College will start up pretty soon. Feb 20 is the start of the season!! I don't see Brown in the rankings though!! I see the Aggies and Longhorns made the top 10. Most of the other Skybox teams are pretty far down the preseason rankings. I see that So.Carolina is not ranked, which is suprising as they have had some great teams. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's 2009 NCAA Div. I Pre-Season Poll (Dec. 22, 2008) Rk School (’08 Final Record) Points 1. LSU (49-19-1) 495 2. North Carolina (54-14) 494 3. Rice (47-15) 489 4. Georgia (45-25-1) 486 5. Stanford (41-24-2) 484 6. Arizona St. (49-13) 482 7. Florida St. (54-14) 479 8. Louisville (41-21) 476 9. Texas A&M (46-19) 473 10. Texas (39-22) 470 11. Mississippi (39-25) 467 12. Georgia Tech. (41-21) 465 13. Cal. St. Fullerton (41-22) 462 14. Oklahoma State (44-18) 459 15. Baylor (32-26) 457 16. Fresno State (47-31) 456 17. San Diego (44-17) 453 18. Miami, Fla. (53-11) 451 19. Kentucky (44-19) 448 20. UC Irvine (42-18) 445 21. UCLA (33-27) 443 22. Missouri (39-21) 440 23. Pepperdine (38-21) 439 24. Southern California (28-28) 436 25. Florida (34-24) 435 26. Clemson (31-27-1) 432 27. Notre Dame (33-21-1) 430 28. Coastal Carolina (50-14) 428 29. Michigan (46-14) 425 30. UC Santa Barbara (35-21) 423 31. East Carolina (42-21) 422 32. Missouri St. (40-17) 420 33. Southern Miss (42-22) 417 34. Tulane (39-22-1) 415 35. Arizona (42-19) 414 36. Wichita St. (48-17) 410 37. TCU (44-19) 409 38. Oregon St. (28-24) 406 39. California (33-21-2) 402 40. Alabama (35-28) 398 Other Teams Receiving Votes: Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Arkansas, Auburn, Long Beach St., Oregon, Virginia, North Carolina St., Houston, Kent St., Santa Clara, U.C. Riverside, Oral Roberts, Nebraska, Kennesaw St., Ohio St., Oklahoma, San Diego St., Tennessee, Mississippi St., New Mexico, Jacksonville St., Elon, Western Kentucky, Dallas Baptist, N.C. Charlotte, South Florida, St. John's, Winthrop, Purdue, James Madison, Marshall, Central Florida, Washington, Washington St., Georgia Southern, Northwestern St., Lamar, Texas-San Antonio, Southern, Louisiana-Monroe, New Orleans, Hawaii, San Jose St., San Francisco.
Notre Dame at 27 has the "honor" of being the highest ranked northern, non-west coast team, 2 places higher than Michigan. In fact, ND and MI are the only two northern teams in the top 40.
Whoa, I know we lost a few good players but they seriously didn't even rank South Carolina in the top 40? We don't rebuild now we reload. We will be a force again. I don't know what these guys were smoking.