Florida baseball gets boost in Coaches Poll after wins at FSU, Georgia
Florida baseball finished a season sweep of FSU while taking a 3-game series from Georgia this week, moving them up the Coaches Poll into the top 20.
Florida baseball was on the upswing this week, earning a trio of victories over a pair of top-10 teams in four tries to move up six spots to No. 18 in the latest USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll . The Gators now sit between the No.
17 Arkansas Razorbacks and No. 19 Oregon Ducks . The week began with the completion of a season sweep of the then-sixth-ranked Florida State Seminoles on Tuesday night with a 4-3 win in Tallahassee.
Kevin O'Sullivan's squad moved on to Athens, where they opened the weekend with an 8-2 victory over the then-fourth-ranked Georgia Bulldogs on Friday night, followed by a 5-1 loss on Saturday afternoon, and then concluded with a 13-7 slugfest triumph on Sunday afternoon that sealed the deal on the series win. Next up for the Orange and Blue are the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats, who travel to Gainesville for a Tuesday night midweek matchup starting at 6:30 p. m.
ET inside Condron Family Ballpark. The homestand continues into the weekend, with the No. 13 Auburn Tigers arriving in town for a trio starting on Friday at 5:30 p.