Tennessee Baseball remains No. 1 team in four major polls
Despite dropping two games over the past week, the Tennessee baseball program remained as the top-team in the country in four of the major polls thanks to a Southeastern Conference series-win on the road at No. 12 Alabama.
The Vols (22-2, 5-1 SEC) dropped their first game of the season on Tuesday night to East Tennessee State. Tennessee also fell in game one to Alabama on Thursday, making the first time in over a calendar year the program lost in consecutive-games.
Tennessee bounced back to a 10-7 win over the Tide in game two of the series when Tanner Franklin struck out the tying run at the plate to end the contest. The Vols exploded out of the gates in the series-finale, winning the rubber match 9-2. The series was played without star second baseman Gavin Kilen, who missed the series with a hamstring injury.
D1 Baseball, the publication this website follows for rankings, kept the Vols at No. 1 as previously second-ranked LSU dropped a road series at Texas. Baseball America, Perfect Game and the USA TODAY Coaches Poll also continue to sport Tennessee as the No. 1 ranked program.
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, who previously hadn’t updated their rankings the past three weeks, listed Tennessee as the No. 3 team in the country on Monday evening.
Arkansas, Georgia, Florida State, Oregon State, Clemson and Texas each jumped up one spot in the D1 Baseball rankings to No. 2-7. LSU dropped six spots to No. 8 while Oklahoma and Oregon slipped spots at No. 9 and No. 10, respectively.
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The SEC comprises the top-three overall spots in the updated D1 Baseball rankings, six in the top-10 and 10 f the top-25.
This week marks the second-straight week Tennessee has been considered the consensus No. 1 ranked team in the country for the 2025 season.
The Vols return to action Tuesday night from Lindsey Nelson Stadium with Queens before hitting the road for another conference series at South Carolina this weekend.
Vols in the National Polls this Week
USA Today – No. 1
Baseball America – No. 1
Perfect Game – No. 1
D1 Baseball – No. 1
NCBWA – No. 3
