2025 Preseason Top 25 Rankings

Vincent Cervino

Craig Cozart

While much of the country is blanketed in a fresh layer of snow, student athletes are reporting back to campus and skill related workouts have begun. Opening Day for the college baseball season falls on Valentine’s Day this year and it is just six weeks away. After an unpredictable, and at times, tumultuous offseason for the game as a whole, we are reminded that we are in the golden age for the game we are so fond of. So, here we go with our annual Perfect Game pre-season Top-25 poll.

After making an amazing run to the championship series of the CWS, eventually losing to Tennessee in 3-games, the Texas A&M Aggies will debut the 2025 season as our No.1 ranked team. First year head coach Michael Early navigated a crazy offseason and kept together arguably the most talented offense in the nation recovering the likes of Jace Laviolette and Gavin Grahovac from the transfer portal. Laviolette is the top collegiate bat and a front runner to go 1:1 in this year’s MLB Draft while Grahovac was the SEC’s Freshman of the Year. The Aggies also got a nice surprise when staff ace and Dick Howser Award Semifinalist, Ryan Prager, decided to forgo his professional career and return to College Station.

The LSU Tigers will enter the season as our No. 2 team as they return five everyday starters and landed some of the nation’s top transfers once again. Freshman All-American Steven Milam and Freshman All-SEC Ashton Larson return for their sophomore year to lead a potent lineup including Jared Jones who returns 28 home runs. The Virginia Cavaliers are No. 3 and may have the deepest lineup in the nation. Sluggers Harrison Didawick, Jacob Ference and Henry Ford return 23, 17 and 17 home runs, respectively, and Henry Godbout is back with his 1.117 OPS. Coming in at No. 4 will be the Georgia Bulldogs who crushed the transfer portal landing eight of the Top-50 transfers in the nation and return six everyday starters including cornerstone Slate Alford and Freshman All-American Tre Phelps. Rounding out the Top-5 will be the defending National Champions, Tennessee Volunteers who return top 2025 draft-eligible sophomore Dean Curley while junior transfer Andrew Fischer will add his powerful, left-handed stroke to the everyday lineup.

The SEC once again leads the poll with a total of 10 members on the pre-season list. The ACC in the next closest with 6 teams and the Big 12 comes in with a total of 4 teams in the poll. Other than that, the Big 10, Big West, Sun Belt and Conference USA had one a piece with independent Oregon State coming in at No. 10 overall.

Rank	Team		Conference	2024 Record	2024 Finish	Head Coach
1		Texas A&M	SEC	53-15	CWS Finals	Michael Earley
2		LSU	SEC	43-23	Chapel Hill Regional	Jay Johnson
3		Virginia	ACC	46-17	CWS	Brian O'Connor
4		Georgia	SEC	43-17	Athens Super Regional	Wes Johnson
5		Tennessee	SEC	60-13	National Champions	Tony Vitello
6		Florida State	ACC	49-17	CWS	Link Jarrett
7		Texas	SEC	36-24	Bryan-College Station Regional	Jim Schlossnagle
8		Clemson	ACC	44-16	Clemson Super Regional	Erik Bakich
9		Duke	ACC	40-20	Norman Regional	Chris Pollard
10		Oregon State	Independent	45-16	Lexington Super Regional	Mitch Canham
11		Florida	SEC	36-30	CWS	Kevin O'Sullivan
12		Arizona	Big 12	36-23	Tucson Regional	Chip Hale
13		Arkansas	SEC	44-16	Fayetteville Regional	Dave Van Horn
14		Oregon	Big 10	40-20	Bryan-College Station Super Regional	Mark Wasikowski
15		Vanderbilt	SEC	38-23	Clemson Regional	Tim Corbin
16		Wake Forest	ACC	38-22	Greenville Regional	Tom Walter
17		Dallas Baptist	Conference USA	45-15	Tucson Regional	Dan Heefner
18		TCU	Big 12	33-21	No Postseason	Kirk Saarloos
19		North Carolina	ACC	48-16	CWS	Scott Forbes
20		Oklahoma	SEC	40-21	Norman Regional	Skip Johnson
21		West Virginia	Big 12	36-24	Chapel Hill Super Regional	Steve Sabins
22		Auburn	SEC	27-26	No Postseason	Butch Thompson
23		Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	36-25	Clemson Regional	Kevin Schnall
24		UC Santa Barbara	Big West	44-14	Santa Barbara Regional	Andrew Checketts
25		Oklahoma State	Big 12	42-19	Stillwater Regional	Josh Holliday