Preseason Top 25 ranks Mississippi State baseball behind 2 SEC teams

The Mississippi State Bulldogs are ranked in the top 10 of yet another college baseball preseason top 25 ranking, but some Mississippi State baseball fans may not love who the Diamond Dawgs happen to be ranked behind.

According to Perfect Game USA, the Bulldogs are the third best team in the SEC headed into the 2022 college baseball season. Their preseason top 25 ranking has Mississippi State at sixth overall, behind the likes of Vanderbilt, Texas, Stanford, LSU, and Notre Dame.

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Here’s what the full preseason rankings look like, according to Perfect Game USA.

Mississippi State Bulldogs ranked sixth in Perfect Game USA preseason top 25 rankings

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Perfect Game USA preseason Top 25 rankings:

1. Vanderbilt Commodores
2. Texas Longhorns
3. Stanford Cardinal
4. LSU Tigers
5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
6. Mississippi State Bulldogs
7. North Carolina State Wolfpack
8. TCU Horned Frogs
9. Arkansas Razorbacks
10. Ole Miss Rebels
11. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
12. Texas Tech Red Raiders
13. East Carolina Pirates
14. Arizona Wildcats
15. Florida State Seminoles
16. Oklahoma State Cowboys
17. UCLA Bruins
18. Miami Hurricanes
19. Oregon Ducks
20. UC Irvine Anteaters
21. Tennessee Volunteers
22. Nebraska Cornhuskers
23. Florida Gators
24. Long Beach State Dirtbags
25. Liberty Flames

Some folks likely aren’t going to be thrilled with that ranking. Mississippi State is coming off of a monumental season. Outside of a frustrating series against Arkansas and then a poor showing in the SEC Baseball Tournament in Hoover, just about everything went right for the Bulldogs in 2021.

The Mississippi State baseball team beat the Texas Longhorns early in the season, took care of Ole Miss once again, handled the Starkville Regional with relative ease, beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Starkville Super Regional made it back to the College World Series in Omaha where they handled the Longhorns a couple more times, and then beat the brakes off of the Vanderbilt Commodores to win the national title.

Still, Mississippi State will have plenty of opportunities to prove itself this season.

There are seven SEC teams in the top 25 there, including Mississippi State. Of the other six teams coming from the Southeastern Conference, the Bulldogs will face four of them (LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, and Tennessee). In non-conference matchups, the Bulldogs get Long Beach State and Texas Tech, both of whom are ranked here.

It’s still early. Everything is fine. Mississippi State will have its chances to improve its ranking. And there’s a very real chance the Bulldogs will have what it takes to get back to Omaha again this year.

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