College Baseball BCS (May 22)

By Samuel Chi

One more week before the regional pairings announcement, the top of the standings look pretty solidified with all but one of the national seeds spoken for. The top six teams in the current standings should be locks for national seeds, as well as No. 9 UCLA, leaving the final spot up for grabs among No. 7 Rice, No. 8 North Carolina and No. 9 Texas A&M.

Florida State, ranked No. 1 in four of the five polls, appears to be the odds-on favorite to be the top-seeded team in the upcoming 64-team field. This is the fifth straight week the Seminoles are on top of the BCS standings. Florida, Baylor, Oregon, LSU and South Carolina, the other national seed locks, round out Nos. 2-6.

The Titans, who lost their first weekend series since the season-opener at Florida, dropped three spots to No. 15, teetering on the edge of a regional host bid. Kentucky likewise had a precipitous fall, plummeting seven spots to No. 13.

There is a remarkable consensus among the five polls as to the top 26 teams. Only Collegiate Baseball's stubborn ranking of Texas and Oklahoma fell outside of this consensus. Each of the top 25 teams in the standings are ranked by at least four polls and No. 26 Mississippi State is on three ballots.

The conference breakdown: SEC (7), Pac-12 (6), ACC (6), Big 12 (4), Conference USA (3), West Coast (3), Big East (1), Big Ten (1), Big West (1), Mountain West (1), Independent (1).

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College Baseball BCS (May 15)

By Samuel Chi

The polls are a bit divergent this week, with three different teams crowned No. 1 in five polls. But Florida State, on the strength of three No. 1s and solid RPI and ISR scores, retained the top spot in the College Baseball BCS standings for a fourth consecutive week.

The Seminoles are followed by Sunshine State rival Florida, South Carolina, Baylor and Oregon in the top five. The Gamecocks and Ducks each received a No. 1 ranking this week. The Bears, losing their first three Big 12 games this season when they were swept by Oklahoma, fell out of the top five in three polls.

The Titans, who won their 11th consecutive weekend series, fell one spot to No. 12. Fullerton is two spots behind its likely Super Regional foe UCLA and one ahead of Stanford and three ahead of Arizona, two of the teams likely to be sent to the Fullerton Regional as a No. 2 seed.

TCU returns to the top 25, checking in at No. 24, displacing Louisville, last week's No. 24. Gonzaga and St. John's are out of the rankings while Appalachian State and Oklahoma check in.

The conference breakdown: SEC (7), Pac-12 (6), ACC (6), Big 12 (5), Conference USA (3), Big East (1), Big Ten (1), Big West (1), Mountain West (1), Southern (1), West Coast (1), Independent (1).

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College Baseball BCS (May 8)

By Samuel Chi

There isn't a lot of shakeups near the top of this week's Baseball BCS standings, as Florida State holds the No. 1 spot for the third straight week. The Seminoles are a unanimous No. 1 choice of all five polls and rank No. 1 in the ISR and No. 2 in the RPI.

Baylor is second, followed by a trio of SEC teams - Florida, South Carolina and LSU - followed by another Lone Star entry in Rice. Oregon, at No. 7, is the highest ranked West Coast team.

The Titans just missed being in the top 10, thanks to the continued low rankings in the USA Today coaches poll and NCBWA poll. UCLA checks in at No. 9 and Stanford at No. 13.

No new teams made it into the top 25, but several first-time entries are lurking. TCU is back in the picture at No. 26 and Dallas Baptist makes its BCS debut at No. 27.

The conference breakdown: SEC (7), Pac-12 (6), ACC (6), Big 12 (4), Conference USA (3), WCC (2), Big East (2), Big Ten (1), Big West (1), Mountain West (1), Independent (1).

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College Baseball BCS (May 1)

By Samuel Chi

This week's College Baseball BCS standings. Three teams are added to the standings while last week's two bottom dwellers - Wake Forest and Oklahoma - dropped out.

For the second consecutive week, Florida State is No. 1 in the standings, followed by Baylor, which earned the lone No. 1 poll ranking (in Collegiate Baseball) that didn't go to the Seminoles. The Bears are followed by four SEC teams: South Carolina, LSU, Florida and Kentucky.

Stanford is now the highest-ranked Pac-12 team, at No. 7, as UCLA dropped out of the top 10 after losing a weekend series to the Cardinal, to No. 13. Cal State Fullerton, idle last weekend, plummeted four spots to No. 15.

The conference breakdown: SEC (6), Pac-12 (6), ACC (5), Big 12 (4), Conference USA (3), WCC (2), Big Ten (1), Big East (1), Big West (1), Big South (1), Southland (1), Southern (1), WAC (1).

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College Baseball BCS (April 24)

By Samuel Chi

This week's College Baseball BCS standings. Two teams made it into the standings in addition to last week's 30.

Florida State replaced Florida atop the new standings. The Gators slid to No. 2, followed by Kentucky, red-hot Baylor and LSU. Rice made the biggest jump this week, going from No. 12 to No. 7, while Texas A&M had the most precipitous drop, going down 10 spots to No. 15. The Titans moved up four spots to No. 11.

The conference breakdown: SEC (6), Pac-12 (6), ACC (6), Big 12 (4), Conference USA (3), WCC (2), Big Ten (1), Big East (1), Big West (1), Southland (1), WAC (1).

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