Week three of the college baseball season is in the books, with one of Mississippi’s major Division 1 programs falling out of the D1 Baseball top 25 and the other two advancing in the poll.
Preseason No. 18 Mississippi State (7-4) is absent in the rankings for the first time in the 2025 campaign after a 1-3 week.
No. 19 Troy knocked the Bulldogs off 6-5 to start the week before a trip to Texas for the Astros Foundation College Classic. MSU opened the weekend in Houston with a 14-3 route of Rice, but fell 6-5 to Arizona and 9-7 to No. 25 Oklahoma State 9-7 for a tough finish to the round-robin tournament.
The unranked maroon and white will aim to respond in a rematch against No. 20 Southern Miss on Tuesday in Starkville before another home weekend series against Queens University.
No. 17 Ole Miss (10-1) was a perfect 4-0 on the week, highlighted by a 15-8 bludgeoning of No. 20 Southern Miss in Oxford. The eight-spot jump was the most by any team in this week’s poll.
The Rebels rolled through Wright State for a home weekend sweep, outscoring the Rowdy Raiders 24-7 over the series. Hunter Elliot and Riley Maddox dazzled on the mound Friday and Saturday, while Judd Utermark had a landmark weekend homering in all three contests.
This week will be jam-packed full of baseball with 5 games on the docket – all of them at Oxford-University Stadium. First up are midweeks against Southeastern Louisiana and Murray State before the final nonconference series against Conference USA opponent Jacksonville State.
No. 20 Southern Miss (9-3) jumped two spots after a bounce-back road series win over then-top 25 TCU.
Entering game two of the series against the Horned Frogs, the Golden Eagles had lost three straight dating back to a Sunday loss against Louisiana Tech. Christian Ostrander’s club gave up 16 free passes in the 7-run loss to Ole Miss Tuesday and stayed in the loss column after a 5-2 defeat in the opener against TCU.
But the next two days were a rousing success as the black and gold posted a 5-3 win to even the weekend and an 11-3 blowout victory on Sunday to claim the series.
Southern Miss moves on to another challenging nonconference week, traveling to take on Mississippi State in Starkville Tuesday before a three-game series with back-to-back NCAA Tournament participant UNC-Wilmington.
The full top 25 can be found below:
- LSU
- Tennessee
- Arkansas
- North Carolina
- Georgia
- Florida State
- Florida
- Oregon State
- Virginia
- Oregon
- Clemson
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- Texas A&M
- Wake Forest
- UC Santa Barbara
- Ole Miss
- Vanderbilt
- Troy
- Southern Miss
- Dallas Baptist
- Auburn
- Alabama
- Coastal Carolina
- Oklahoma State
