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College baseball composite top 25: Louisville's looking like a national seed

The Cards made a statement by sweeping Clemson, their first series win over a top-25 RPI opponent.

By Jeff Gray
Steven Branscombe-USA TODAY Sports

It was a rocky week for top teams, with four of last week's top 25 losing series.

Mississippi State, fresh off an eye-opening series win over then-No. 1 Florida, went and got swept by Texas A&M, which surges back up to No. 3. Florida State got pummeled by Florida in a midweek game, then dropped two of three to Wake Forest, the first series loss of the season for the Noles. Rounding it off, Oregon State dropped a couple of games to Washington State and South Carolina went down to lowly Georgia.

Perhaps the biggest winner was Louisville. Coming into the week, the biggest knock against the Cards as a national seed was their struggles against other elite teams: they were 3-6 against the RPI top 25. After knocking off Kentucky in midweek and sweeping then-No. 21 Clemson over the weekend, that record is suddenly above .500. Clemson, meanwhile, tumbles out of the rankings after a second straight series loss.

Note: RPI is not used to calculate the composite top 25.

Composite Record Avg. rank D1 Baseball Baseball America Perfect Game RPI
1 Miami 29-5 1 1 Miami Miami Miami Florida
2 Florida 33-5 2 2 Florida Florida Florida Miami
3 Texas A&M 29-7 3 3 Texas A&M Texas A&M Texas A&M Louisville
4 TCU 27-8 5.67 4 Vanderbilt TCU TCU Texas A&M
5 Vanderbilt 28-8 6 5 Louisville LSU Mississippi State South Carolina
5 Louisville 29-7 6 6 Mississippi State Louisville Vanderbilt NC State
5 Mississippi State 24-12 6 7 Florida State Mississippi State Louisville Ole Miss
8 Florida State 23-11 8.67 8 NC State Vanderbilt Florida State UC Santa Barbara
9 LSU 25-11 9.33 9 TCU UC Santa Barbara NC State Florida State
10 NC State 26-10 10.33 10 LSU Texas Tech Texas Tech Clemson
10 Texas Tech 29-9 10.33 11 Texas Tech Florida State South Carolina Texas Tech
12 South Carolina 29-8 11.67 12 South Carolina South Carolina Oregon State Vanderbilt
13 UC Santa Barbara 24-7 13 13 UC Santa Barbara Rice LSU LSU
14 Ole Miss 26-10 15 14 Oregon State NC State Ole Miss North Carolina
15 Oregon State 23-9 16 15 Rice Ole Miss North Carolina Louisiana-Lafayette
15 North Carolina 25-11 16 16 Ole Miss North Carolina Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina
17 Rice 24-11 17 17 North Carolina Long Beach State UC Santa Barbara Mississippi State
18 Cal 21-11 20.33 18 Long Beach State Michigan Cal Rice
19 Coastal Carolina 27-10 20.67 19 Kentucky Kentucky Florida Atlantic Southern Miss
20 Kentucky 23-12 21 20 ECU Cal BYU South Alabama
21 Long Beach State 21-13 21.67 21 Coastal Carolina Florida Atlantic Michigan State Minnesota
22 Michigan 25-9 23.33 22 Clemson Oregon State Michigan Florida Atlantic
22 Florida Atlantic 25-8 23.33 23 Cal Michigan State Rice Kentucky
24 Michigan State 25-7 24.67 24 Louisiana-Lafayette Louisiana-Lafayette Dallas Baptist Georgia Tech
25 Louisiana-Lafayette 24-12 26 25 Minnesota Coastal Carolina Kentucky TCU

Last week's rankings