Auburn Baseball ranked 15 preseason

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The ever-deep SEC has a conference leading 8 members on the pre-season list. The ACC comes in just behind them with 6 teams and the Big 12 came in with 4 designations. The evolving Pac 12 checked in with 3 clubs in the poll and the American, Big 10, Big West and Sun Belt caught one team each.
 

Rank	Team		Conference	2023 Record	2023 Finish	Head Coach
1		Wake Forest	ACC	(54-12)	CWS	Tom Walter
2		Arkansas	SEC	(43-18)	Fayetteville Regional	Dave Van Horn
3		LSU	SEC	(54-17)	CWS Champion	Jay Johnson
4		Florida	SEC	(54-17)	CWS Runner-Up	Kevin O'Sullivan
5		TCU	Big 12	(44-24)	CWS	Kirk Saarloos
6		Vanderbilt	SEC	(42-20)	Nashville Regional	Tim Corbin
7		Texas A&M	SEC	(38-27)	Stanford Regional	Jim Schlossnagle
8		Texas	Big 12	(42-22)	Stanford Super Regional	David Pierce
9		Oregon State	Pac 12	(41-20)	Baton Rouge Regional	Mitch Canham
10		Virginia	ACC	(50-15)	CWS	Brian O'Connor
11		Tennessee	SEC	(44-22)	CWS	Tony Vitello
12		Stanford	Pac 12	(44-20)	CWS	Dave Esquer
13		South Carolina	SEC	(42-21)	Gainesville Super Regional	Mark Kingston
14		North Carolina	ACC	(36-24)	Terre Haute Regional	Scott Forbes
15		Auburn	SEC	(34-23-1)	Auburn Regional	Butch Thompson
16		Iowa	Big 10	(44-16)	Terre Haute Regional	Rick Heller
17		East Carolina	American	(47-19)	Charlottesville Regional	Cliff Godwin
18		UCLA	Pac 12	(28-24-1)	No Postseason	John Savage
19		NC State	ACC	(36-21)	Columbia Regional	Elliott Avent
20		Kansas State	Big 12	(35-24)	No Postseason	Pete Hughes
21		Clemson	ACC	(44-19)	Clemson Regional	Erik Bakich
22		Oklahoma State	Big 12	(41-20)	Stillwater Regional	Josh Holliday
23		Duke	ACC	(39-24)	Charlottesville Super Regional	Chris Pollard
24		UC Santa Barbara	Big West	(35-20)	No Postseason	Andrew Checketts
25		Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	(42-21)	Conway Regional	Gary Gilmore