The following polls make up the 2000 NCAA Division I baseball rankings. USA Today and ESPN began publishing the Coaches' Poll of 31 active coaches ranking the top 25 teams in the nation in 1992. Each coach is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association. Baseball America began publishing its poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1981. Beginning with the 1985 season, it expanded to the top 25. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.
Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week Italics Number of first place votes (#-#) Win–loss record т Tied with team above or below also with this symbol
USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll Currently, only the final poll from the 2000 season is available. RankTeam 1 LSU 2 Stanford 3 Florida State 4 Southern California 5 Clemson 6 7 Texas 8 9 10 11 12 Houston 13 14 15 UCLA 16 17 18 19 20 21 Florida 22 23 24 25
Baseball America Currently, only the final poll from the 2000 season is available. RankTeam 1 LSU 2 Stanford 3 Florida State 4 5 Southern California 6 7 Clemson 8 9 10 Texas 11 Houston 12 13 14 15 16 17 UCLA 18 19 20 Florida 21 22 23 24 25
Collegiate Baseball
The pre-season poll ranked the top 40 teams. Those not listed in the table above were: 31. ; 32. ; 33. ; 34. ; 35. ; 36. ; 37. ; 38. ; 39. ; 40.
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