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[jusfishin]

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Collegiate Baseball released it's pre-season poll today.  Gators 1, Gamecocks 2.

Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's

NCAA Div. I Pre-Season Poll (As of Dec. 19, 2011)

www.baseballnews.com

Rank School (’11 Final Record) Points 1. Florida (53-19) 497 2. South Carolina (55-14) 494 3. Stanford (35-22) 490 4. North Carolina (51-16) 488 5. Texas (49-19) 485 6. Texas A&M (47-22) 484 7. Rice (42-21) 482 8. Arkansas (40-22) 479 9. Georgia Tech. (42-21) 476 10. Texas Christian (43-19) 474 11. St. John's (36-22) 470 12. Louisiana St. (36-20) 468 13. Florida St. (46-19) 465 14. Miami, Fla. (38-23) 464 15. Louisville (32-29) 460 16. Oklahoma (41-19) 458 17. Arizona St. (43-18) 457 18. Georgia (33-32) 455 19. UCLA (35-24) 454 20. Arizona (39-21) 452 21. Cal. St. Fullerton (41-17) 449 22. California (38-23) 447 23. Vanderbilt (54-12) 445 24. Oregon St. (41-19) 443 25. Clemson (43-20) 437 26. Stetson (43-20) 435 27. Oregon (33-26-1) 432 28. Baylor (31-28) 430 29. U.C. Irvine (43-18) 425 30. Southern Miss. (39-19) 422 31. Missouri St. (33-23) 419 32. College of Charleston (39-22) 417 33. Virginia (56-12) 413 34. Georgia Southern (36-26) 412 35. Texas St. (41-23) 408 36. Central Florida (39-23) 406 37. Wichita St. (39-26) 403 38. Jacksonville (37-24) 400 39. Florida International (40-20-1) 397 40. Southern California (25-31) 395

Sorry - this looked better before I posted it.

Edited by jusfishin, 19 December 2011 - 01:32 PM.

[jusfishin]

Vandy's all the way down at 23.  I would expect that to change fairly quickly.

[TrueGCFan]

Love it.  Should be a heck of an SEC ride again this year.

[Yellow]

How dare they put UF in front of us. We are #1 until the Gatas prove they can beat us.

[JoeGator]

Florida has extraordinary starting pitchers, relievers and closers for any potential hitting matchup. Offensively, the team hit .307 with 69 home runs last season and belted 143 doubles as the Gators averaged 6.3 runs per game. In the final 2011 national NCAA statistics, Florida ranked No. 1 in hits by its offense (755), No. 5 in doubles, and No. 5 in homers.
The pitching staff ranked No. 1 in the nation in walks allowed per nine innings at 1.82. The staff had a 2.95 team ERA and had more than a 4:1 strikeout to walk ratio (547 strikeouts and 130 walks).
Opponents had a difficult time running on the Gators last season with an All-American catching in Zunino and a pitching staff that kept runners close. Only 31 bases were stolen off the Gators last season in 47 attempts over 72 games.


Outstanding stats, just hope we can finish at No.1 this time around.

[JoeGator]

cocky87, on 19 December 2011 - 02:03 PM, said:

How dare they put UF in front of us. We are #1 until the Gatas prove they can beat us.

We didn't lose the 2010 CWS to y'all.
It's not like you guys have been dominating us.

But I sort of agree.
If SC is good enough to be ranked preseason Top5, they might as well be No.1

[TrueGCFan]

JoeGator, on 19 December 2011 - 02:04 PM, said:

Florida has extraordinary starting pitchers, relievers and closers for any potential hitting matchup. Offensively, the team hit .307 with 69 home runs last season and belted 143 doubles as the Gators averaged 6.3 runs per game. In the final 2011 national NCAA statistics, Florida ranked No. 1 in hits by its offense (755), No. 5 in doubles, and No. 5 in homers.
The pitching staff ranked No. 1 in the nation in walks allowed per nine innings at 1.82. The staff had a 2.95 team ERA and had more than a 4:1 strikeout to walk ratio (547 strikeouts and 130 walks).
Opponents had a difficult time running on the Gators last season with an All-American catching in Zunino and a pitching staff that kept runners close. Only 31 bases were stolen off the Gators last season in 47 attempts over 72 games.


Outstanding stats, just hope we can finish at No.1 this time around.

Nope.  I smell a back to back to back in 2012.

[TrueGCFan]

JoeGator, on 19 December 2011 - 02:12 PM, said:

We didn't lose the 2010 CWS to y'all.
It's not like you guys have been dominating us.

But I sort of agree.
If SC is good enough to be ranked preseason Top5, they might as well be No.1

Huh?  You mean 2011 right?

[Yellow]

JoeGator, on 19 December 2011 - 02:12 PM, said:

We didn't lose the 2010 CWS to y'all.
It's not like you guys have been dominating us.

But I sort of agree.
If SC is good enough to be ranked preseason Top5, they might as well be No.1

I am just messing. Still we should be ranked #1.

[GoldenRebel]

I'm worried about the SC offense.  The pitching should be fantastic again though.  I'd say at this moment, Florida is the better team.  I'm not even sure that SC belongs in the top 5 considering the talent you lost this spring.  But don't kill me Cocks.  You know I'm a huge Tanner fan

[JoeGator]

You guys are unbearable.



TrueGCFan, read the rest of my post.
Maybe I should rephrase: We lost the series with you guys in 2011 and lost the CWS to you guys in 2011.
That doesn't mean you guys have beaten us so much recently that you should be ranked ahead.
If SC is going to be ranked ahead, it's because the run last year was so unlikely they might well do it again.

[TrueGCFan]

JoeGator, on 19 December 2011 - 02:35 PM, said:

You guys are unbearable.



TrueGCFan, read the rest of my post.
Maybe I should rephrase: We lost the series with you guys in 2011 and lost the CWS to you guys in 2011.
That doesn't mean you guys have beaten us so much recently that you should be ranked ahead.
If SC is going to be ranked ahead, it's because the run last year was so unlikely they might well do it again.

Panties out of wad my friend.  I'm just joking.  In baseball rankings mean less than nothing.

UF is a very good team and overall have better talent than USC.  

We haven't won the last two CWS because we had better talent.  We've won because we were the best team.

[TrueGCFan]

GoldenRebel, on 19 December 2011 - 02:24 PM, said:

I'm worried about the SC offense.  The pitching should be fantastic again though.  I'd say at this moment, Florida is the better team.  I'm not even sure that SC belongs in the top 5 considering the talent you lost this spring.  But don't kill me Cocks.  You know I'm a huge Tanner fan

That is fair.  But we won last year because of pitching.  As a Gamecock fan we know gorilla ball will only get you so far.  Look at our teams in the early 2000s.  

Plus with the bat changes pitching has become that much more important.

[JoeGator]

TrueGCFan, on 19 December 2011 - 02:37 PM, said:

Panties out of wad my friend.  I'm just joking.  In baseball rankings mean less than nothing.

UF is a very good team and overall have better talent than USC.  

We haven't won the last two CWS because we had better talent.  We've won because we were the best team.

When we are two months from playing a game, rankings mean everything.
It's all we have right now.
Besides, you were half joking at best!

[TrueGCFan]

JoeGator, on 19 December 2011 - 02:47 PM, said:

When we are two months from playing a game, rankings mean everything.
It's all we have right now.
Besides, you were half joking at best!

It was a total joke.  I'm not all of these other new Gamecock posters.