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Louisiana State Tops Preseason NCAA Rankings

 Matt Tallarini  |    Feb 10th, 2023 9:38pm EST

Head coach Jay Johnson of the LSU Tigers has a team ranked No. 1 in the January 16 D1baseball.com rankings.
(Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)

World Baseball Network will publish Division I Rankings from D1Baseball.com applied with NCAA website weekly throughout the 2023 NCAA college baseball season until the final out of the College World Series.  

The rankings are presented by the NCAA committee along with a rating per index (RPI) system that applies to strength of schedule of other opponents facing the lone programs. 

The Ole Miss Rebels, under head coach Mike Bianco, won the 2022 national championship in the best-of-three final series against the Oklahoma Sooners, and Ole Miss will start at number four to open up the season. Stanford, Arkansas and Texas A&M are the other programs that are inside the top 10 that appeared in last year’s College World Series. 

Below are the D1Baseball.com Rankings as of Jan. 16, 2023: 

Rank   Team 2022 Record  Final 2022 Ranking
1 LSU       40-22 25
2       Tennessee         57-9 9
3         Stanford       47-18 5
4       Ole Miss   42-23 1
5     Texas A&M                   44-20 3
6 Wake Forest 41-19-1 NR
7 Florida 42-24 21
8 Arkansas 46-21 4
9 Oklahoma State 42-22 17
10 Vanderbilt 39-23 NR
11 East Carolina 46-21 13
12 North Carolina 42-22 14
13 Maryland 48-14 18
14 Virginia Tech 45-14 11
15 TCU 38-22 23
16 Louisville 42-21-1 12
17 UCLA 40-24 22
18 Southern Miss 47-19 15
19 Virginia 39-19 NR
20 Alabama 31-27 NR
21 NC State 36-21 NR
22 Miami 40-20 20
23 South Carolina 27-28 NR
24 Texas Tech 39-22 24
25 Oregon 36-25 NR