re: March 25th Baseball Rankings

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Baseball rankings are mostly about where you start.. it takes a lot going wrong to fall out.. it takes a lot going right to move up..

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This is 100% correct, and I’m not even talking about UGA in this case. Getting swept handily by Kentucky is a definite red flag at this point.

D1 comes up with preseason rankings, and that ranking kind of serves like the baseline for teams for the first half of the season.

For example, Wake Forest. They were preseason #1, and have had an unimpressive year to say the least at 16-9

They were ranked #16 going into this week, with a 2-5 record vs Top 25 and 0-2 in ACC series.

They go on to win 2 of 3 this weekend against a Louisville team that is mediocre at best (#68 ELO), and they move up 4 spots in the rankings.

Like I said, each team has a baseline, and it does seem like D1 tries to keep teams as close to their preseason rank as possible.

We all know that if a team who was unranked in the preseason had Wake Forest’s résumé, they would not even be in the conversation today.