College Baseball Central is the first out of the gate, and bumped Rice up 3 spots to #6...

http://collegebaseballcentral.com/colleg...3915/9709/

...#4 TCU, #7 A&M, #12 Texas, #20 Tech...and the Coogs drop out.

D1baseball keeps Rice at #10, with #2 TCU, #6 A&M (Kendall's homie pick), #18 Texas, #20 FAU, #24 Tech, #25 Houston (only because they were a Top 10 preseason pick)...

http://www.d1baseball.com/rankings/d1bas...s-march-9/

(03-09-2015 09:19 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  D1baseball keeps Rice at #10, with #2 TCU, #6 A&M (Kendall's homie pick), #18 Texas, #20 FAU, #24 Tech, #25 Houston (only because they were a Top 10 preseason pick)...

http://www.d1baseball.com/rankings/d1bas...s-march-9/

Walt, has we beaten TCU this week instead of lost, where do you think that would have moved us and them, respectively?

(03-09-2015 09:24 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 09:19 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  D1baseball keeps Rice at #10, with #2 TCU, #6 A&M (Kendall's homie pick), #18 Texas, #20 FAU, #24 Tech, #25 Houston (only because they were a Top 10 preseason pick)...

http://www.d1baseball.com/rankings/d1bas...s-march-9/

Walt, has we beaten TCU this week instead of lost, where do you think that would have moved us and them, respectively?

Only a couple slot difference for both teams. TCU still would have been ranked ahead of us after wins over Vandy and UCLA on the West Coast....and I very much doubt we would have moved up more than one or two spots. However, we likely would have stayed ahead of the Aggies.

The kiddie corp at Perfect Game actually DROPPED us 3 spots to #24 this week, Keeping UH, UT, Tech and the Aggies all ahead of us. Crazy rankings with USC coming in at only #23 (behind the Coogs, who have lost 6 of their last 9 games, and who do not yet have a quality win), and 10-5 Louisville (with several bad losses) at #8...

http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View...icle=10951

...Note, they have FAU four spots ahead of us!!!

I can't imagine that the Rice-TCU game would've made much difference for either team's ranking... with something like 18 pitchers taking the mound and a relatively low scoring game, I think it would be a mistake to make any conclusion about how those teams would fare against the rest of the field. TCU did look a bit stronger, but that's expected at their current rankings.

Up from 15-12 in BA.

USC up from 25-9. A&M up from 22-10.

Houston down from 8-24. Texas down from 14-22.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/c...5-march-9/

Up from #15-#11 in USAT coaches poll.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/rankin...d/10031000

I'm sorry I have no confidence in any poll that can have Tech in the Top 25. They have yet to play anyone in the Top 25 and the only team with a pulse on their schedule just swept them. How the heck does this schedule http://www.d1baseball.com/schools/txtech.htm get you ranked #24? Along with the money to start the D1 site must have come some pretty good pharmaceuticals from ESPN.

For the season, here is the breakdown for Texas A&M non-conference games, assuming no cancellations for the remainder of the year:

Home: 21
Road: 2
Neutral: 3

Rice:

Home: 15
Road: 8
Neutral: 1

Texas Tech:

Home: 18
Road: 8
Neutral: 1

Rounding out the list ... up from #11-#10 in the other writers poll.

http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/...50309.html

(03-09-2015 09:40 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  The kiddie corp at Perfect Game actually DROPPED us 3 spots to #24 this week, Keeping UH, UT, Tech and the Aggies all ahead of us. Crazy rankings with USC coming in at only #23 (behind the Coogs, who have lost 6 of their last 9 games, and who do not yet have a quality win), and 10-5 Louisville (with several bad losses) at #8...

http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View...icle=10951

...Note, they have FAU four spots ahead of us!!!

3-1 for the week, all on the road, and the one loss was a 3-1 defeat at #2 TCU...and we drop 3 spots? What are these guys thinking or looking at?

Heck, even Brian Foley and College Baseball Daily moved us up one spot to #8...

http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2015...t=FaceBook

...again, what the heck are the new kids at Perfect Game smoking?

In the good-at-the-end-of-the-year-but-not-yet-stable-though-still-better-than-RPI ISR rankings, Rice slides in at #11

Dallas Baptist #1, TCU #4, FAU #6, Texas A&M #7, Texas #9, Stanford #31, Arizona #53, Texas Tech #69, Houston #83

It will be fun to observe these idiots every week.

(03-09-2015 03:48 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 09:40 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  The kiddie corp at Perfect Game actually DROPPED us 3 spots to #24 this week, Keeping UH, UT, Tech and the Aggies all ahead of us. Crazy rankings with USC coming in at only #23 (behind the Coogs, who have lost 6 of their last 9 games, and who do not yet have a quality win), and 10-5 Louisville (with several bad losses) at #8...

http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View...icle=10951

...Note, they have FAU four spots ahead of us!!!

3-1 for the week, all on the road, and the one loss was a 3-1 defeat at #2 TCU...and we drop 3 spots? What are these guys thinking or looking at?

(03-09-2015 10:13 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  It will be fun to observe these idiots every week.

(03-09-2015 03:48 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 09:40 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  The kiddie corp at Perfect Game actually DROPPED us 3 spots to #24 this week, Keeping UH, UT, Tech and the Aggies all ahead of us. Crazy rankings with USC coming in at only #23 (behind the Coogs, who have lost 6 of their last 9 games, and who do not yet have a quality win), and 10-5 Louisville (with several bad losses) at #8...

http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View...icle=10951

...Note, they have FAU four spots ahead of us!!!

3-1 for the week, all on the road, and the one loss was a 3-1 defeat at #2 TCU...and we drop 3 spots? What are these guys thinking or looking at?

It's almost like they are trolling. It's a troll poll!

The writers move us up one to #10...

http://ht.ly/2VLG83

...with #22 FAU and #27 Arizona.

In his weekly ESPN power rankings, Stitchhead has us up 5 spots to #6, with #1 TCU...

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...r-rankings

(03-11-2015 09:20 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  In his weekly ESPN power rankings, Stitchhead has us up 5 spots to #6, with #1 TCU...

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...r-rankings

Stich is a keen observer of the college baseball scene.