List of NCAA college baseball rankings

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The NCAA college baseball rankings consist of a series of human polls which rank the top teams in college baseball from the preseason until after the College World Series. The Coaches Poll is voted by a panel of 31 coaches, all of whom are members of the American Baseball Coaches Association, and is published by USA Today beginning in the preseason, and then weekly after the second week of the regular season. [1] Baseball America also publishes a ranking, which is voted by its staff members, and appears from the preseason through the end of the season. [2] Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published the first poll of college baseball teams in 1959, and ranks the top 40 teams in the preseason and top 30 teams during the regular season and postseason. [3] The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, or NCBWA, has, since 1998, published a ranking of the top 35 teams in the preseason and top 30 during the regular season and postseason, as voted by 40 of its members. [4]

NCAA Division I poll seasons (1959–present)

Poll seasonSeasonChampion
1959 1959 season Oklahoma State
1960 1960 season Minnesota
1961 1961 season Southern California
1962 1962 season Michigan
1963 1963 season Southern California
1964 1964 season Minnesota
1965 1965 season Arizona State
1966 1966 season Ohio State
1967 1967 season Arizona State
1968 1968 season Southern California
1969 1969 season Arizona State
1970 1970 season Southern California
1971 1971 season Southern California
1972 1972 season Southern California
1973 1973 season Southern California
1974 1974 season Southern California
1975 1975 season Texas
1976 1976 season Arizona
1977 1977 season Arizona State
1978 1978 season Southern California
1979 1979 season Cal State Fullerton
1980 1980 season Arizona
1981 1981 season Arizona State
1982 1982 season Miami (FL)
1983 1983 season Texas
1984 1984 season Cal State Fullerton
1985 1985 season Miami (FL)
1986 1986 season Arizona
1987 1987 season Stanford
1988 1988 season Stanford
1989 1989 season Wichita State
1990 1990 season Georgia
1991 1991 season LSU
1992 1992 season Pepperdine
1993 1993 season LSU
1994 1994 season Oklahoma
1995 1995 season Cal State Fullerton
1996 1996 season LSU
1997 1997 season LSU
1998 1998 season Southern California
1999 1999 season Miami (FL)
2000 2000 season LSU
2001 2001 season Miami (FL)
2002 2002 season Texas
2003 2003 season Rice
2004 2004 season Cal State Fullerton
2005 2005 season Texas
2006 2006 season Oregon State
2007 2007 season Oregon State
2008 2008 season Fresno State
2009 2009 season LSU
2010 2010 season South Carolina
2011 2011 season South Carolina
2012 2012 season Arizona
2013 2013 season UCLA
2014 2014 season Vanderbilt
2015 2015 season Virginia
2016 2016 season Coastal Carolina
2017 2017 season Florida
2018 2018 season Oregon State
2019 2019 season Vanderbilt
2020 2020 season Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021 2021 season Mississippi State

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References

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