Ole Miss is knocking on the door of the top five after a third consecutive SEC series win, while Southern Miss nearly fell out completely following a second straight lackluster week.
The Rebels claimed their highest ranking of 2025 at No. 6 – the program’s best landing spot since the 2023 preseason poll. The Golden Eagles took the longest fall of any team in the rankings, dropping 10 spots to No. 23.
The road series win over Kentucky for No. 6 Ole Miss (24-7, 8-4 SEC) marked the first time since 2018 that the Rebels won a third straight SEC series. It was far from a stress-free weekend for the red and blue, with two of the three games against the Wildcats being decided in extra innings and the other being a 3-1 win for Ole Miss.
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The going gets a little tougher for Ole Miss this week as they return to Oxford to take on No. 5 Tennessee, previously ranked No. 1, for a three-game weekend series. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Rebels will battle Memphis and Alcorn State in two midweek games.
No. 23 Southern Miss (22-10, 8-4 Sun Belt) backslid 10 spots after a head-scratching series loss followed a 13-6 win over Tulane in the midweek. The Golden Eagles fell in games 1 and 3 to Marshall, who had previously been winless in Sun Belt weekend series. Christian Ostrander’s club also narrowly avoided a sweep, scraping by 4-3 in game 2 of the series.
In what they hope to be a bounce-back week, the black and gold get a road midweek challenge in Tuscaloosa against No. 12 Alabama before heading to San Marcos, Texas to take on 8th place Texas State for three games.
Mississippi State (19-13, 3-9 SEC) secured its first conference series win of 2025 with a pair of wins over South Carolina, but did not receive a top 25 vote for a sixth straight week.
The full D1Baseball Top 25 can be found below:
- Arkansas
- Texas
- LSU
- Clemson
- Tennessee
- Ole Miss
- Georgia
- Oregon State
- Florida State
- UCLA
- Auburn
- Alabama
- UC Irvine
- Louisville
- Oregon
- North Carolina
- Vanderbilt
- Georgia Tech
- Oklahoma
- Troy
- Coastal Carolina
- Kansas
- Southern Miss
- Arizona
- Virginia Tech
