North Carolina, Missouri, Witchita State, and Oklahoma are all overated IMHO.Colleigiate Baeball wrote: Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's
NCAA Div. I Pre-Season Poll
(As of Dec. 23, 2005)
Rank School ('05 Final Record) Points Final '05 Rank
1. Texas (56-16) 496 1
2. Florida (48-23) 492 2
3. Oregon St. (46-12) 490 7
4. Nebraska (57-15) 489 6
5. Rice (45-19) 487 16
6. Clemson (43-23) 484 13
7. North Carolina (41-19-1) 482 21
8. Florida St. (53-20) 479 15
9. Cal. St. Fullerton (46-18) 476 9
10. Georgia Tech. (45-19) 475 10
11. Miami, Fla. (41-19-1) 473 14
12. Arizona St. (42-25) 470 3
13. Pepperdine (41-23) 469 23
14. Missouri (40-23) 467 -
15. Louisiana St. (40-22) 466 19
16. Long Beach St. (37-22) 463 18
17. South Carolina (41-23) 461 26
18. Florida Atlantic (37-24) 459 -
19. Tennessee (46-21) 458 8
20. Mississippi (48-20) 456 11
21. Southern California (41-22) 455 17
22. Notre Dame (38-24-1) 453 -
23. Baylor (46-24) 450 4
24. Tulane (56-12) 449 5
25. Stanford (34-25) 447 -
26. Wichita St. (51-24) 444 27
27. Texas Christian (41-20) 443 29
28. Winthrop (44-22) 440 -
29. Oklahoma (35-26) 438 -
30. Southern Miss. (41-21) 435 -
31. Arizona (39-21) 434 12
32. Houston (29-30) 430 -
33. Arkansas (39-22) 428 -
34. Mississippi St. (42-22) 427 -
35. San Francisco (38-18) 425 -
36. San Diego (30-27-1) 422 -
37. Stetson (35-28) 419 -
38. Washington (33-22) 415 -
39. Georgia (30-25) 413 -
40. Fresno St. (30-29) 409 -
Other Teams Receiving Votes: Cal Poly SLO, Vanderbilt, Alabama, Auburn, California, UCLA, Ohio St., North Carolina St., Coastal Carolina, Louisville, U.C. Irvine, Virginia Commonwealth, Miami (Ohio), Oral Roberts, Central Florida, East Carolina, Central Michigan, Southern Illinois, Nevada-Las Vegas, San Diego St., Maine, Birmingham Southern, Jacksonville St., South Alabama, Louisiana-Lafayette, Troy, Florida International, Loyola Marymouht, Army, College of Charleston, Georgia Southern, N.C. Charlotte, Richmond, Western Carolina, Northwestern St., Lamar, Southern.
Mississippi, Baylor, Alabama, and College of Charleston are all under rated.
Can't really argue with Texass being number 1; they certainly deserve it. Oregon State I reserve judgement on after shoving my foot in my mouth on them last year; I just don't buy the hype but left them out of the over rated catagory because of all the crow I swallowed last year.