USA TODAY COACHES PRESEASON BASEBALL POLL
1. Florida (52-19) Points: 766 (26 first-place votes). Previous ranking: 1. 2. Oregon State (56-6) Points: 735 (4). Previous ranking: 3. 3. Texas Tech (45-17) Points: 656 (1). Previous ranking: 15. 4. TCU (50-18) Points: 648. Previous ranking: 4. 5. Florida State (46-23) Points: 622. Previous ranking: 6. 6. Arkansas (45-19) Points: 605. Previous ranking: 18. 7. North Carolina (49-14) Points: 548. Previous ranking: 13. 8. Kentucky (43-23) Points: 500. Previous ranking: 10. 9. LSU (52-20) Points: 479. Previous ranking: 2. 10. Vanderbilt (36-25-1) Points: 414. Previous ranking: 16. 11. (Tie) Cal State-Fullerton (39-24) Points: 371. Previous ranking: 7. 11. (Tie) Texas A&M (41-23) Points: 371. Previous ranking: 8. 13. Louisville (53-12) Points: 369. Previous ranking: 5. 14. UCLA (30-27) Points: 365. Previous ranking: not ranked. 15. Mississippi State (40-27) Points: 345. Previous ranking: 12. 16. Stanford (42-16) Points: 337. Previous ranking: 17. 17. Dallas Baptist (42-21) Points: 268. Previous ranking: not ranked. 18. Virginia (43-16) Points: 246. Previous ranking: 21. 19. Mississippi (32-25) Points: 235. Previous ranking: not ranked. 20. Texas (39-24) Points: 162. Previous ranking: 25. 21. Clemson (42-21) Points: 150. Previous ranking: 22. 22. Houston (42-21) Points: 135. Previous ranking: 24. 23. South Alabama (40-21) Points: 128. Previous ranking: not ranked. 24. Miami (Fla.) (32-27) Points: 102. Previous ranking: not ranked. 25. N. Carolina State (36-25) Points: 65. Previous ranking: not ranked.
Dropped out: No. 9 Long Beach State (42-20-1), No. 11 Wake Forest (43-20), No. 14 Missouri State (43-20), No. 19 Sam Houston State (44-23), No. 20 Southern Mississippi
(50-16), No. 23 Davidson (35-26).
Others receiving votes: South Carolina (35-25) 55; Indiana (34-24-2) 47; Oklahoma
(35-24) 46; Arizona (38-21) 45; West Virginia (36-26) 39; Missouri State (43-20) 35; Louisiana-Lafayette (35-21-1) 26; Duke (30-28) 22; Sam Houston State (44-23) 19; Southern Mississippi (50-16) 19; Oklahoma State (30-27) 15; Auburn (37-26) 12; Michigan (42
17) 12; Nebraska (35-22-1) 12; Mercer (39-17) 11; Long Beach State (42-20-1) 7; Minnesota (36-20) 4; Oral Roberts (43-16) 3; Tulane (27-31) 3; Central Florida (40-22) 2; Florida International (31-27) 2; Georgia Southern (38-21) 2; Georgia Tech (27-28) 2; New Mexico (30-27-1) 2; St. John’s (42-13) 2; Stetson (27-29) 2; Kent State (37-18) 1; Marist
(32-23) 1; Oregon (30-25) 1; San Diego (35-18-1) 1; South Florida (42-19) 1; Southeastern Louisiana (37-22) 1; Wake Forest (43-20) 1.
The USA TODAY Sports board of coaches is made up of 31 coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the American Baseball Coaches Association.