It's The Most Wonderful Time, of the Year

The new year can only mean one thing – baseball season is ready to get into full swing.

I don’t care what they say about Christmas being the most wonderful time, for a baseball fan this is the most wonderful time.

With a new season comes a new poll. For new readers, the only poll I trust and use throughout the season is the poll provided by the writers at Collegiate Baseball. Baseball America plays favorites with some schools and tends to skew its rankings toward said schools.

They recently released an expanded poll, the Top 40 teams in the 2007 preseason, and here it is.

I will break down the poll in 10s, so 1-10 will be by the end of the week, 11-20 will be next and so on and so forth.


Rank School (’06 Final Record) Points Final ’06 Rank
1. Rice (57-13) 497 3
2. Clemson (53-16) 492 5
3. South Carolina (41-25) 490 12
4. Arkansas (39-21) 488 25
5. North Carolina (54-15) 487 2
6. Miami, Fla. (42-24) 483 6
7. Texas (41-21) 482 17
8. Vanderbilt (38-27) 479 —
9. Nebraska (42-17) 477 22
10. Virginia (47-15) 474 20
11. Georgia Tech. (50-18) 472 8
12. Cal. St. Fullerton (50-15) 469 4
13. Florida St. (42-21) 467 24
14. Arizona St. (37-21) 464 —
15. Texas Christian (39-23) 462 —
16. Tulane (43-21) 459 27
17. Wichita St. (46-22) 456 —
18. Tennessee (31-24) 453 —
19. Pepperdine (42-21) 450 30
20. Mississippi (44-22) 448 11
21. Baylor (37-26) 447 26
22. Georgia (47-23) 444 7
23. Stanford (33-27) 441 15
24. Oklahoma St. (41-20) 438 23
25. Southern California (25-33) 435 —
26. UCLA (33-25) 433 —
27. Arizona (27-28) 431 —
28. Evansville (43-22) 429 19
29. Oral Roberts (41-16) 426 14
30. Long Beach St. (29-27) 424 —
31. Louisiana St. (35-24) 421 —
32. Mississippi St. (37-23) 420 —
33. Houston (39-22) 417 21
34. Oklahoma (45-22) 414 10
35. Troy (47-16) 412 —
36. San Francisco (39-23) 409 —
37. Winthrop (46-18) 407 —
38. Michigan (43-21) 406 —
39. Notre Dame (45-17-1) 403 —
40. Ohio St. (37-21) 401 —

Other Teams Receiving Votes: Oregon St., Kentucky, Florida, Alabama, Auburn, Hawaii, McNeese St., Missouri St., Jacksonville, Maine, North Carolina St., Wake Forest, U.C. Irvine, Fresno St., San Jose St., Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Missouri, San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Santa Clara, Florida Atlantic, Louisiana-Lafayette, South Alabama, Stetson, North Florida, Washington, Washington St., California, Western Carolina, College of Charleston, Rhode Island, Louisville, Minnesota, Cal. Poly-SLO, U.C. Riverside, Old Dominion, Southern Mississippi, East Carolina, Memphis, Central Michigan, Kent St., Ball St., Creighton, San Diego St., Samford, Army.