The top five of the College Baseball Top 50 is the same, once again, with LSU leading the way followed by Wake Forest, Florida, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas. South Carolina, Campbell, ECU, Stanford, and Louisville round out the top ten. The Camels hit a new all-time high (7) for the third straight week. UNCW, Troy, UC Irvine, Texas State, Mississippi State, and Alabama enter the top 50. The SEC tops all conferences with 11 ranked teams, followed by the ACC (9), Pac-12 (6), Big 12 and Sun Belt (5), and Big Ten (tied at 4). This week, we've included RPI+ rankings for the top 25 teams (in grey, bottom left). RPI+ is a modified RPI statistic that is more predictive of postseason selection than RPI alone. See the full college baseball rankings below! Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content, including college baseball rankings!

There are no changes to the top eight of the College Baseball Top 50 with LSU staying at No. 1 after a 1-1 series split on the road a No. 6 South Carolina. Wake Forest, Florida, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas finish off the top five. Following South Carolina are Stanford, Virginia, Louisville, and Campbell. The Camels hit a new all-time high (10), just one week after reaching their previous all-time high (11). Notre Dame, Long Beach State, Duke, Elon, Louisiana, and Nebraska enter the top 50. The ACC tops all conferences with 10 ranked teams, followed by the SEC (9), Pac-12 (6), Big 12 (5), and Sun Belt and Big Ten (tied at 4). This week, we've included RPI+ rankings for the top 25 teams (in grey, bottom left). RPI+ is a modified RPI statistic that is more predictive of postseason selection than RPI alone. See the full college baseball rankings below! Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content, including college baseball rankings!

The cream is rising to the top We’re now over halfway through the regular season for college baseball and four weeks into the SEC slate and the top of the conference is beginning to stand out. Vanderbilt, South Carolina, and Florida appear to be the best teams in the SEC East, while Arkansas and LSU are leading things in the West. The bottom of the conference is a bit of a mess right now with a lot of teams still trying to find their groove. Florida (19-5, 9-3)-Tennessee (20-3, 5-7) Brandon Sproat out-dueled Chase Dollander in game one allowing just 1 earned run on 4 hits and 4 walks with 9 strikeouts in 5.2 innings. Josh Rivera, BT Riopelle, and Cade Kurland all went deep for Florida. Florida jumped on Chase Burns in game two scoring 5 runs in the first 2 innings. Wyatt Langford, Jac Caglianone, and Matt Prevesk added home runs later to cap off the 9-3 win. Hurston Waldrep went 7 innings giving up 3 earned runs on 5 hits and 2 walks with 9 strikeouts. It was Tennessee’s turn to break out the sticks as they scored 9 unanswered runs to begin game three on their way to a 14-2 win in 8 innings. Griffin Merritt was 3-4 with 6 RBI and 2 home runs. Drew Beam struck out 10 over 7 innings allowing just 2 earned runs on 4 hits and 1 walk. Tennessee will travel to face Arkansas next weekend, while Florida will host their rival in Georgia who is coming off a big series win over Kentucky. Kentucky (27-5, 9-3)-Georgia (18-14, 3-9) Georgia took a 4-0 lead in the sixth of game one, but then Kentucky responded with 7 unanswered runs to win 7-4. Ryan Waldschmidt was 3-5 with 2 runs and an RBI. Mason Moore pitched 3 perfect innings to close the game out. Liam Sullivan pitched a 7-inning complete game shutout in game two with 8 strikeouts as Georgia won 3-0. Parks Harber got things started early in game three with a 3-run homer in the first inning. Charlie Goldstein and Leighton Finley combined to allow just 5 hits and 1 walk with 9 strikeouts in a 7-inning game for Georgia as they won 6-2 to take the series. Georgia will try to continue their good pitching against a very good Florida offense next weekend. Kentucky got off to a hot start, but now they enter the meat of their schedule starting with LSU next weekend. LSU (26-5, 7-4)-South Carolina (28-4, 9-2) A big-time matchup between number one LSU and number six South Carolina was cut short this past weekend due to some bad weather that altered a lot of series. Game one saw both Paul Skenes and Will Sanders leave after 3 innings. Skenes had given up two runs on two home runs but had also struck out eight batters. Forcing Skenes to exit early seemed to be a huge benefit for South Carolina who would go on to win 13-5. Ethan Petry had 8 RBI thanks to a grand slam and a 2-run homer. South Carolina took a 7-3 lead into the 8th inning of game, but Gavin Dugas hit a grand slam to tie the game that inning. An inning later Cade Beloso had a hit up the middle to score Dylan Crews for the game-winning run. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a finale to this great series as game three was canceled. South Carolina faces another top five team next weekend in Vanderbilt, while LSU will host Kentucky. Vanderbilt (26-6, 11-1)-Missouri (20-11, 4-8) Vanderbilt hung on for a 7-6 win in game one of this series despite giving up 4 runs in the 7th inning. However, their SEC winning streak ended there as Missouri was able to score 2 runs in the bottom of the ninth of game two for the walk-off win. Matt Garcia had the 2-run single to win the game. Vanderbilt bounced back with a 5-0 win in game three with a great start from Devin Futrell going 7.1 innings with no runs, no walks, 5 hits, and 6 strikeouts. RJ Schreck had 2-4, 3 R, 2 RBI, 1 HR. Carter Holton was scratched from his start this weekend for Vanderbilt, which forced Bryce Cunningham into the rotation. Vanderbilt will host South Carolina next weekend in what will be a battle for the top spot in the SEC East. Missouri goes to Texas A&M. Texas A&M (20-12, 5-7)-Auburn (19-12-1, 3-9) Texas A&M got a much-needed series win on the road, taking two-of-three from Auburn. Trevor Werner broke up a 5-5 tie in the 7th inning of game one with a big three-run home run to help lift the Aggies to an eventual 9-5 win. Nathan Dettmer struck out 11 in 5.2 innings and Evan Aschenbeck finished things off tossing 3.1 scoreless innings. Cooper McMurray hit a pair of home runs for Auburn in game two to help lead them to a 10-9 win despite a 5 RBI effort from Jace LaViolette. Texas A&M scored 12 runs on 14 hits and 12 walks in game three to win 12-6 and take the series over Auburn. Brad Rudis, Brandyn Garcia, and Will Johnston finished off the game for Texas A&M not allowing a run in 6 innings with 11 strikeouts. The Aggie bats have finally gotten going and there are some arms in the bullpen they can now trust. Look for them to continue that momentum at home against Missouri next weekend. Auburn will be heading to Tuscaloosa with both teams coming bad series losses at home. Miss St. (19-14, 3-9)-Alabama (23-10, 4-8) With Ben Hess injured for Alabama, Garrett McMillian was thrust into the Thursday night start in what was essentially a bullpen game. Mississippi State outslugged Alabama for the 12-8 win. Ross Highfill led the Bulldogs going 3-5 with 4 RBI – three of them coming on a 7th inning home run. Luke Holman was great on the mound for Alabama in game two allowing just 1 earned run on 3 hits and 2 walks in 5.2 innings, which was plenty as the offense put up a 11-spot. Dominic Tamez drove in 4 on a pair of 2-run homers. Mississippi State scored 5 runs in the final three frames to take down Alabama in game three and win the series. The Bulldogs will try to carry that momentum back home as they face their rival next weekend. While Alabama stays at home to face its rival in Auburn. Arkansas (25-6, 8-4)-Ole Miss (18-13, 2-10) Hunter Hollan tossed 6 shutout innings and Brady Slavens drove in 5 runs as Arkansas beat Ole Miss 11-2 in game one. Hagan Smith moved back into the rotation this past weekend for Arkansas, but it didn’t quite work out as the Razorbacks lost game two 7-4. Ethan Lege was 3-3 with 4 RBI and a home run for Ole Miss. JT Quinn had a solid start for Ole Miss in game three striking out 8 batters in 5 innings, but Arkansas scored 2 in the 7th and 1 in the 8th to win the game 6-4 and take the series. Ole Miss goes to Starkville where the past two College World Series winners will face off – but now they battle for the last spot in the SEC West. Arkansas will host Tennessee in what should be a really fun matchup in Fayetteville. SEC Power Rankings Week 8 Tier 1 1. LSU 2. Vanderbilt 3. Florida 4. Arkansas 5. South Carolina Tier 2 6. Tennessee 7. Kentucky 8. Texas A&M (up two) Tier 3 9. Missouri (down one) 10. Alabama (down one) 11. Ole Miss 12. Auburn 13. Georgia 14. Mississippi State Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content!

We're halfway through the college baseball season, so it's time for field of 64 projection. The SEC leads all conferences with 11 teams projected to make the NCAA Tournament, followed by the ACC with eight teams. The Pac-12 and Big 12 are tied with five teams apiece, while the Sun Belt has four. Virginia Tech, Florida Atlantic, Texas A&M, and Louisiana are the last four teams in, while UC Irvine, Iowa, USC, and Georgia Tech are the first four teams out. Thanks for stopping by and checking out our College Baseball NCAA Tournament Field of 64 projections! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content!

Week three of conference play featured a marquee matchup in Baton Rouge between top-ranked LSU and Tennessee. There were a lot of matchups between ranked and unranked teams, giving some teams at the bottom of the conference a chance to make some noise. Ultimately, all of the ranked teams won their series this past weekend showing that separation between the top and the bottom of the SEC. LSU-Tennessee In what was one of the most anticipated series of the year, LSU got a big series win at home over Tennessee. It was also a highly anticipated pitching matchup, with Paul Skenes outdueling Chase Dollander in game one. Skenes lasted 7 innings giving up just 1 earned run on 5 hits and 1 walk with 12 strikeouts. Dollander gave up 2 earned runs on 4 hits and 3 walks with 3 strikeouts in 4.2 innings. Tennessee tied the game at 2 in the top of the 8th, but a costly 2-out error by the Volunteers in the bottom half eventually led to a bases-clearing double by Jordan Thompson to make it 5-2. LSU jumped on Tennessee starter Chase Burns early in game two with 4 doubles in the first inning to take a 3-1 lead. Zane Denton hit a 2-run homer in the 4th to momentarily put Tennessee on top, but LSU answered with back-to-back homers in the bottom half to regain the lead and ultimately win 6-4 to take the series. The Volunteers did not come away from the weekend empty handed as they scored 10 runs in the first 2 innings of game three on their way to a 14-7 victory. LSU has another tough task next weekend as they travel to face South Carolina, and things don’t get much easier for Tennessee as they host Florida. South Carolina-Mississippi State The Bulldogs got their first SEC win of the year, but they dropped the series at home to South Carolina. Cole Messina had a big 2-run homer for South Carolina in game one to break up a 3-3 tie in the top of the seventh to help lead the Gamecocks to a 6-4 win. In one of the bigger surprises of the year, Mississippi State run-ruled South Carolina and starter Noah Hall in game two with a 13-3 win. Hunter Hines had 4 hits, including a home run, while Slate Alford also had 4 hits but he had 2 home runs. The Gamecocks got some revenge in game three with a 14-5 win. The top four in South Carolina’s order (Braylen Wimmer, Gavin Casas, Ethan Petry, and Messina combined for 11 hits, 8 runs, and 11 RBI. Of note, Will Sanders was pulled from the South Carolina rotation and didn’t pitch at all this past weekend, but the team is saying he isn’t injured. South Carolina will host top-ranked LSU this weekend while Mississippi State will travel to Alabama. Alabama-Arkansas The Crimson Tide pounded out 22 hits in game one against Arkansas in a 12-1 win. Hagan Banks tossed 4 perfect innings in relief of Ben Hess striking out five. Game two of this series was a classic as the two sides exchanged blows throughout. Alabama took a 4-0 lead in the fourth inning, but Arkansas tied it up by the end of the sixth. Andrew Pickney homered in the 7th to give Alabama the lead again only to see Arkansas comeback in the bottom half with a big 2-RBI double by Tavian Josenberger. The Crimson Tide would tie it in the top of the 8th, but Arkansas would take the lead for good in the bottom half as they scored 3 runs. Game three was a tight one as well with both teams scoring 2 runs in the first inning. Alabama tied it at four in the top of the sixth, but a Parker Rowland RBI single in the bottom of half of the inning put Arkansas back on top for good with a 6-5 win. The Razorbacks will travel to Ole Miss next weekend while Alabama will try to get their first SEC series win of the year at home against Mississippi State. Vanderbilt-Georgia Vanderbilt remains the last undefeated team in SEC play after sweeping Georgia this past weekend. Georgia took a 2-0 lead early against Vanderbilt in game one, but then the Commodores scored nine unanswered for the 9-2 win. RJ Schrek and RJ Austin both drove in three while Carter Holton struck out 10 in 7 innings. Chris Maldonado led a 16 run output by Vanderbilt in their game two win with 3 runs, 3 hits, 3 RBI, and 2 walks. It was the pitching that led the way in game three as Devin Futrell tossed 8 scoreless innings allowing just 3 hits with 7 strikeouts in a 4-0 win. Maldonado continued his good weekend with 3 hits, including a home run. Vanderbilt will try to keep the streak alive next weekend against Missouri. Georgia will host a red hot Kentucky team. Kentucky-Missouri At some point you have to look at the success Kentucky is having this season and realize it’s for real – we’re at that point. Both of these teams were out to surprisingly good starts, but Kentucky showed they belong near the top of the SEC with a convincing series win on the road. They run-ruled Missouri in the first two games by scores of 12-2 and 10-0 with some impressive pitching. Darren Williams, Austin Strickland, Tyler Bosma, and Evan Byers combined to allow just 2 earned runs on 9 hits and 4 walks in 15 innings in the first two games. Hunter Gilliam had 5 hits and 6 RBI in those first two games to help lead the offense. The Wildcats used six pitchers in game three to hold Missouri to just 1 run despite issuing 9 walks. Grant Smith had the go-ahead hit in the fifth inning for Kentucky in a 3-1 win to seal the sweep. Kentucky will hope to continue their start in Athens this weekend where they’ll face a struggling Georgia team. Missouri will host a Vandy team that has looked like the best team in the country since conference play started. Auburn-Florida For the second straight weekend now Florida pitching gave up a lot of runs but still managed a series win thanks to a deadly offensive lineup. Auburn jumped on Brandon Sproat in game one knocking him out after just 1.1 innings and piling up 8 runs against him on their way to a 10-1 win. Ike Irish had a double, home run, and 4 RBI. Tanner Bauman was great in relief for the Tigers tossing 4 shutout innings allowing just 1 hit and 2 walks with 4 strikeouts to pick up the win. Jac Caglionone helped Florida answer in game two with a 2-run homer early and a 2-RBI triple late that helped break the game open and lift the Gators to a 12-5 win. Florida fell behind 8-3 in the third game, but then they scored 3, 2, 4, and 5 runs in the last four innings they batted for a 17-8 win. Luke Heyman had another good Sunday driving in 8 runs on 3 hits and 2 walks with a home run. The Gators travel to Knoxville next weekend in what figures to be an entertaining series with Tennessee. Auburn will host Texas A&M. Texas A&M-Ole Miss Thanks to a Ryan Targac walk-off home run in game three, Texas A&M got their first SEC series win of the year. Also in that game three, Evan Aschenbeck continued his great work out of the bullpen of late with 4 innings allowing just 1 earned run on 1 hit with no walks and 5 strikeouts. A Jace LaVioette grand slam in the 7th inning of game one helped Texas A&M to an 8-6 victory. Brett Minnich had a pair of solo home runs for the Aggies in that game as well. Ole Miss got their first SEC win of the year in game two as the offense scored 14 runs thanks in part to 11 walks by A&M pitching. The Aggies head to The Plains next weekend to battle for that third spot in the SEC West with Auburn. Ole Miss is one of three SEC teams with just one conference win, but now they host Arkansas this weekend with a chance to get back in the SEC West race. SEC Power Rankings Week 7 Tier 1 1. LSU 2. Vanderbilt (up one) 3. Florida (down one) 4. Arkansas Tier 2 5. South Carolina 6. Tennessee 7. Kentucky (up one) Tier 3 8. Missouri (down one) 9. Alabama (up one) 10. Texas A&M (up one) 11. Ole Miss (down two) 12. Auburn Tier 4 13. Georgia 14. Mississippi State Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content!

With the Texas Longhorns entering the weekend with the longest winning streak in the nation at 15 games, it is a good time to ask “is Texas back?” And a good place to get some help with the question was Stillwater, Oklahoma for a Big 12 Conference showdown where the question “can the Cowboys pitching help get them to Omaha” could also be evaluated. Texas made the trek north this weekend for just their second conference series of the season and the Cowboys’ second. Texas ace Lucas Gordon (3-0) got the Friday start and had Oklahoma State hitters pretty well bottled-up all night, yielding just two runs over seven innings. Ben Abram earned the Friday start for the Cowboys and was not bad, really, just allowing two big blows (two two-run home runs), but they were the difference in the ballgame. With the Longhorns trailing 1-0 in the top of the third inning, Garret Guillemette hit a blast 444 feet to straight away center field to put the Longhorns in front 2-1. Abram did not depart the game until he had recorded one out in the sixth inning. He was responsible for all five Texas runs, but his outing was solid against a hot Longhorns team. Drew Blake and Isaac Stebens handled the rest of the night for the Cowboys on the mound and they combined to limit Texas to one hit over 3 ⅔ innings while striking out three batters. Zane Morehouse (4) earned the save handling the final inning of work without allowing a hit and striking out one. Morehouse allowed a walk and made the situation feel interesting in a close game, but he closed out the 5-3 victory and helped Texas extend the win streak to 16 games. Asked after the Friday outing about staying calm in the pressure situations, Morehouse said, “I just take some breaths and re-focus.” But he also credited his teammates for helping him with the mental approach, “They help calm me down a little bit and make sure I’m breathing,” Morehouse said. “We work a lot on the mental game, so we’re really prepared for that.” Following the Friday night win, Texas head coach David Pierce appeared pleased and cautiously optimistic in what he saw out of Morehouse in the closer role. “Zane’s doing a really nice job of falling into that role and giving us that opportunity [to close games],” Pierce said. “He’s going to kill me though,” Pierce said jokingly. “It’s never…easy, but nothing in this league is easy.” Pierce added, “He did a great job of leaving the lead off double at second base.” Saturday night's low scoring 4-1 game did not feature a home run from either offense as the pitchers controlled the pace of play. Juaron Watts-Brown had a dominant outing for the ages on Saturday night to account for the lack of offense by Texas. Watts-Brown pitched eight innings and allowed just three hits while striking out 12 Texas batters, accounting for half of the 24 outs he recorded. Proving that he deserved all the preseason accolades he received prior to the season, Watts-Brown threw 128 pitches in his start to almost single-handedly end the Texas winning streak at 16 games in the 4-1 win. Travis Sthele took the loss for Texas as he gave up all four of the Oklahoma State runs over five innings. It was not a bad outing by Sthele, but he drew perhaps the toughest mound opponent possible in the three game series and suffered as a result. Four relievers followed Sthele to finish off the game. The Sunday rubber match brought early fireworks when Guillemette hit a three-run home run, his second home run of the weekend, in the game’s opening frame. It was also the last time Texas would score a run on Sunday. The Guillemette blast was also just one of the five total hits for the Longhorns in the game, with Porter Brown going 2-for-4 as the only Texas hitter with a multi-hit game. Oklahoma State starter Brian Hendry completed four innings before taking his exit; he settled down considerably after the first inning home run to turn in a nice performance. Once again, the combination of Blake and Stebens followed Hendry out of the bullpen to hold Texas scoreless. Blake threw four one-hit innings and Stebens closed out the Longhorns with a scoreless ninth inning to give the Cowboys a chance to grab the series win. Morehouse entered Sunday’s game in the bottom of the ninth inning needing three outs and protecting a 3-2 lead. After the leadoff batter flied out to right field, the Cowboys’ next three batters loaded the bases courtesy of a single followed by back-to-back walks. Nolan Schubart was the fifth batter to face Morehouse in the inning. The first pitch was wild and got past the catcher allowing the tying run to cross the plate. Schubart then lined a 2-2 pitch down the first base line past the drawn-in first baseman and the Cowboys were walk-off winners. Following the Sunday loss, Coach Pierce was pointed in what he saw over the weekend and what needs to be ironed out going forward. “When you play good teams you can’t afford to be one or two pitches away or not make a defensive play or whatever the case is, you have got to finish the job. We’ve got to be better at finishing the job, that's all there is to it,” Pierce said. The tale of the weekend, and of what the future might hold in terms of Omaha hopes for these two teams right now, might lie in the basic fact that Oklahoma State pitching only allowed Texas to score in four of 27 innings over the weekend. A fact that Oklahoma State head coach Josh Holliday pointed out after the Sunday series victory. “I think our pitching was exceptional,” Holliday said. “Exceptional growth in our pitching staff. 27 innings and only four frames did they score. That’s big time. This is a pitching staff that quite honestly we’ve never had to replace this many innings at one time and I think Coach [Rob] Walton is doing maybe the best job he’s done in a long, long time. He’s bringing a lot of new faces along in difficult situations and I thought this weekend our pitching was exceptional.” “Brian Hendry after the home run is the Brian Hendry we need,” said Holliday after Sunday's win. “Much more fierce, much more competitive.” Coach Holliday also spoke quite a bit about the Cowboys’ relief pitching at the conclusion of the series. “The boys from Stillwater High right across the street, Drew Blake and Isaac Stebens, Holliday said. “What else can you say about that kind of relief pitching and ground ball defense? There’s no chance for something special to happen.” Morehouse appears to have locked down the closer role for Texas, and with the possibility of Tanner Witt’s return this month, or at least by the end of the regular season, the Longhorns will have the luxury of trying new arms out of the bullpen to close games. Can these two teams reach Omaha? Yes. Experience over the next two months will help pave the way. Texas (20-9, 4-2) can hit the long ball and score in clusters, but they can also be slowed down, right now. One more hit in the key situations can make the difference between a series win or loss. At separate times, Texas hitters have been great, they will need multiple players to come up big in games from here on out, they have the hitters to do it. Likewise, the Oklahoma State (22-7, 6-3) pitching staff proved that if they get decent starts at the top, their bullpen can close out games from the sixth inning on. The Cowboys can also put games away with their ace on the mound and allow the bullpen to breathe easier for a night and be more ready when needed. Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content!

There are no changes to the top five of the College Baseball Top 50 after LSU, Wake Forest, Florida, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas each won their series over the weekend. South Carolina, Stanford, Virginia, North Carolina, and Boston College comprise the rest of the top ten. Boston College's No. 10 ranking is the highest in program history. Likewise, Campbell (11) and UConn (12) are also ranked at program highs. Virginia Tech, Arizona State, Indiana, Northeastern, Cal State Fullerton, and Sam Houston enter the top 50. The SEC tops all conferences with 12 ranked teams, followed by the ACC (8), Pac-12 (7), Big 12 (5), and Sun Belt (4). This week, we've included RPI+ rankings for the top 25 teams (in grey, bottom left). RPI+ is a modified RPI statistic that is more predictive of postseason selection than RPI alone. See the full college baseball rankings below! Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content, including college baseball rankings!

This weekend was the second weekend of Big 12 Conference action, but this week more teams were fully engaged in conference play as only one team did not play a conference game. Texas Tech at Texas The Texas Longhorns entered their first weekend of conference play having won 11 straight games, though not against the stiffest of competition. Meanwhile, Texas Tech was playing outside of Lubbock for only the second time this season, and the first time in three weeks since they played in the Shriners College Classic. Lucas Gordon gave Texas a quality start on Friday night, going 5 ⅓ innings before he ran into a bit of trouble. Zane Morehouse (3-0) was called in and all he did was toss 3 ⅔ innings of perfect baseball to stabilize the pitching game while the offense put the game away. Porter Brown delivered the big blow for Texas, a two-run home run in the sixth inning as the Longhorns pulled away on their way to 6-2 victory. The Longhorns and the Red Raiders were tied in the bottom of ninth inning of Saturday’s middle game. Once again, Brown (2-for-3) was in the right place at the right time. After reaching base on a double, Brown was balked over to third base before a wild pitch plated him and made Texas 6-5 game winners and series winners. On Sunday afternoon, for the second day in a row, the two squads entered the bottom of the ninth inning with a tied score. Garret Guillemette hammered the third pitch of the inning 407 feet to left field for a 9-8 walk-off win and series sweep. Texas Tech (2-4) continues to have trouble winning ball games away from Lubbock as they are now 1-2 on neutral fields, and 0-3 at opposing ballparks. While playing Texas (3-0) close all weekend, the Red Raiders leave Austin with no wins from the weekend series and more questions than answers right now. The sweep was only the fifth in the eleven-year tenure of Texas Tech head coach Tim Tadlock. Texas head coach David Pierce was happy with the sweep after Sunday’s game. Pierce spoke of specific work his team was doing coming into the weekend, and it speaks to a team that has identified weaknesses and tweaking those for the time on the calendar that matters. “Our batting practice was staying in the middle of the field, working on the inner third of the baseball,” Pierce said. “I like where our offense is, just competing and grinding out at-bats. It's a lot of fun to watch.” Texas has won 14 games in a row now and appears to have found what was missing early in the season as the new team and new coaching staff figure things out. The Longhorns are 18-7 overall and have played 19 of their 25 games at home where they are 17-2. Kansas at TCU TCU swept Kansas despite the Jayhawks having the Horned Frogs on the ropes in Friday’s opening game. The Bears had no difficulty with TCU ace Ryan Vanderhei forcing him out of the game with one out in the fifth inning having scored five runs off of the right-hander. With the Jayhawks leading 5-2 in the bottom of the sixth, the Horned Frogs rallied for four runs to take the lead. Kansas tied the game in the top of the eighth inning. In the bottom of the frame, Luke Boyers led things off with a triple and was brought across the plate by Tre Richardson, who himself would score the insurance run in the 8-6 TCU win. TCU made things look easy on Saturday with an 18-5 powered by Karson Bowen at the plate and seven terrific innings by Kole Klecker on the mound. The Horned Frogs completed the weekend sweep on Sunday by getting a complete game shutout by Cam Brown. TCU scored fourteen runs while Brown allowed just two hits to the Jayhawks. After the first two Kansas batters reached base, Brown proceeded to retire fifteen in a row. Baylor at Oklahoma State Oklahoma State swept Baylor over the weekend, but the task was not as simple as it sounds. Baylor staked out a 7-0 lead on Friday after a six-run third inning. The Cowboys put up a three-run frame and then matched the Bears six-run inning with one of their own in the fourth inning to take a 9-7 lead. Baylor tied the game in the top of the sixth inning and neither team would score again until Oklahoma State walked it off with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning on a Marcus Brown two-run home run. The Cowboys had an easier time of things on Saturday when they took a 15-8 victory, and even easier time on Sunday as they saved themselves a couple of innings by run-ruling Baylor 13-2 in seven innings to complete the sweep. Juaron Watts-Brown (3-1) got the win on Sunday as he went six strong innings and struck out thirteen. Oklahoma at Kansas State Kansas State (4-2) swept Oklahoma (2-4) in Manhattan, Kansas as the Sooners faltered after opening conference play with a series win over TCU in Norman. Left-hander Owen Boerema went the first six innings in Friday’s first game and Ty Ruhl went the final three innings. The two pitchers combined to allow Oklahoma just one run in a 7-1 victory. The Wildcats edged the Sooners in the final two games of the season 7-6 and 8-7 to finish the weekend sweep. West Virginia has yet to play a conference game this season, the only team in the Big 12 with that distinction. Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content!

Divisions in the SEC won’t mean much going forward, and while the SEC West has the two previous College World Series winners and top-ranked LSU Tigers, it’s the SEC East that looks like the better and deeper division so far in 2023. South Carolina and Vanderbilt are the only two remaining undefeated teams in the SEC after just two weeks. While those aforementioned previous CWS winners in Ole Miss and Mississippi State are the only two teams without a win. LSU and Arkansas are looking like the frontrunners in the SEC West and they faced off this past week in Baton Rouge. LSU-Arkansas Paul Skenes and Hunter Hollan locked horns in a great pitcher’s duel. The LSU ace struck out 12 in 7 innings allowing 1 earned run on 2 hits and 3 walks. He had just 4 walks all year coming into the start and then walked 3 batters in 1 inning. Hollan tossed 5.1 innings of scoreless baseball with 7 strikeouts before handing things over to Hagan Smith with a 1-run lead. LSU would tie it in the bottom of the eighth with a solo home run from Brady Neal. The game went to extras where Arkansas put up an 8-spot in the 10th to ultimately win 10-3 as Dylan Crews hit a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 10th. Smith finished game one striking out eight in 4.2 innings. Arkansas used their two best arms to get that game one win, but had nothing left the rest of the weekend as LSU won the next two games 12-2 and 14-5. Game 3 was 4-3 going into the bottom of the fourth when LSU put 6 runs on the board capped off by a 3-run homer from Tommy White. Crews continues to show why he should be the top pick in the MLB Draft collecting 8 hits on the weekend, scoring seven times, driving in seven, and he’s now hit a home run in four straight games giving him nine on the year. LSU has another big test at home next weekend facing Tennessee who got back on track with a sweep this past weekend. Arkansas heads back home to host Alabama. South Carolina-Missouri South Carolina got the sweep at home, but this was a very tight series. In game 1, South Carolina scored 4 runs in the bottom of the ninth to walk it off on a throwing error that went into the dugout. Despite the loss, Luke Mann had an incredible game for Missouri going 4-5 with 3 home runs and 6 RBI. Will McGillis had 4 RBI for the Gamecocks. Noah Hall shut down the Missouri offense in game two holding them to 1 earned run in 7 innings with 10 strikeouts. Gavin Casas (4-5, 1 HR) and Evan Stone (2-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI) provided the offense for South Carolina in the 8-1 win. The finale went 12 innings before Ethan Petry walked it off with a bases loaded single. Petry also had a big 2-run home run in the eighth inning to tie the game. Matthew Becker threw the last 3 innings for the Gamecocks without allowing a run and striking out five Tigers. South Carolina will take their undefeated SEC record to a struggling Mississippi State team this weekend. Missouri will try to pick themselves up against a red hot Kentucky team. Kentucky-Alabama While sweeping Mississippi State at home may not have put the Wildcats on the radar of many people, getting a road series win in Tuscaloosa is certainly impressive. This was another very tight series with Kentucky taking game one 4-3 in 12 innings. After taking an early 3-0 lead, Alabama tied it in the bottom of the 9th. What makes Kentucky so great is they take advantage of the little things in a game – walks, hit batters, wild pitches, sac bunts, etc.– and that’s how they won the opener, with a wild pitch. Ben Hess was great for Alabama in game one striking out 10 over 6.1 innings and allowing just 2 earned runs on 5 hits and a walk. Zach Hise and Ryan Hagenow tossed 3 scoreless, hitless innings for Kentucky in extra-innings. Kentucky continued to show their grit in game two by collecting 10 hits, 5 walks, 4 hit batters, and 4 stolen bases in a 9-5 win. Their bullpen also continued to shut things down as Jackson Nove and Hagenow combined for 3 scoreless innings with 5 strikeouts to close it out and prevent the comeback from Alabama. The Crimson Tide were finally able to complete a comeback in game three as Jim Jarvis scored on a wild play at the plate to tie it in the eighth. Then, Andrew Pickney delivered the go-ahead hit for the 4-3 win. Grayson Hitt had a good day on the mound for Alabama allowing just 1 earned run on 5 hits and 2 walks over 6 innings with 5 strikeouts. Kentucky is starting to look like a legitimate threat in the SEC, and now they go home to face another SEC team trying to prove they belong in Missouri. Alabama salvaged the weekend, but now they have to go on the road to face Arkansas. Tennessee-Texas A&M Texas A&M didn’t make it easy for Tennessee this past weekend, but the Volunteers looked much more comfortable at home coming away with the sweep. Tennessee scored 7 runs in the first 2 innings of game one, which was plenty for Chase Dollander who went 6.2 innings with 8 strikeouts. The Volunteers had to come from behind in game two scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie it and then walk it off in the ninth for an 8-7 win. It was the Zane Denton show in game three as he went 3-3 with 2 home runs and 5 RBI in the 9-6 win. Texas A&M scored some runs late to make the score a little more respectable. While Tennessee does get the much-needed sweep at home, it was the second weekend in a row where their vaunted starting pitching didn’t look invincible. Now they travel to Baton Rouge to face one of the best lineups in all of baseball and the number one team in the country in LSU. Texas A&M is off to a rough start, but so is their next SEC opponent in Ole Miss, in the friendly confines of Olsen Field. Florida-Ole Miss On a weekend where the Florida starting rotation had some hiccups, their offense proved powerful enough to overcome it scoring 28 runs in their sweep over Ole Miss. In game one the Gators had to comeback scoring 4 runs in the 8th and 2 in the 9th. Cade Kurland had the big hit in the eighth with a bases clearing double to take the lead. Jac Caglianone continued his home run barrage going deep twice in game one. He and Wyatt Langford – who returned from injury this past weekend – both homered in game two leading Florida to a 12-8 win. BT Riopelle had a big day as well, going 2-4 with a home run, a triple, and 3 RBI. Kurland continues to hit for the Gators as he went 3-5 in a 7-4 win in game three with 4 RBI. Luke Heyman hit a couple of home runs, and so did Cags, who finished the weekend with 7 hits, 4 runs, 5 RBI, and 4 home runs. Florida will host Auburn next weekend while Ole Miss will try to get their first SEC win of the year at Texas A&M. Vanderbilt-MSU Mississippi State is fully on the struggle bus, but don’t let that take away from the fact Vanderbilt’s offense has hit another gear since conference play started. They scored 55 runs in their sweep over the Bulldogs this past weekend … FIFTY-FIVE! Parker Noland had the game of his life in game one driving in 11 runs on 5 hits, while RJ Schreck drove in a meager 8 runs with a pair of home runs in a 26-3 win. So that they could get a full 9 innings in, Vanderbilt waited until the ninth inning to break it out scoring 9 runs in the frame for an 18-5 win. Davis Diaz drove in 4 runs and Enrique Bradfield Jr. went 3-4 with 3 RBI, 2 BB, and 2 SB. Game three was a little more competitive with Vanderbilt winning 11-7. Diaz had another good game going 2-3 with 3 runs and 3 RBI. Mississippi State gets a second straight weekend at home to try and get their first SEC win, but they’re going up against a hot South Carolina team who is undefeated in conference play and is great at finding ways to win. Vanderbilt will put their undefeated conference record on the line at home next weekend against Georgia. Auburn-UGA Both teams came into the weekend desperately needing a series victory, and it was the home team Auburn that got it done. It looked like Georgia was going to take the advantage in game one before Auburn scored 3 runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie it and then later walked it off on a bases loaded walk. Bryson Ware had a home run and 3 RBI in the first game. Justin Kirby hit a big 3-run home run for Auburn in the sixth to give them a 5-3 lead. They eventually went on to win 6-3 to clinch the series. Georgia survived the road series with a big 24-7 win in game three thanks in part to a 16-run top of the eighth. Parks Harber was 5-6 with 4 runs, 5 RBI, 1 HR, and 2 doubles. Will David had 4 hits, Mason LaPlante had 5 RBI, and Connor Tate had a pair of home runs for Georgia in the win. Both teams face difficult road tests next weekend with Auburn going to Florida and Georgia traveling to Vanderbilt. SEC Power Rankings Week 6 Tier 1 1. LSU 2. Florida 3. Vanderbilt Tier 2 4. Arkansas 5. South Carolina 6. Tennessee Tier 3 7. Missouri (up 1) 8. Kentucky (up 4) 9. Ole Miss (down 2) 10. Alabama (down 1) 11. Texas A&M (down 1) Tier 4 12. Auburn (up 1) 13. Georgia (down 2) 14. Mississippi State Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content!

LSU knocked off Arkansas over the weekend and stays at No. 1 in the College Baseball Top 50. Wake Forest and Florida notched sweeps over Miami and Ole Miss, respectively, and maintain their No. 2 and No. 3 positions. Vanderbilt and Arkansas finish off the top five. ECU climbs to No. 6, its highest ever ranking in the College Baseball Top 50. Stanford, Virginia, South Carolina, and Louisville round out the top ten. Washington, USC, Georgia Tech, DBU, and Notre Dame enter the top 50. The SEC tops all conferences with 13 ranked teams, followed by the ACC (9), Pac-12 (6) and finally the Big 12 and Sun Belt (5). This week, we've included RPI+ rankings for the top 25 teams (in grey, bottom left). RPI+ is a modified RPI statistic that is more predictive of postseason selection than RPI alone. See the full college baseball rankings below! Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content, including college baseball rankings!

Half of the Big 12 Conference opened its limited conference schedule this weekend, and the premier series featured Oklahoma State (15-3) as the Cowboys made their way to Lubbock this weekend to face Texas Tech (16-3). Texas Tech was sporting their St. Patrick’s Day green caps and socks on Friday night, an unusual if distinguished look as the green clashed with the black and red of the pants and jerseys. The Cowboys were the team that came out guns blazing to start the game though, scoring two runs in the opening inning and forcing Texas Tech to the bullpen in the fourth inning as they tagged starter Brendan Girton for six runs over 3 2/3 innings. Oklahoma State built a 7-1 lead and seemed in control of things in Lubbock. But Texas Tech rallied for a big eighth inning to tie the game at seven. The Red Raiders played small ball in the frame, taking advantage of walks, a batter hit-by-pitch, and hits no greater than a single to plate four runs. The game moved into extra innings after neither team accomplished anything in the ninth. With two outs in the bottom of the tenth inning, Gavin Kash hit an opposite field drive deep into the left field corner that seemed like it was going to be caught, but left-fielder Nolan Schubart simply over-ran the ball as it fell into fair territory behind him to allow Kevin Bazzell to score the winning run easily from second base. Texas Tech head coach Tim Tadlock was happy for the Friday night win after the game, but he was quick to downplay the game's final play. “He [Kash] hit it high, don’t get me wrong, but usually those get caught.” This one was not caught and Texas Tech escaped with an 8-7 victory. Nolan McLean suffered the tough-luck loss to fall to 0-1 on the season, though he entered the weekend in a two-way tie nationally in saves. Oklahoma State got a measure of revenge on Saturday when they once again grabbed the lead, but this time they did not surrender it. Baseballs were flying out of Rip Griffin Park in Lubbock as the two teams combined for seven home runs in the contest, two of them by Cowboys designated-hitter Tyler Wulfert. Three of the four Texas Tech runs came via solo home runs. Red Raiders lefty Mason Molina (2-1) suffered the loss, going 5 1/3 innings and allowing just three runs. His counterpart, Ben Abram (3-0), was extremely effective in his spot start, allowing just one run over six innings to remain perfect on the year. A five-run eighth inning for the Cowboys was the difference as they distanced themselves from the Red Raiders, the big blow coming off the bat of Roc Riggio who hit a three-run home run to center field. A ninth inning rally by Texas Tech added a run to their tally, but they still came up short in the middle game with a 9-4 loss, which also snapped their six-game winning streak against Oklahoma State. Sunday's deciding game got a jolt when Oklahoma State announced that Juaron Watts-Brown, who was supposed to start for the Cowboys on Saturday but had been scratched, would make the mound start. Taber Fast took the mound for the Red Raiders and paced the team over 3 2/3 innings allowing just one run. Fast was followed by Brandon Beckel (3-0) who tossed a scoreless 2 1/3 innings. The Red Raiders offense, already leading 2-1, exploded for ten runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Austin Green hit a grand slam for a 6-1 lead. Right-fielder Damian Bravo followed a few batters later with a two-run blast of his own to chase Watts-Brown (2-1) as he was right at 100 pitches. Green added a two-out RBI double later in the frame, his fifth RBI of the inning, the final run of the inning for Texas Tech as they took a 12-2 lead. The game ended via the run-rule after the seventh inning. Around the rest of the Big 12 this weekend, Oklahoma hosted TCU and took the series 2-1 despite losing a lopsided opening game 13-5; Kansas State trekked down to Waco and dropped their series to Baylor 2-1, losing two games by the same score, 8-4. Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Baylor stand at 2-1 after the first weekend of conference play, while Kansas State, Oklahoma State, and TCU are all at 1-2. Kansas, Texas, and West Virginia did not play conference games this weekend. Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content!

While it’s just been one weekend of conference play in the SEC, everything points to this being the deepest the league has ever been – and that’s saying something. Missouri, picked to finish last in the SEC East, swept Tennessee this past weekend showing they are a real force this year. Vanderbilt also made a loud statement this past weekend sweeping the defending College World Series champions in dominating fashion. There is a long way to go in the SEC season, but with the number of good teams in the conference it’s important to get off to a good start and even more important to not get buried early in the season. Is Mizzou for real? Going all the way back to week one when Missouri had a strong showing at the College Baseball Showdown, there was optimism that this team could be for real, but we wanted to see what happened once they got into conference play. Sweeping the second-ranked Volunteers at home while giving up just 6 total runs in the three games is pretty convincing that they are for real. Weather was a huge factor in this series with temperatures close to freezing and strong winds. The teams played a 7-inning double-header on Sunday as a result. Chandler Murphy and Rorik Maltrud combined to allow just 1 earned run on 3 hits and 2 walks with 10 strikeouts on Friday, while Dalton Bargo had a pair of hits and 2 RBI. Bargo had 2 more hits, including a home run, and 2 RBI in the first game of the double-header on Sunday – a 7-4 win for Missouri. Missouri finished the sweep with a 7-1 win. Austin Troesser, Tony Neubeck, and Maltrud combined to allow just 1 hit to the Tennessee offense with 12 strikeouts in 7 innings. There are certainly some concerns with the Tennessee offense that has yet to reach its potential. Perhaps even more concerning is that Chase Dollander and Chase Burns combined to allow 13 runs on the weekend. We’ll see how the Volunteers respond back at home next weekend against Texas A&M. Missouri will head to South Carolina who had an equally impressive sweep over the weekend. Vandy’s bats unleash in sweep over defending champs The one perceived weakness for Vanderbilt through the first four weeks were the bats. Just a weekend ago they only scored 10 total runs in three games against Loyola Marymount. Those concerns have been tempered, for the moment, after an impressive weekend sweep against Ole Miss in which they scored a total of 27 runs. The pitching remains great as they only allowed 4 runs all weekend to a powerful Ole Miss lineup. Carter Holton pitched 6 strong innings in game one, while RJ Schreck, Parker Noland, and Matthew Polk all drove in 3 runs. Hunter Owen tossed a complete game shutout in game two allowing just 2 hits and a walk with 11 strikeouts. Enrique Bradfield Jr. had 3 hits and scored 2 runs, while RJ Austin drove in four. Ole Miss showed their power in the finale with home runs by Jacob Gonzalez and Calvin Harris to give them an early 2-0 lead. Then, Vanderbilt scored the final 7 runs of the game for the win and sweep. This time it was Jack Bulger for the Commodores, who led the offense with 2 hits, a home run, and 3 RBI. Ole Miss may finally be feeling the effects of losing Friday night starter Hunter Elliott, but their offense should be good enough to keep them competitive in the SEC. Vandy has a good chance to continue its hot streak against a struggling Mississippi State next weekend, while it doesn’t get any easier for Ole Miss facing Florida’s rotation. LSU starts SEC play with solid road series win Playing on the road in the SEC is not an easy task, so winning a series at Texas A&M is a solid start to conference play for the top-ranked Tigers of LSU. However, you kind of walk away from that series thinking they could have done more. Friday night is almost a guaranteed win for LSU right now with the way Paul Skenes is pitching. He’s looking like the best pitcher in all of college baseball and perhaps the top pick in the upcoming MLB Draft. He struck out 11 batters over 6.1 scoreless innings without walking a batter and only giving up 4 hits leading LSU to a 9-0 win in game one. Dylan Crews, another LSU candidate to go first overall in the draft, had 2 hits, 2 walks, and 3 runs scored. Tommy White drove in three. Texas A&M took a 4-0 lead in game two before LSU broke out with a 6-run fourth inning followed by a pair of 3-run innings later in the game before winning 12-7. This game was pretty ugly on the mound as the two teams combined for 17 walks – 11 by A&M pitching. White had another big game with 3 hits, 3 runs, and 3 RBI. Jared Jones drove in seven on 4 hits, including a 3-run homer. In the finale it was A&M’s turn for a comeback after LSU posted a four spot in the top of the first. The Aggies chipped away before having their own 4-run inning in the 8th to win 8-6. Stanley Tucker had the big 2 RBI single to give Texas A&M the lead. Will Johnston was great out of the bullpen to close out the game for the Aggies allowing just 1 hit with no walks and 3 strikeouts in the final 3 innings. LSU gets Arkansas at home next weekend while Texas A&M goes to Knoxville to face an angry Tennessee team who just got swept. Time to take these Gamecocks seriously There was some hype on South Carolina coming into the season, but that hype is about to go through the roof after going on the road to sweep Georgia. Game one of this series was perhaps the best game of the weekend with Will Sanders and Jaden Woods each going 7 innings. Woods struck out 11 and left with his Georgia Bulldogs leading 4-3. Then, Michael Braswell had a huge two-strike pinch-hit double in the top of the 9th to give South Carolina the lead for good with a 5-4 win. The rest of the weekend was complete domination by South Carolina as they run-ruled Georgia 12-2 and 12-1 in the next two games. Noah Hall tossed a 7-inning complete game in game two. Ethan Petry was 4-4 at the plate with 2 home runs and 5 RBI. Will McGillis and Gavin Casas each homered twice in the finale as Jack Mahoney tossed 6 solid innings. Now, South Carolina will go home to face another sleeper in the SEC East coming off a big sweep in Missouri. Meanwhile, Georgia will go to Auburn for a huge rivalry matchup between teams who both got swept during the first weekend of SEC play. Gators win compelling series over Alabama In what was perhaps the best played series of the weekend, Florida came away with a good series win. But Alabama was impressive in the loss and could be a team to watch going forward. Brandon Sproat was nearly unhittable in game one of this series tossing a complete game shutout allowing just 1 hit and 2 walks with 11 strikeouts. The Gators needed it as Bama got some great pitching as well from Hagan Banks and Hunter Furtado. Cade Kurland hit a big 2-run homer in the 6th and Florida added one more in the seventh for a 3-0 win. Game two of this series was a back-and-forth contest that saw each team swap 3-run homers in the first inning. Bama took a 5-3 lead in the 5th. Florida tied it up in the 6th. The Tide went back up 6-5 in the 7th, but the Gators tied it in the bottom half. Once again, Alabama took a one-run lead in the eighth. Colby Halter led off the bottom of the ninth with a game-tying home run. Three straight batters then reached to load the bases for this walk-off dribbler by Josh Rivera. Florida really showed off its power in game two with four home runs that really kept them in the game. Kurland, Rivera, BT Riopelle, and Halter all went deep. Game three was another tight contest, but this time Alabama held on for the 6-3 win with a Caden Rose 2-run homer in the eighth creating some insurance. Kade Woods was able to shut the door for the Crimson Tide, not allowing a hit or a walk over the final 2.2 innings with 7 strikeouts. Alabama goes home to face a hot Kentucky team who is coming off a sweep of Mississippi State. Florida goes on the road to face the defending CWS champions who were just swept. Arkansas somehow flying under the radar The Razorbacks have been a perennial powerhouse in college baseball, but they seem to be an afterthought in this year’s SEC class with a ton of talk about LSU, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and Florida at the top. But after sweeping Auburn this past weekend, they are now 18-2 on the season with quality wins over Texas, Oklahoma State, Louisiana Tech, and now Auburn. As for Auburn, they’re really struggling right now without Joseph Gonzalez in the starting rotation and Bobby Pierce in the lineup. They were never really in any of these three games as Arkansas won 7-2, 9-3, and 5-0. Interesting to note, Hagan Smith had been the team’s Friday starter for the first four weeks but Dave Van Horn used him out of the bullpen this past weekend. Smith pitched 3 hitless innings with 5 strikeouts to finish game one and then pitched the final 0.2 innings of game three. It didn’t seem to affect the starting rotation as Hunter Hollan, Will McEntire, and Cody Adcock each went 6 innings. Kendall Diggs, Brady Slavens, and Jared Wegner had good weekends at the plate for Arkansas. Wegner hit a home run that still hasn’t landed yet. The Razorbacks can really grab some national attention if they can take down top-ranked LSU in Baton Rouge next weekend. Auburn will face Georgia at home with both teams searching for their first SEC win. Is Kentucky that good or Mississippi State that bad? In the battle for the basement (as I had both Kentucky and Mississippi State ranked at the bottom of last week’s SEC Power Rankings) it was the Wildcats playing at home who pretty clearly looked like the better team getting the sweep. Similar to the South Carolina-Georgia series, game one was close with Kentucky getting a walk-off 6-5 win in 10 innings. But then Kentucky dominated the rest of the weekend with 12-3 and 17-3 wins. Game one ended in the worst way possible for Mississippi State as the winning run scored on a 2-out, 2-strike wild pitch. Hunter Hines gave Mississippi State a 3-0 lead in game two with a pair of home runs in the first four innings. But then Kentucky scored 12 unanswered and Ryan Hagenow finished off the game on the mound with 4.1 scoreless innings allowing 1 hit, no walks, and 5 strikeouts. Despite allowing 8 walks and 7 hits in game three, Kentucky pitching only allowed 3 runs (2 earned). Which was plenty as the offense unloaded with 17 runs led by leadoff man Jackson Gray who was 4-5 with 3 runs and 3 RBI. Next weekend should be an interesting series as Kentucky goes to Tuscaloosa to face Alabama with both teams trying to show they should move up a tier in the conference. Mississippi State has some solid bats in guys like Amani Larry, Hines, and Kellum Clark. They’ll have to figure out their pitching quick as they host Vanderbilt next weekend. SEC Power Rankings Week 5 Tier 1 1. LSU 2. Florida (up one) 3. Vanderbilt (up two) 4. Arkansas (up two) Tier 2 5. South Carolina (up 2) 6. Tennessee (down 4) 7. Ole Miss (down 3) 8. Missouri (up 3) Tier 3 9. Alabama (up 1) 10. Texas A&M (down 2) Tier 4 11. Georgia (down 2) 12. Kentucky (up 2) Tier 5 13. Auburn (down 1) 14. Mississippi State (down 1) Thanks for stopping by! Follow us on Twitter and on Instagram to keep up with all of our content!