Rankings unanimous on Miami, UNC at top
The four major rankings for college baseball are in agreement on the top two teams in the nation, and are pretty much in agreement on the top six.
Miami (Fla.) and North Carolina are the leaders in the polls run by Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, USA Today/ESPN and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. After that, each of the four polls likes Florida State, Arizona State, Rice and Nebraska in some particular order.
After that, only Texas A&M and Oklahoma State are ranked in the top 10 of all four rankings. Georgia and San Diego are both in the top 10 in three of the four, while Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine earned top 10 rankings in Baseball America and the NCBWA rankings, respectively.
College Baseball Insider, which takes the composite of all four rankings to rank its top 20, has Miami and North Carolina at the top, with Florida State and Arizona State tied for third. Rice is fifth, followed by Nebraska, Texas A&M, Georgia, Oklahoma State and San Diego. The second 10 includes Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine, Missouri, Vanderbilt and Cal tied at 14, Stanford, Michigan, Wichita State, Coastal Carolina and LSU.
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