The NCAA college baseball rankings consist of a series of human polls which rank the top teams in college baseball from the preseason until after the College World Series. The Coaches Poll is voted by a panel of 31 coaches, all of whom are members of the American Baseball Coaches Association, and is published by USA Today beginning in the preseason, and then weekly after the second week of the regular season. Baseball America also publishes a ranking, which is voted by its staff members, and appears from the preseason through the end of the season. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published the first poll of college baseball teams in 1959, and ranks the top 40 teams in the preseason and top 30 teams during the regular season and postseason. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, or NCBWA, has, since 1998, published a ranking of the top 35 teams in the preseason and top 30 during the regular season and postseason, as voted by 40 of its members.
NCAA Division I poll seasons (1959–present) Poll seasonSeasonChampion 1959 1959 season Oklahoma State 1960 1960 season Minnesota 1961 1961 season Southern California 1962 1962 season Michigan 1963 1963 season Southern California 1964 1964 season Minnesota 1965 1965 season Arizona State 1966 1966 season Ohio State 1967 1967 season Arizona State 1968 1968 season Southern California 1969 1969 season Arizona State 1970 1970 season Southern California 1971 1971 season Southern California 1972 1972 season Southern California 1973 1973 season Southern California 1974 1974 season Southern California 1975 1975 season Texas 1976 1976 season Arizona 1977 1977 season Arizona State 1978 1978 season Southern California 1979 1979 season Cal State Fullerton 1980 1980 season Arizona 1981 1981 season Arizona State 1982 1982 season Miami (FL) 1983 1983 season Texas 1984 1984 season Cal State Fullerton 1985 1985 season Miami (FL) 1986 1986 season Arizona 1987 1987 season Stanford 1988 1988 season Stanford 1989 1989 season Wichita State 1990 1990 season Georgia 1991 1991 season LSU 1992 1992 season Pepperdine 1993 1993 season LSU 1994 1994 season Oklahoma 1995 1995 season Cal State Fullerton 1996 1996 season LSU 1997 1997 season LSU 1998 1998 season Southern California 1999 1999 season Miami (FL) 2000 2000 season LSU 2001 2001 season Miami (FL) 2002 2002 season Texas 2003 2003 season Rice 2004 2004 season Cal State Fullerton 2005 2005 season Texas 2006 2006 season Oregon State 2007 2007 season Oregon State 2008 2008 season Fresno State 2009 2009 season LSU 2010 2010 season South Carolina 2011 2011 season South Carolina 2012 2012 season Arizona 2013 2013 season UCLA 2014 2014 season Vanderbilt 2015 2015 season Virginia 2016 2016 season Coastal Carolina 2017 2017 season Florida 2018 2018 season Oregon State 2019 2019 season Vanderbilt 2020 2020 season Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic 2021 2021 season Mississippi State
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