Texas baseball ranking: Where Longhorns sit in polls after statement sweep of Georgia

Texas baseball narrowly missed out on its first No. 1 ranking of the Jim Schlossnagle era, coming in at No. 2 in the D1 Baseball and Baseball America polls that were released on Monday morning.

The Longhorns are looking up only at Arkansas, which will host Texas for a three-game series beginning on May 1. Texas heads to Kentucky for its SEC series this weekend, while the Razorbacks travel to Georgia.

Texas moved up three spots from No. 5 after a 3-1 week that began with a midweek loss to Texas State but concluded with an impressive sweep of Georgia, which came into the series ranked third in the country.

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The Longhorns, playing without key lineup fixtures Max Belyeu and Adrian Rodriguez, relied on their pitching staff to limit one of the most potent offenses in college baseball. The Bulldogs entered the weekend scoring more than 10 runs per game, on average, but managed only eight runs across the three games.

Texas also benefitted from some help from Texas A&M, which took two out of three games from previously top-ranked Tennessee to move the Volunteers below the Longhorns. Florida State, ranked No. 4 last week, took two run-rule losses to Wake Forest over the weekend.

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Here’s a full look at the polls:

Texas in the college baseball rankings

D1 Baseball Poll

1. Arkansas
2. Texas
3. LSU
4. Clemson
5. Tennessee
6. Ole Miss
7. Georgia
8. Oregon State
9. Florida State
10. UCLA
11. Auburn
12. Alabama
13. UC Irvine
14. Louisville
15. Oregon
16. North Carolina
17. Vanderbilt
18. Georgia Tech
19. Oklahoma
20. Troy
21. Coastal Carolina
22. Kansas
23. Southern Miss
24. Arizona
25. Virginia Tech

Baseball America Poll

1. Arkansas
2. Texas
3. LSU
4. Tennessee
5. Clemson
6. Georgia
7. Ole Miss
8. North Carolina
9. Auburn
10. Oregon State
11. Louisville
12. Wake Forest
13. Florida State
14. Alabama
15. Vanderbilt
16. Oklahoma
17. UCLA
18. UC Irvine
19. Kansas
20. Georgia Tech
21. Troy
22. Arizona
23. Oregon
24. TCU
25. Western Kentucky

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