College baseball Week 10: Top 25 rankings and what to watch

With different week of shot successful the books and conscionable implicit a period to spell until the NCAA men's assemblage shot tourney begins, we're getting down to crunch clip for immoderate teams to beryllium themselves.

Texas remains No. 1 this week aft sweeping Auburn astatine home, but it hosts rival Texas A&M this play successful a bid that is definite to person plentifulness of fireworks (it's wherefore it's our bid of the week).

Overall, determination was a batch of question successful the apical 25 rankings this week, with the biggest riser being Vanderbilt, which jumped up 10 spots aft sweeping Georgia. West Virginia and Arizona were the different 2 large risers, jumping up 7 and six spots, respectively.

Ole Miss dropped 12 spots to No. 23 successful the ranking this week aft getting upset by Little Rock astatine location past Tuesday and losing a roadworthy bid to South Carolina. After getting swept by Miami, Georgia Tech fell 10 spots to No. 24.

TCU was the lone squad to autumn retired of the rankings aft going 1-3 past week, and NC State took the No. 25 spot aft sweeping Cal successful Berkeley.

Here's however the apical 25 rankings look arsenic of April 21.

Play of the week

Ole Miss didn't person a full batch spell close for them this week, but this expansive slam from Austin Fawley surely helped assistance spirits. And adjacent amended considering Fawley's ma caught the ball.

When your ma catches your expansive slam shot >> #NCAABaseball x 🎥 SECN+ / @OleMissBSB pic.twitter.com/l5XJICWwRw

Player to watch

RHP, Connor Fennell, Vanderbilt

Fennell was connected a teardrop against Georgia successful the 3rd crippled of their play series. He had a vocation precocious 11 K's, and successful 4 SEC starts, helium has had a 4.02 ERA and 34 full K's. Those are beauteous awesome numbers, truthful we can't hold to spot what helium continues doing successful Nashville arsenic helium is surely a large crushed wherefore the Commodores climbed mode up the rankings this week.

⛽️ @ConnorFennell7 pic.twitter.com/BByiVqVZkl

Series to watch

Texas A&M astatine No. 1 Texas

• 8 p.m. ET connected Friday (SEC Network)

• 4 p.m. ET connected Saturday (ESPN2)

• 4 p.m. connected Sunday (ESPN2)

We've been waiting for this matchup ever since the play started. Actually, ever since past June. There is definite to beryllium plentifulness of emotions successful this crippled considering Jim Schlossnagle's exit from A&M to go the caput manager astatine Texas aft starring the Aggies to the Men's College World Series past year. The Aggies person had an unpredictable year, entering 2025 arsenic the preseason No. 1 squad to wholly falling retired of the rankings. But they're getting things right, and they person been taking down apical teams the full past month. But this bid volition beryllium connected the roadworthy successful Austin, and the Longhorns aren't going to privation to suffer to their rival.

Updated apical 25

Here are D1baseball.com's latest rankings, positive accusation connected each team's adjacent game.

All times Eastern.

1. Texas Longhorns

Previous rank: 1
Record: 33-5
Next game: at Texas State, 7 p.m. connected Tuesday (ESPN+)

2. Clemson Tigers

Previous rank: 3
Record: 35-7
Next game: vs. Georgia, 8 p.m. connected Tuesday (ESPNU)

3. Oregon State Beavers

Previous rank: 6
Record: 30-7
Next game: vs. Gonzaga, 8:35 p.m. connected Monday

4. Florida State Seminoles

Previous rank: 7
Record: 29-7
Next game: vs. Stetson, 6 p.m. connected Tuesday (ACCNX)

5. Arkansas Razorbacks

Previous rank: 2
Record: 34-7
Next game: vs. Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. connected Tuesday (SECN+)

6. Tennessee Volunteers

Previous rank: 4
Record: 33-7
Next game: vs. Lipscomb, 6 p.m. connected Tuesday (SECN+)

7. LSU Tigers

Previous rank: 9
Record: 34-7
Next game: vs. Northwestern State, 7:30 p.m. connected Tuesday (SECN+)

8. North Carolina Tar Heels

Previous rank: 12
Record: 31-9
Next game: vs. Presbyterian College, 6 p.m. connected Tuesday (ACCNX)

9. Vanderbilt Commodores

Previous rank: 19
Record: 30-10
Next game: vs. Middle Tennessee, 7 p.m. connected Tuesday (SECN+)

10. Georgia Bulldogs

Previous rank: 5
Record: 33-9
Next game: at Clemson, 8 p.m. connected Tuesday (ESPNU)

11. Auburn Tigers

Previous rank: 8
Record: 27-13
Next game: vs. Georgia Tech, 8 p.m. connected Tuesday (SEC Network)

12. UC Irvine

Previous rank: 13
Record: 25-8
Next game: vs. UCLA, 9 p.m. connected Tuesday (ESPN+)

13. Oregon Ducks

Previous rank: 16
Record: 27-11
Next game: vs. Portland, 8:05 p.m. connected Tuesday

14. Oklahoma Sooners

Previous rank: 18
Record: 29-10
Next game: vs. Oral Roberts, 7:30 p.m. connected Tuesday (SECN+)

15. UCLA Bruins

Previous rank: 10
Record: 29-10
Next game: at UC Irvine, 9 p.m. connected Tuesday (ESPN+)

16. Arizona Wildcats

Previous rank: 22
Record: 28-11
Next game: vs. UT Arlington, 8 p.m. connected Wednesday (ESPN+)

17. West Virginia Mountaineers

Previous rank: 24
Record: 34-4
Next game: at Penn State, 6 p.m. connected Tuesday

18. Alabama Crimson Tide

Previous rank: 15
Record: 31-10
Next game: vs.

19. Louisville Cardinals

Previous rank: 17
Record: 28-11
Next game: vs. Samford, 7 p.m. connected Tuesday (ESPN+)

20. Troy Trojans

Previous rank: 20
Record: 28-12
Next game: at Alabama State, 7 p.m. connected Tuesday

21. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers

Previous rank: 21
Record: 30-10
Next game: at College of Charleston, 6 p.m. connected Tuesday

22. Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles

Previous rank: 23
Record: 27-13
Next game: vs. Tulane, 7 p.m. connected Tuesday (ESPPN+)

23. Ole Miss Rebels

Previous rank: 11
Record: 28-12
Next game: vs. Mississippi State, 7 p.m. connected Tuesday

24. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Previous rank: 14
Record: 29-11
Next game: at Auburn, 8 p.m. connected Tuesday (SEC Network)

25. NC State Wolfpack

Previous rank: NR
Record: 27-12
Next game: vs. East Carolina, 6 p.m. connected Tuesday