UF BSB: Florida Ranked No. 6 in Collegiate Baseball's Preseason Poll

This is the 14th-consecutive season in which the Gators have cracked the top 25, as well as Florida’s sixth appearance inside the top-six nationally across the last-seven campaigns.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida baseball program came in at No. 6 in the country in Collegiate Baseball’s Fabulous 50 NCAA Division I preseason poll, as announced on Monday morning.

The Southeastern Conference led all leagues with four teams in the top 10 and 10 teams in the top 50. Six of those programs broke the top 25: Vanderbilt (No. 2), LSU (No. 3), Florida (No. 6), Mississippi State (No. 9), Ole Miss (No. 19) and Arkansas (No. 20). Of those SEC teams, Florida will play four of them during the regular season, as all but Ole Miss fall on the Gators’ 2022 schedule. With Florida State (No. 12) and Miami (No. 23) making the cut as well, the Orange & Blue stand to face a grand total of six CB preseason top-25 teams in 2022.

This is the 10th time in the last-13 seasons that the Gators have been ranked inside the top 10 and the 14th-consecutive season in which Florida has cracked Collegiate Baseball’s preseason top 25. That includes breaking the top-six nationally in seven of the last-eight sets of preseason rankings.

2022: No. 6
2021: No. 1
2020: No. 14
2019: No. 6
2018: No. 1
2017: No. 3
2016: No. 1
2015: No. 6
2014: No. 16
2013: No. 24
2012: No. 1
2011: No. 2
2010: No. 9
2009: No. 25

The Gators return 19 players including six positional starters from the 2021 campaign after going 38-22 (17-13 SEC) a season ago. Ranked as the No. 1 recruiting class in the country by Perfect Game<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__floridagators.com_news_2021_9_27_baseball-2Dfloridas-2D2021-2Drecruiting-2Dclass-2Dranked-2Dno-2D1-2Dby-2Dperfect-2Dgame.aspx&d=DwIF-g&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=o5LKAX7slotfFMyE71jI7L22NYBIi1-KbRGNSXudTPo&m=80UtbQs_89wPUkKxRwKlIA-o7V5uBdPIAMm_XUkvdH01-KAE0gmpdm-OoRbkA6KO&s=Ppc_2aj_tti0biGhcPaFHTdry582XA3jnxiGzsfI31I&e= >, 17 newcomers join that group of returning talent to compose the 2022 squad, featuring 16 freshmen and one four-year college transfer.

Florida is set to open the 2022 season at home the weekend of Feb. 18-20 in the form of a three-game series against Liberty of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

About the Collegiate Baseball Preseason Poll
The Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1959 college baseball season.

Below is the complete list of Collegiate Baseball’s preseason top-25 rankings.

Rank Team (2021 Final Record) Points
1. Texas (50-17) 498
2. Vanderbilt (49-18)* 494
3. Louisiana St. (38-25)* 491
4. Texas Tech. (39-17) 487
5. Stanford (39-17) 484
6. Florida (38-22) 481
7. Oklahoma St. (36-19-1) 480
8. East Carolina (44-17) 476
9. Mississippi St. (50-18)* 474
10. Notre Dame (34-13) 473
11. Georgia Tech. (31-25) 470
12. Florida St. (31-24)* 468
13. Texas Christian (41-19) 464
14. U.C. Irvine (43-18) 462
15. Louisiana Tech. (42-20) 461
16. Central Michigan (42-18) 458
17. U.C. Santa Barbara (41-20) 454
18. UCLA (37-20) 453
19. Mississippi (45-22) 451
20. Arkansas (50-13)* 448
21. Oregon (39-16) 447
22. Arizona (45-18) 445
23. Miami, Fla. (33-21)* 441
24. Virginia (36-27) 438
25. North Carolina (28-27) 435