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If you follow college baseball, you likely know that power is historically distributed between the West Coast and the Southeast. If you've been following college baseball in 2016, you know that the West Coast is hot garbage.
With the Pac-12 down and the region's typically robust mid-major crop struggling, it's within the realm of possibility that there are no regional host sites west of Texas come NCAA Tournament time. UC Santa Barbara, the area's strongest host candidate coming into last weekend, went and dropped a series to UC Davis, a 15-26 team with an RPI rank of 215. That comes two weeks after Santa Barbara was swept by Cal Poly (currently ranked 91st in the RPI).
Santa Barbara drops completely out of the composite top 25, leaving Arizona and Washington as the only ranked teams on the West Coast. Arizona swept Oregon State over the weekend but the Wildcats are an uninspiring 14-10 in the Pac-12 and in third place behind Washington and Utah. Washington, which knocked off USC over the weekend and has won 14 of its last 20 games, is still down at 35 in the RPI and has a non-conference strength of schedule ranked 116th.
Meanwhile, 13 of this week's top 25 come from the SEC and ACC.
Note: RPI does not factor into the composite top 25 rankings. It's just there for reference.
Composite | Record | Avg. rank | D1 Baseball | Baseball America | Perfect Game | RPI | ||
1 | Florida | 40-8 | 1 | 1 | Florida | Florida | Florida | Florida |
2 | Texas A&M | 37-10 | 2 | 2 | Texas A&M | Texas A&M | Texas A&M | Louisville |
3 | Mississippi State | 33-14-1 | 3.33 | 3 | Miami | Mississippi State | Mississippi State | Miami |
4 | Miami | 35-9 | 3.67 | 4 | Mississippi State | Miami | Miami | Texas A&M |
5 | Florida State | 32-13 | 5.67 | 5 | Florida State | Texas Tech | Florida State | South Carolina |
6 | Louisville | 38-10 | 7 | 6 | Louisville | Ole Miss | Louisville | NC State |
7 | Texas Tech | 37-13 | 7.33 | 7 | Texas Tech | Florida State | Vanderbilt | Florida State |
8 | Ole Miss | 36-13 | 7.67 | 8 | Ole Miss | South Carolina | South Carolina | Ole Miss |
9 | South Carolina | 36-11 | 8.33 | 9 | South Carolina | Louisville | Ole Miss | Clemson |
10 | Vanderbilt | 36-12 | 10 | 10 | NC State | TCU | Texas Tech | Vanderbilt |
11 | NC State | 32-14 | 11.33 | 11 | Vanderbilt | LSU | NC State | Texas Tech |
12 | TCU | 33-12 | 12 | 12 | Virginia | Vanderbilt | TCU | Mississippi State |
13 | Oklahoma State | 30-15 | 15.67 | 13 | Rice | NC State | Oklahoma State | North Carolina |
13 | Rice | 31-14 | 15.67 | 14 | TCU | Rice | UNC Wilmington | Coastal Carolina |
15 | Tulane | 31-14 | 16 | 15 | Tulane | Virginia | Tulane | Georgia Tech |
16 | LSU | 31-16 | 16.33 | 16 | LSU | Oklahoma State | Michigan | Virginia |
17 | Florida Atlantic | 33-13 | 19 | 17 | Washington | Florida Atlantic | Florida Atlantic | LSU |
17 | Virginia | 31-17 | 19 | 18 | Oklahoma State | Tulane | Bryant | Southern Miss |
19 | Arizona | 31-16 | 22.33 | 19 | Georgia Tech | Southern Miss | Southern Miss | TCU |
19 | Washington | 27-16 | 22.33 | 20 | Coastal Carolina | Washington | Rice | UC Santa Barbara |
21 | Southern Miss | 34-14 | 22.67 | 21 | ECU | Arizona | Coastal Carolina | Louisiana-Lafayette |
22 | Coastal Carolina | 34-14 | 23.67 | 22 | Arizona | Cal State Fullerton | LSU | Rice |
23 | UNC Wilmington | 33-11 | 24.67 | 23 | Florida Atlantic | Clemson | Clemson | Michigan |
24 | Michigan | 34-12 | 25.33 | 24 | Oregon State | UC Santa Barbara | Arizona | Arizona |
24 | Clemson | 31-16 | 25.33 | 25 | Minnesota | Creighton | UC Santa Barbara | ECU |