Collegiate Baseball Poll-April 26

TUCSON, Ariz. — Texas bumped Arizona St. from the No. 1 spot in the latest Collegiate Baseball newspaper NCAA Division I baseball poll.

The Longhorns (34-7) have won 16 straight games, their longest winning streak since 2005, and were ranked No. 1 in the pre-season Collegiate Baseball poll. Texas leads the Big 12 Conference with a 16-2 mark.

The Sun Devils (33-5) were 2-2 last week as ASU lost at home to Arizona before winning two of three at home against Washington. Arizona St., still first in the Pac-10 Conference with an 11-4 record, had been ranked No. 1 for the previous six polls.

Poll Notes: Several teams have been red hot lately, including Connecticut (21 in a row, longest winning streak in school history), Coastal Carolina (17), Portland (7), and Cal. St. Fullerton (6). Several key top 30 series took place last weekend. Mississippi swept a 3-game series against Louisiana St. Virginia Tech. knocked off Georgia Tech. two of three, Florida beat Arkansas two of three, UCLA beat Arizona two of three, Florida St. beat Miami, Fla. two of three, Stanford swept a 3-game series from California, Connecticut swept a 3-game series against Rutgers.

Five teams fell out of the top 30 this week in Rutgers (0-3 last week), Oregon St. (1-2), Clemson (2-2), Vanderbilt (3-2), and Northwestern St. (1-4). New to the top 30 is Virginia Tech, Portland (27-9, most wins since 1991, leaders of the West Coast Conference at 11-1), Rice, U.C. Irvine and Texas St.

The Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1957 college baseball season.

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