Texas, LSU top final college baseball Power 10 rankings
Editor's note: The following .
Mark Etheridge, Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt, who have a combined 60 years of experience covering college baseball, compile our projections.
Bids by conference: SEC (13), ACC (10), Big 12 (8), Big Ten (3), Sun Belt (3), Big East (3)
Last four in: UConn, Troy, Xavier, Virginia
First four out: Notre Dame, Western Kentucky, SE Louisiana, UT Rio Grande Valley
4 more to watch: Texas A&;M, Cal Poly, Hawaii, Kennesaw State
Here's the projected field of 64 (parentheses indicate national seed, asterisks indicate automatic qualifiers):
| Field of 64 projections | |
|---|---|
| Austin, Texas | Atlanta, Ga. |
| 1. Texas* (1) | 1. Georgia Tech (16) |
| 2. UTSA* | 2. Florida |
| 3. Arizona State | 3. Oklahoma State |
| 4. Houston Christian* | 4. Murray State* |
| Nashville, Tenn. | Hattiesburg, Miss. |
| 1. Vanderbilt* (2) | 1. Southern Miss (15) |
| 2. Kansas State | 2. Alabama |
| 3. Louisville | 3. UConn |
| 4. Rider* | 4. Holy Cross* |
| Fayetteville, Ark. | Oxford, Miss. |
| 1. Arkansas (3) | 1. Ole Miss (14) |
| 2. Kansas | 2. TCU* |
| 3. Creighton* | 3. Stetson* |
| 4. Little Rock* | 4. North Dakota State* |
| Chapel Hill, N.C. | Knoxville, Tenn. |
| 1. North Carolina* (4) | 1. Tennessee (13) |
| 2. Oklahoma | 2. West Virginia |
| 3. Rhode Island* | 3. Miami (FL) |
| 4. Columbia* | 4. Miami (OH)* |
| Baton Rouge, La. | Clemson, S.C. |
| 1. LSU (5) | 1. Clemson (12) |
| 2. Dallas Baptist* | 2. UCLA |
| 3. Xavier | 3. Cincinnati |
| 4. Wright State* | 4. Bryant* |
| Athens, Ga. | Tallahassee, Fla. |
| 1. Georgia (6) | 1. Florida State (11) |
| 2. Wake Forest | 2. Northeastern* |
| 3. East Tennessee State* | 3. Mississippi State |
| 4. Utah Valley* | 4. Bethune-Cookman* |
| Auburn, Ala. | Conway. S.C. |
| 1. Auburn (7) | 1. Coastal Carolina* (10) |
| 2. Duke | 2. NC State |
| 3. Troy | 3. Kentucky |
| 4. Long Island* | 4. USC Upstate* |
| Eugene, Ore. | Corvallis, Ore. |
| 1. Oregon* (8) | 1. Oregon State (9) |
| 2. Arizona | 2. UC Irvine* |
| 3. Virginia | 3. Southern California |
| 4. Fresno State* | 4. Saint Mary’s* |
