College baseball rankings for Week 13: Updated USA TODAY Sports Coaches poll, top 25 polls
Here's an updated look at the USA TODAY Sports College Baseball Coaches Poll, D1Baseball Poll and Baseball America Poll for Week 13 and more.
The penultimate week of the college baseball regular season has arrived, and the top five remain in the top 25 polls remain unscathed. UCLA remains the top-ranked team in the country in all three of the major college baseball polls — including USA TODAY Sports College Baseball Coaches Poll — after going a perfect 4-0 on the week, headlined by a series sweep over Michigan State that helped the Bruins clinch a share of the Big Ten Conference title and remain unbeaten in Big Ten play. North Carolina , Georgia Tech , Texas and Georgia stay put in Nos.
2-5 in the Coaches Poll , with the Tar Heels scoring six runs in the first inning to defeat Tobacco Road rival Duke in a premiere ACC matchup. Macon Winslow went 3-for-4 at the plate with a career-high five RBIs and three runs scored in the Tar Heels' 13-0, run-rule win. MORE: Basketball transfer portal’s early losers: Big names, big swings, bigger questions Where the top 25 polls differ from last week's is the movement among teams in the middle of the pack, which could impact seeding and/or the bubble for the NCAA Baseball Tournament in a few weeks.
Boston College wasn't able to carry its momentum from its series opener win vs. Clemson, as the Eagles dropped the final two games of the three-game road series . Those losses featured an 11-run first inning in Game 2 on Saturday.
The series loss to the Tigers — Clemson's first ACC series win since the start of April — dropped the Eagles from No. 19 to No. 22 in the Coaches Poll.