DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 28th year with its 2025 weekly surveys.
Tennessee remains as No. 1 for the second week in succession as LSU moved up two places to No. 2. Rounding out this week’s top five are North Carolina, Florida State and Arkansas.
Some of the big movers from Week Four to Week Five were Texas from No. 15 to 10, Oklahoma from No. 19 to 16, Alabama from No. 23 to 20 and Ole Miss from receiving votes to its first time in this year’s poll at No. 23.
There have been eight conferences (eight again this week) represented in the first five standings of 2025, and there were 12 different conferences in the 2024 NCBWA polls.
The 2025 poll voters come from among 33 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation, and the ’25 season features 307 NCAA Division I baseball-playing schools. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to ncbwa.com.
| 2025 NCBWA DIVISION I POLL (MARCH 10) | ||||
| Rk. | School | Conference | Record | Pvs. |
| 1. | Tennessee | SEC | 16-0 | 1 |
| 2. | LSU | SEC | 16-1 | 4 |
| 3. | North Carolina | ACC | 14-2 | 3 |
| 4. | Florida State | ACC | 15-0 | 5 |
| 5. | Arkansas | SEC | 15-1 | 6 |
| 6. | Florida | SEC | 15-2 | 7 |
| 7. | Georgia | SEC | 18-1 | 8 |
| 8. | Clemson | ACC | 15-1 | 10 |
| 9. | Oregon State | Independent | 10-3 | 9 |
| 10. | Texas | SEC | 13-1 | 15 |
| 11. | Wake Forest | ACC | 14-3 | 11 |
| 12. | Oregon | Big Ten | 14-2 | 14 |
| 13. | Vanderbilt | SEC | 13-3 | 12 |
| 14. | Virginia | ACC | 9-5 | 13 |
| 15. | Texas A&M | SEC | 9-6 | 2 |
| 16. | Oklahoma | SEC | 14-1 | 19 |
| 17. | UC Santa Barbara | Big West | 13-2 | 18 |
| 18. | Troy | Sun Belt | 13-3 | 20 |
| 19. | DBU | CUSA | 11-4 | 17 |
| 20. | Alabama | SEC | 16-1 | 23 |
| 21. | West Virginia | Big 12 | 14-1 | 22 |
| 22. | Southern Miss | Sun Belt | 12-5 | 24 |
| 23. | Ole Miss | SEC | 14-1 | RV |
| 24. | Mississippi State | SEC | 11-4 | 16 |
| 25. | Auburn | SEC | 13-3 | RV |
| Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Arizona (11-4), Arizona State (12-4), Baylor (12-3), BYU (10-5), Cincinnati (10-6), Coastal Carolina (12-4), Duke (10-6), East Tennessee State (12-3), FIU (12-5), Florida Atlantic (12-3), Georgia State (12-4), Georgia Tech (13-3), Hawai’i (11-4), Houston (12-4), Jackson State (9-2), Kansas (14-1), Kentucky (12-2), Louisville (12-2), (Miami (Fla.) (12-5), Michigan (8-6), Michigan State (12-3), NC State (11-5), Nebraska (5-8), Notre Dame (8-4), Oklahoma State (9-6), Penn State (11-2), Pittsburgh (9-5), Purdue (14-2), Richmond (14-2), South Carolina (14-3), Southern Illinois (11-3), Stanford (12-3),TCU (12-4), Tulane (11-4), UAB (13-3), UCF (12-3), UC Irvine (11-4), UCLA (12-4), USC (9-6), Utah (11-4), UTRGV (11-2), WKU (15-1). | ||||
| Dropped out: No. 21 TCU, No. 25 NC State. | ||||
| By conference: SEC 12, ACC 6, Sun Belt 2, Big 12 1, Big Ten 1, Big West 1, CUSA 1, Independent 1. | ||||
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