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Texas, Texas A&M rankings: Where do Longhorns, Aggies rank in Baseball America top 25?

July 25, 2024
Austin Curtright, USA TODAY NETWORK

   

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While college baseball just concluded in June, talk is already being made about the 2025 season.

With rosters starting to be set following the 2024 MLB draft, the transfer portal being open for a few weeks and the coaching carousel largely figured out, teams are starting to come together.

Baseball America released its “way-too-early” top 25 rankings for the 2025 college baseball season on Wednesday, with LSU occupying the top spot. There were also 11 SEC teams ranked inside the top 25, including Texas A&M, the reigning runner-up, and Texas, who hired former Aggies coach Jim Schlossnagle in the offseason.

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While the Aggies lost first-round draft pick Braden Montgomery, they do bring back plenty of talent, including Jace LaViolette, Gavin Grahovac, Kaeden Kent and Caden Sorrell. The Longhorns, meanwhile, return last year’s Big 12 Player of the Year, Max Belyeu, along with an influx of new talent.

Here’s where Texas and Texas A&M are ranked in Baseball America’s early top 25 rankings, along with the rest of the teams included:

Texas A&M is the highest-rated team from the state of Texas in Baseball America’s top 25, at No. 5 overall. That said, the Aggies are only the third highest-ranked team from the SEC, behind No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Florida.

The Longhorns, meanwhile, come in at No. 19 overall. They are the 10th of 11 SEC teams in the top 25, leading only No. 23 Kentucky. Schlossnagle’s new squad trails LSU, Florida, Texas A&M, No. 7 Tennessee, No. 8 Arkansas, No. 11 Georgia, No. 16 Mississippi State, No. 17 South Carolina and No. 18 Vanderbilt.

Here’s the full rankings, courtesy of Baseball America.

Texas and Texas A&M are bolded.

  1. LSU

  2. Florida

  3. Florida State

  4. Clemson

  5. Texas A&M

  6. Virginia

  7. Tennessee

  8. Arkansas

  9. Duke

  10. Oregon State

  11. Georgia

  12. North Carolina

  13. NC State

  14. Oregon

  15. Oklahoma State

  16. Mississippi State

  17. South Carolina

  18. Vanderbilt

  19. Texas

  20. Arizona

  21. Indiana

  22. Stanford

  23. Kentucky

  24. Southern Miss

  25. Wake Forest

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Where do Texas, Texas A&M rank in Baseball America ‘way too early’ top 25?

 

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