Tennessee baseball dropped in all five major college baseball polls coming off its series loss to Kentucky over the weekend. UT combined to score just three runs on nine hits to lose games two and three, after winning the opener on Friday night, 8-2.
The National College Baseball Writers Association dropped the Vols one spot, D1Baseball and Perfect Game dropped them two spots, and Baseball America and the Coaches poll dropped them three spots.
“Texas remains No. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 for the second straight week after sweeping a top-10 series against Auburn,” D1Baseball wrote. “LSU is back up two spots this week to No. 7 after taking a series from ranked Alabama. Georgia falls five spots to No. 10 after getting swept by Vanderbilt, which leaps 10 spots to No. 9. And Auburn slips three spots to No. 11 after the Texas series loss.
“Clemson moves up a spot to No. 2 after taking a series from Louisville, which falls two spots to No. 19. Oregon State jumps to No. 3 after a 4-0 week that included a midweek road win at UCLA. And Florida State slides up three spots to No. 4 despite playing just one Tuesday game this week, a product of three teams ranked ahead of the Seminoles losing their weekends: Arkansas (down three spots to No. 5), Tennessee (down two to No. 6), and aforementioned Georgia.”
10 SEC teams are ranked by D1Baseball for the third consecutive week. Joining Tennessee in D1Poll’s is Texas (No. 1), Arkansas (No. 5), LSU (No. 7), Vanderbilt (No. 9), Georgia (No. 10), Auburn (No. 11), Oklahoma (No. 14), Alabama (No. 18) and Ole Miss (No. 23).
“No. 7 Tennessee (33-7) all drop in the poll after losing their weekend series’ but remain in the Top-10 due to their body of work,” Perfect Game added.
Here’s where the Volunteers are ranked coming off their second SEC series loss in over a year.
National College Baseball Writers Association: No. 4 (-1)
Baseball America: No. 5 (-3)
USA TODAY Coaches Poll: No. 6 (-3)
D1Baseball: No. 6 (-2)
Perfect Game: No. 7 (-2)
Up Next
Tennessee will be back in action on Tuesday night when it hosts in-state foe Lipscomb. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. ET on SEC Network+.
The Vols will continue SEC play when they begin a three-game series at LSU next weekend. First pitch next Friday is set for 7:30 p.m. ET (SEC Network+), while game two will begin at 6 p.m. (ESPNU) and the series finale will start at 3 p.m. (SEC Network).
“There’s plenty of things you can analyze, we need to get better,” Tony Vitello said following the series loss to Kentucky. “It’s like the doctor can prescribe you what to do to rehab something, but then you have to do it. So it’s up to us to point out some things that need to improve. And then at this point in the season, a lot of what’s gonna go on with Florida State’s program, Kentucky’s, ours, Oregon’s, whoever; is gonna be the decision that the kids make.”
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