SEC baseball is finally here. College baseball starts this weekend and I can’t wait. I just cannot get into college basketball this year. SEC baseball has 6 teams ranked on the top 11 of the polls and a few other teams in the top 25. You think the SEC dominates college football, this looks on paper like total domination of college baseball.

1. SEC baseball

2. SEC baseball is finally here. College
baseball starts this weekend and I can’t
wait. I just cannot get into college
basketball this year.
SEC baseball has 6 teams ranked on the
top 11 of the polls and a few other teams
in the top 25. You think the SEC
dominates college football, this looks on
paper like total domination of college
baseball.

3. Of course some teams like Stanford and
Arizona may have something to say
about that.
SEC baseball teams have some great
match-ups on this first weekend.

4. Defending two-time National Champion
South Carolina opens the season with a 3
game series against VMI. All three games
are sold out with standing room only
tickets available for Saturday and
Sunday. A total of 25,000 tickets have
been sold for an opening 3 game series
in college baseball. Amazing.
The Gamecock basketball team has
maybe 3-4000 fans show up for a game.
The state is baseball crazy.

5. Florida comes into the season with the
number 1 ranked team in the country.
They have as many as 7 All-Americans
on the team. They are loaded with talent
but can they put it all together when it
counts. Last year in the finals of the
College World Series they were swept by
the Gamecocks in an all SEC
Championship series.
SEC baseball teams have won 3 straight
College World Series with South Carolina
winning the last two.

6. In probably the best match up of opening
weekend the 10th ranked Vanderbilt
Commodores will take on the 2nd ranked
Stanford Cardinal.
The series will take place at Stanford.
Vandy will find out what they got early.

7. Arkansas is ranked number 4 giving the
SEC 3 of the top 5 ranked teams in
preseason. They start the season at
home with a 3 game set with Villanova.
The strength of the Razorbacks is their
pitching and they hope to ride their arms
into the College World Series.

8. LSU is ranked in the top 10 again and
sixth-year coach Paul Mainieri believes
his 2012 LSU club will feature an
outstanding pitching staff complemented
by a capable lineup with plenty of big-
game experience.
They open the season at home Friday
against Air Force.

9. The Georgia Bulldogs are ranked at
number 11. The Dogs welcome back 22
lettermen from the 2011 squad that had
a 33-32 mark and moved on to the NCAA
Corvallis (Ore.) Regional final.
Eight position starters return in 2012
along with eight pitchers that logged
significant innings. With that much
experience Georgia has as good a chance
as any team to make it to Omaha.

10. Mississippi is ranked in the top 25 this
year and they have a chance to move up
in the rankings this weekend.
Ole Miss will open the 2012 season on
the road in a top 25 showdown as the
Rebels travel to Texas to take on the
10th-ranked TCU Horned Frogs in a big
weekend series for both teams.

11. The Mississippi State Bulldogs open the
season against Washington State at
home in Starkville. The Bulldogs could be
this years sleeper team in the SEC
accotding to Baseball America.
They are picked to finish 5th in the West
but they have the talent to move into the
top 25.

12. Below is how the SEC coaches voted in
their Preseason SEC Baseball Poll.
2012 SEC Preseason Baseball Coaches
Poll

13. Eastern Division
Team
1) Florida
2) South Carolina
3) Georgia
4) Vanderbilt
5) Kentucky
6) Tennessee

14. Western Division
Team
1) Arkansas
2) LSU
3) Alabama
4) Mississippi
5) Mississippi State
6) Auburn
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