re: College Baseball Polls - 3/12

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I'm sort of confused by these. Bama has had an impressive year so far and already at least 1 top 15 win, I think, and no rankings.

LSU splits with my high school and my wife's all girls school and they stay the same.

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For the most part, at this point in the season you're only going to see movement in the polls when ranked teams drop weekend series. And teams that weren't receiving votes preseason aren't going to see much movement into the polls unless they take a series from a ranked team or if they start winning during SEC play.

Yes LSU is getting the benefit of the doubt because of who they are, but this is no different than prestigious football teams getting the same benefit of the doubt when they're scraping by bad football teams early on in the season. Baseball teams aren't punished for dropping one game in a 3 game series or losing in a midweek game. Pollsters know midweek games are used mostly as practices and teams aren't penalized for them accordingly.

LSU deserves the benefit of the doubt.