No. 10 in the preseason<\/a> but quickly asserted themselves as one of the nation\u2019s elite teams.<\/p>\nThe other six teams in the CWS field make up the rest of the top eight. If you made it through two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, you\u2019ve done enough to deserve a top-eight finish.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma routs North Carolina, completes improbable run to national title<\/p>\n
Mitch Sherman<\/p>\n
For the rest of the ranking, I didn\u2019t simply reward postseason success. It was a combination of what teams did in the regular season and their performance in the NCAA Tournament \u2014 skewing more toward the regular season.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why you don\u2019t see Cal Poly in the top 25. Congrats to the Mustangs on a great season, but they won the Los Angeles Regional without having to play the host, UCLA, and then lost two games in the Supers to West Virginia by a combined score of 29-3. Little Rock was a tough omission \u2014 especially since Jacksonville State is ranked No. 24 and the Trojans beat the Gamecocks twice in the Hattiesburg Regional \u2014 but its body of work (39-28 overall, 16-11 in the OVC) just didn\u2019t warrant a spot in the top 25.<\/p>\n
Three teams that didn\u2019t even reach the finals in the Regionals remained in the ranking: UCLA (No. 10), Nebraska (No. 20) and Tennessee (No. 25).<\/p>\n
The Bruins went 52-8, including 28-2 in the Big Ten, but lost twice to No. 4 seed Saint Mary\u2019s in the Los Angeles Regional. The Cornhuskers (43-17, 23-7 Big Ten) beat South Dakota State in the opener of the Lincoln Regional before losing to Ole Miss and Arizona State.<\/p>\n
Tennessee, which went 0-2 in the Chapel Hill Regional, was a tough call. The deciding factor for the Vols: They went 8-7 against the College World Series field, with series wins over Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma. That\u2019s pretty strong.<\/p>\n
RankTeamRecordPostseasonLast rank<\/p>\n
1<\/p>\n
Oklahoma<\/p>\n
43-23<\/p>\n
Won national title<\/p>\n
NR<\/p>\n
2<\/p>\n
North Carolina<\/p>\n
54-14-1<\/p>\n
CWS finals<\/p>\n
2<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
Georgia<\/p>\n
52-12<\/p>\n
CWS semis<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
West Virginia<\/p>\n
46-15<\/p>\n
CWS semis<\/p>\n
10<\/p>\n
5<\/p>\n
Texas<\/p>\n
45-14<\/p>\n
CWS<\/p>\n
5<\/p>\n
6<\/p>\n
Alabama<\/p>\n
42-20<\/p>\n
CWS<\/p>\n
9<\/p>\n
7<\/p>\n
Ole Miss<\/p>\n
41-22<\/p>\n
CWS<\/p>\n
21<\/p>\n
8<\/p>\n
Troy<\/p>\n
38-31<\/p>\n
CWS<\/p>\n
NR<\/p>\n
9<\/p>\n
Georgia Tech<\/p>\n
50-11<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional final<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
10<\/p>\n
UCLA<\/p>\n
52-8<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional<\/p>\n
1<\/p>\n
11<\/p>\n
Auburn<\/p>\n
42-22<\/p>\n
Lost in Super Regional<\/p>\n
6<\/p>\n
12<\/p>\n
Kansas <\/p>\n
45-18<\/p>\n
Lost in Super Regional<\/p>\n
13<\/p>\n
13<\/p>\n
Mississippi State<\/p>\n
43-19<\/p>\n
Lost in Super Regional<\/p>\n
15<\/p>\n
14<\/p>\n
USC<\/p>\n
48-18<\/p>\n
Lost in Super Regional<\/p>\n
20<\/p>\n
15<\/p>\n
Texas A&M<\/p>\n
41-16<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional final<\/p>\n
7<\/p>\n
16<\/p>\n
Oregon<\/p>\n
43-18<\/p>\n
Lost in Super Regional<\/p>\n
18<\/p>\n
17<\/p>\n
Oregon State<\/p>\n
45-14<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional final<\/p>\n
8<\/p>\n
18<\/p>\n
Florida<\/p>\n
41-21<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional final<\/p>\n
11<\/p>\n
19<\/p>\n
Arkansas<\/p>\n
41-22<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional final<\/p>\n
14<\/p>\n
20<\/p>\n
Nebraska<\/p>\n
43-17<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional<\/p>\n
17<\/p>\n
21<\/p>\n
Florida State<\/p>\n
40-19<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional final<\/p>\n
12<\/p>\n
22<\/p>\n
Southern Miss<\/p>\n
44-17<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional<\/p>\n
16<\/p>\n
23<\/p>\n
Oklahoma State<\/p>\n
39-22<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional final<\/p>\n
19<\/p>\n
24<\/p>\n
Jacksonville State<\/p>\n
48-15<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional final<\/p>\n
NR<\/p>\n
25<\/p>\n
Tennessee<\/p>\n
38-22<\/p>\n
Lost in Regional<\/p>\n
25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 college baseball season ended on Monday night with Oklahoma claiming its first national title since 1994,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5084,5085,5086,5,648,1703,6228,3317,5082,6564,7184,6229,1694,2341,13728,3739,5075,16619,5083,5078,5079,5077,4122,6230,3794,5087,5080,6225,5076],"class_list":["post-747835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-sports","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-ole-miss-rebels","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-oregon-state-beavers","tag-southern-mississippi-golden-eagles","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-troy-trojans","tag-ucla-bruins","tag-usc-trojans","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}