
  11. Coastal Carolina (41-11)
  12. UC Irvine (38-11)
  13. North Carolina State (32-16)
  14. UCLA (37-14)
  15. Clemson (38-15)
  16. West Virginia (40-1)
  17. Tennessee (39-13)
  18. Alabama (39-13)
  19. Southern Mississippi (38-13)
  20. Duke (35-16)
  21. Louisville (34-17)
  22. Troy (37-16)
  23. Florida (35-18)
  24. Dallas Baptist (36-13)
  25. Northeastern (41-9)

Baseball America

  1. LSU
  2. Auburn
  3. North Carolina
  4. Georgia
  5. Florida State
  6. Texas
  7. Arkansas
  8. Coastal Carolina
  9. Oregon
  10. Vanderbilt
  11. Oregon State
  12. UC Irvine
  13. Florida
  14. Troy
  15. Dallas Baptist
  16. Alabama
  17. Clemson
  18. Tennessee
  19. West Virginia
  20. UCLA
  21. N.C. State
  22. Ole Miss
  23. Louisville
  24. Southern Mississippi
  25. UTSA

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