As expected, there was significant movement in the most recent update to CB360′s 100-point Composite National Rankings CNR), following week-3 of the 2014 season (though games as of March 2).
Click Here to view the 2014 preseason CNR., and Click Here week-2 … Here for week-3 CNR
CB360 Composite Top-50 Rankings for 2014 – Week 4 (thru games of 3–2–14)
(rank) Team – voting pts (previous: week-3 CNR … week-3 … preseason CNR)
1. Florida State – 98.63 (1 … 3 … 5 preseason)
2. Virginia – 98.36 (2 … 4 … 3)
3. South Carolina – 98.24 (8 … 9 … 12)
4. Cal State Fullerton – 96.74 (4 … 1 … 1)
5. Vanderbilt – 94.72 (6 … 7 … 10)
6. Oregon State – 94.52 (5 … 2 … 2)
7. North Carolina State – 93.25 (9 … 10 … 8)
8. LSU – 92.81 (3 … 6 … 6)
9. Oregon – 89.16 (7 … 8 … 9)
10. Mississippi State – 88.87 (10 … 5 … 4)
11. UCLA – 88.10 (14 … 11 … 11)
12. Louisiana-Lafayette – 87.93 (18 … 21 … 24)
13. Cal Poly – 87.38 (16 … 24 … 27)
14. Louisville – 86.92 (13 … 14 … 14)
15. North Carolina – 83.12 (17 … 13 … 13)
16. Texas – 83.07 (23 … 26 … 23)
17. Clemson – 79.75 (12 … 16 … 16)
18. Rice – 79.56 (11 … 15 … 15)
19. Mississippi – 79.54 (30 … 30 … 32)
20. Miami – 79.17 (15 … 17 … 17)
21. Kentucky – 77.20 (33 … 35 … 44)
22. Oklahoma State – 75.78 (19 … 19 … 20)
23. Fresno State – 70.42 (– … – … –)
24. Indiana – 68.10 (24 … 12 … 7)
25. Sam Houston State – 60.03 (41 … 41 … 46)
26. TCU – 67.59 (20 … 22 … 22)
27. San Diego – 62.37 (37 … 36 … 33)
28. Florida International – 61.85 (48 … – … –)
29. Arkansas – 59.55 (25 … 28 … 30)
30. College of Charleston – 58.50 (– … – … –)
31. Tennessee – 58.07 (46 … – … –)
32. Kansas – 54.62 (– … – … –)
33. Florida Atlantic – 54.59 (31 … 31 … 31)
34. Texas Tech – 53.53 (32 … 33 … –)
35. Seton Hall – 52.67 (– … – … –)
36. Arizona State – 52.17 (27 … 20 … 21)
37. Texas A&M – 52.14 (22 … 23 … 25)
38. Alabama – 51.36 (26 … 25 … 26)
39. Memphis – 47.24 (– … – … –)
40. California – 47.07 (– … – … –)
41. VCU – 46.91 (– … – … –)
42. Houston – 46.61 (41 … 41 … 50)
42. Tennessee Tech – 46.61 (– … – … –)
42. USC … 46.61 (39 … – … –)
45. Western Carolina – 45.83 (44 … 49 … 38)
46. Florida – 45.60 (21 … 18 … 19)
46. New Mexico – 45.60 (45 … 50 … 40)
48. Maryland – 45.29 (– … – … –)
49. UC Santa Barbara – 44.99 (40 … 45 … 37)
50. Mercer –43.20 (41 … 41 … 46)
dropped out of top-50
28. Kansas State
29. Arizona
34. East Carolina
35. Nebraska
36. UNC Wilmington
38. Georgia Tech
47. Wichita State
49. Baylor
50. Oklahoma
Other teams that have dropped out of the CNR top-50 so far in 2014:
• UNLV (preseason #46 and #34 after week-1)
• Washington State (preseason #49 and #41 after week-1)
• Stanford (preseason #42 and #47 after week-1)
• North Florida (preseason #50 and #48 after week-1)
• Coastal Carolina (preseason #43)
• Liberty (preseason #45)
Note – 15 teams that were in the top-50 of the final 2013 CNR, at end of the regular season, were not in the 2014 preseason CNR top-50: (17) South Alabama, (19) Virginia Tech, (23) Troy, (29) Pittsburgh, (30) Campbell, (37) South Florida, (41) Seton Hall, (42) Gonzaga, (43) Michigan State, (44) Austin Peay, (45) Maryland, (46) UC Irvine, (47) Notre Dame, (48) Illinois and (50) Ohio State.
COMPOSITE NATIONAL RANKINGS (CNR) CRITERIA: Teams receive points based on their standings in each poll/rating/projection (60 pts for #1; 59 for #2, etc.). For polls involving voting points (coaches and CB) and the various RPI-type ratings, the CNR adjusts to reward teams that have larger margins in the voting/point totals (whereas two teams with nearly the same voting-point total will be closer in the CNR allotment for that poll). Note that strength-of-schedule typically is factored into RPI formulations … thus the actual SOS numbers only are used early in the season (SOS are not used in the CNR when RPI already are in the mix). For the NCAA field projections, teams are awarded CNR points based on their respective seedings, “last in” and “last out,” etc.
The polls/ratings/projections are averaged, with 40 points typically then added to each total in order to yield the 100-point benchmark. Early in the season (projected SOS) and late in the season (final-10 games), a maximum bonus/penalty of 0.3 (SOS) or 0.5 points (final-10) is factored into the formula (in that case, 39.7 or 39.5, rather than 40, is added to the poll/rating/projection avg.).
Here are links to the five criteria currently used in the CNR:
• National Coaches Poll (USA Today/ESPN)
• National Collegiate Baseball Writers poll
• Baseball America poll
• Collegiate Baseball magazine rankings
• Perfect Game preseason rankings,