Final Rankings

Definitely ranked....but hard to tell where.

 

Travesty if UF isn't ranked #4 even with the 36-30 record.

The Gators as a 3 regional seed eliminated national seeds 2 Kentucky, 6 Clemson, 10 NC State, 11 Oklahoma State, and 2 regional seed Nebraska.

FSU will be ranked at #3 ahead of UF, better record and took the 3 mid-week games this year. I wish we would take the FSU series to home and home.

At the end of the year, UF is the 4th best team. This is why we bother to have an NCAA tournament with a resulting CWS champion. Fresno State won the CWS in 2008 as a 4 regional seed, the only team ever to do so, and finished ranked #1.

 

Looks like they may have been eliminated by an unbeaten CWS National Champion(A&M). If that ain't worth a 4th place finish, why have a CWS?

 

#4

 

First I've seen is D1Baseball: #8. Overall pretty reasonable.

 

Baseball America #6
USA Today Coaches Poll #6

 

That ranking seems about right due to our lackluster regular season record.
Hopefully, we will sign some stud pitchers this offseason.

 

Florida State earned #3 and Florida earned #4 as a result of the post season playoffs. As far as I'm concerned, the pollsters and rankers should have just left 36-30 Florida out of the rankings rather than putting the Gators at #6 and #8, neither of which can be justified.

 

I think the only condition under which 6th or 8th cannot be justified is one in which the regular season is completely disregarded, but this seems like an extreme position to take. The Gators have more losses than all other ranked teams and have 14 more losses than Kentucky or North Carolina.

 

Does anybody really care what we are ranked after the season is over if it isn't #1?

Last year we end up #2 and so preseason we are ranked #2 even though we lost Langford, Waldrup and Sproat. That was a huge amount of talent to replace.

Next season we will be a preseason Top 10 team based on the final rankings. And Cags will be gone.

 

when you close the way uf did, it is historical. yes, the regular season should have been ignored. if you count the regular season, uf didn't deserve 6 or 8. i guess you would have been ok with a ranking less than 1 had uf won the cws and finished with a 40-30 record?

 

I would think neither the regular season nor post season should be completely ignored. As for your question, the winner of the tournament is, by definition, the national champion, so its ranking is either assured or superfluous. Your position invites the same kind of problems, where a 50-12 team that went 0-2 in their regional wouldn’t be ranked at all. The pollsters seem to weigh the postseason games higher than regular season ones, but you seem to think this makes no sense unless they go so far to put 100% weight on them. I just don’t see why that is the only defensible position.

 

@GatorRade —
Does this mean that @wingtee will have to have a special conference call with them to get the information from midweek games into the conversation?

 

I've seen many years in which the CWS top 8 get ranked in the top 8 positions based on how they finished, and the next best teams that didn't make it to the CWS start at #9. In the final analysis, it doesn't matter if UF was ranked 6 or 8 or not ranked at all. I'm done.

 

Agree....common sense says a composite of regular and postseason should be considered. Clearly postseason carries more weight per game but body of work is a factor

 

Sad for someone to be done when they have a top quality program available to support. On the other hand, deciding that you're done when the most consistent program in college baseball struggles some throughout the regular season, but overcomes those difficulties well enough to tie for third in the tournament fits the definition of a frontrunner. Try TN, they were hot this year- still far behind Gators as a program and most of the rest of the SEC, but very hot this year. Chances are they'll return to the celler when another program buys their coach, but you can just shift to another hot team.

 

I'm done with discussing the final ranking.