Unlike its counterparts in football and basketball, college baseball does not have a universally accepted top 25 like the AP Poll. Instead, there are six major polls that schools and publications reference on various occasions, which can create confusion among fans.
To help with that, HawgBeat - the Arkansas site in the Rivals network - will create a single poll that combines the rankings by Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball, Perfect Game, the NCBWA and the USA Today Coaches Poll.
Giving 25 points to the No. 1 team in each poll, 24 points to No. 2, all the way down to 1 point to No. 25, the teams with the 25 highest point totals are listed below, with the "receiving votes" section including each team that was in the top 25 of at least one poll but not within the highest 25.
The "high/low" column features each team's highest and lowest ranking of the week, while the "change" column indicates how much movement each team had from the previous week's rankings.
~For the second straight week, Vanderbilt is the consensus No. 1 team in college baseball, but is not unanimous. Baseball America kept Arkansas in the top spot of its poll.
~After several weeks of the SEC dominating the top five spots in the Composite Poll, the conference now owns just the top three spots, with Texas Tech moving up to No. 4 and Louisville moving up to No. 5.
~The biggest movement in both directions this week was the result of South Carolina sweeping a series against Florida. The Gamecocks jumped up 14 spots from the top "receiving votes" team to No. 12, while the Gators fell eight spots to No. 13.
~There are now only seven SEC teams in the Composite Poll, but that is still the most of any conference. The ACC is second with six teams, followed by the Big 12 (4), Pac-12 (4), Big Ten (2), American (1) and C-USA (1).
~Dropped out: Pitt (16), LSU (18), North Carolina (21), Georgia (25)
~Moved in: South Carolina, Arizona, Louisiana Tech, Virginia Tech
