Red-hot FSU baseball team cracks Top 5 in one major poll
It took the FSU baseball team a few weeks to break into the Top 25 of national polls this season, but it has been a steady climb since then. And now, with just over a month remaining in the regular season, the Seminoles have cracked the Top 5 in at least one publication.
After sweeping four games from rivals Florida and Miami this past week, FSU is now 30-5 on the season and ranked No. 5 by Baseball America. It’s the Seminoles’ highest national ranking in over five years.
Texas A&M (32-4) is ranked No. 1, followed by Arkansas (30-5), Tennessee (30-6), Clemson (29-6) and the Seminoles.
FSU also moved up a couple of spots in the D1Baseball rankings, surging from No. 10 to No. 8 after the weekend sweep of the Hurricanes and midweek win over the Gators.
Florida State was No. 9 in last week’s USA Today Coaches Poll, but they moved up to No. 7 this week.
This marks the first time FSU’s baseball team has been ranked in the top five nationally by any publication since early in the 2019 season.
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Under second-year head coach Link Jarrett, FSU has won 10 of its last 12 games and sits in second place in the ACC Atlantic Division.
The Seminoles have two huge conference series looming over the next two weekends. After hosting Mercer on Tuesday, they will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C., to face No. 14 Wake Forest. Then they will have a midweek game against North Florida before traveling to Durham, N.C., to face No. 7 Duke.
By sweeping Miami this past weekend, FSU pulled off season sweeps of the Hurricanes and Gators for the first time since 1960.
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