SEC Baseball: Power rankings after Week 1 of SEC play

Omaha, NE - JUNE 27: A general view of a baseball on the field prior to game two of the College World Series Championship Series between the Oregon State Beavers and the Arkansas Razorbacks on June 27, 2018 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images) /

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Omaha, NE – JUNE 27: A general view of a baseball on the field prior to game two of the College World Series Championship Series between the Oregon State Beavers and the Arkansas Razorbacks on June 27, 2018 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images) /

The SEC baseball teams kicked off conference play this past weekend, and we can now begin to shape up the teams and where they stand.

The out-of-conference portion of the 2019 SEC baseball season has been great for the league. For much of the season, the SEC has had 11 teams ranked in the various Top 25 rankings across multiple publications.

But this week, things got ratcheted up another notch as the SEC baseball teams entered conference play for the first time. The contenders and pretenders have begun the process of separating themselves from one another.

As stated previously, 11 of the SEC baseball teams have spent much of the year ranked. But now that conference play has begun, expect that number to go down with the teams playing each other. As of Monday morning, two teams fell out of the D1baseball.com Top 25.

Teams had established themselves to a certain extent before this past weekend. But now that we have seen the SEC baseball teams play each other for the first time, we will see if those early season impressions were indeed correct, or if we were watching fool’s gold in front of our eyes.

This is the first of the SEC Baseball Power Rankings. The Power Rankings will be updated each week after the weekend’s games have taken place.

The SEC Baseball Power Rankings will take into account the entire body of work for each team. It will, however, lean heavily towards what teams have done in conference play. And the further into conference play we get, the more heavily we will lean on how the teams play against each other.