College baseball rankings, polls after Week 5: UCLA still No. 1, Florida tumbles
UCLA remains No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports baseball poll, while West Virginia and Mississippi gained ground. Florida were among the teams falling back.
The attention of college sports fans may be distracted by March Madness, but there's been some significant results in college baseball in the past week which results in changes to the rankings released Monday, March 23. UCLA maintains the No. 1 spot in the USA TODAY Sports baseball poll after a week where the Bruins improved to 21-2 with a defeat of Pepperdine and a weekend sweep of Big 12 opponent Maryland.
Texas, which took two of three games at Auburn, and Georgia Tech hold steady at second and third. There were changes in the top five, however, with Mississippi State up to fourth after Georgia dropped two places to No. 7 and Auburn fell back one spot to fifth.
Florida State and Oklahoma flipped positions at eighth and ninth with the Seminoles moving forward following their series win against North Carolina State West Virginia was the biggest riser in the poll, improving six places to No. 16 with a sweep of Brigham Young. Mississippi also had a six-spot gain to No.
18. No. 25 Florida, down 11 places, took the biggest fall after the Gators were lost three games to Alabama.