{"id":248937,"date":"2026-04-28T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/248937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:13:07","slug":"florida-baseball-avoids-dropping-out-of-d1baseball-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/248937\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida baseball avoids dropping out of D1Baseball rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 27, 2026, 7:16 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Florida baseball&#8217;s slump continued in Week 11 with a midweek loss to Jacksonville and a series loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/aggieswire.usatoday.com\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M Aggies<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As a result, the Gators dropped four spots in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/d1baseball.com\/stories\/d1baseball-top-25-ucla-remains-no-1-kansas-makes-big-move\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D1Baseball rankings<\/a> from No. 21 to No. 25. Florida suffered the same fate in this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gatorswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/gators\/baseball\/2026\/04\/27\/florida-baseball-coaches-poll-week-11-texas-am-aggies-loss\/89821448007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll<\/a>. That puts them on the cusp of being unranked and behind the No. 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama Crimson Tide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Orange and Blue have now lost six of their last eight games, including four defeats against current top-eight teams. Florida remains in play to host a regional thanks to a strong strength of schedule and RPI ranking, but it will have to right the ship next week against the <a href=\"https:\/\/soonerswire.usatoday.com\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma Sooners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Another weekend like the last two, and Florida will be on the outside of the top 25 looking in.<\/p>\n<p>D1Baseball Top 25 rankings for Week 11RKTEAMRECPREV1UCLA39-412North Carolina36-823Georgia Tech36-734Texas32-945Georgia34-1156Oregon State33-967Texas A&amp;M33-878Auburn30-13119Coastal Carolina30-13910Mississippi State34-101511Kansas33-111612Southern Miss31-131813Oregon32-111914Florida State29-14815Oklahoma29-141416Nebraska33-112017Ole Miss31-141718West Virginia28-121219Arizona State;31-142520Boston College33-142221Southern California34-112322Arkansas29-162423Virginia29-161024Alabama29-161325Florida29-1621Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Dropped out: Nobody<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777335187_159_73904848007-CWS-G3-2.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GatorsWire<\/a>\u00a0on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/gatorswire.bsky.social\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\/florida\" data-autotag=\"13e400dd-2caf-4743-8f66-2d6e34ba4e99\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Florida Gators<\/a> news, notes and opinions.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 27, 2026, 7:16 p.m. ET Florida baseball&#8217;s slump continued in Week 11 with a midweek loss to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,28,30,29,14113,14011,6203,67928,299,39,4814,14012,307,4821,300,34],"class_list":["post-248937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-accessfree","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-sstssportscollegegatorsbaseball","tag-sstsnbaseball","tag-tagbaseball","tag-tagcollege-baseball","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagflorida","tag-tagflorida-gators","tag-tagflorida-gators-baseball","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}