The Top College Programs Of The 64-Team Era
Ranking teams based on how we think they'll do this year wasn't enough for our 2007 College Preview. As we did in our 1997 College Preview, we decided to rank the programs themselves over a longer period of time performing a quantitative analysis of the top college programs to find out who comes out on top over the last eight seasons. Teams were ranked on winning percentage, postseason success, number of players in the major leagues and All-Americans. We factor a school's winning tradition and quality of players in arriving at a final score.
In the previous Baseball America survey we considered the 1990s only. This time we examine the years from 1999 to 2006, which coincided with the implementation of the 64-team field for the NCAA tournament and with the change in rules govering the performance of aluminum bats. Subscribers can check our work with a complete table that lists all the rankings in 11 different categories
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PrintRanking teams based on how we think they'll do this year wasn't enough for our 2007 College Preview. As we did in our 1997 College Preview, we decided to rank the programs themselves over a longer period of time performing a quantitative analysis of the top college programs to find out who comes out on top over the last eight seasons. Teams were ranked on winning percentage, postseason success, number of players in the major leagues and All-Americans. We factor a school's winning tradition and quality of players in arriving at a final score.
In the previous Baseball America survey we considered the 1990s only. This time we examine the years from 1999 to 2006, which coincided with the implementation of the 64-team field for the NCAA tournament and with the change in rules govering the performance of aluminum bats. Subscribers can check our work with a complete table that lists all the rankings in 11 different categories
.| RANK | SCHOOL |
| 1. | Texas |
| 2. | Miami |
| 3. | Stanford |
| 4. | Cal State Fullerton |
| 5. | Rice |
| 6. | Louisiana State |
| 7. | Florida State |
| 8. | Clemson |
| 9. | South Carolina |
| 10. | Southern California |
| 11. | Nebraska |
| 12. | Georgia Tech |
| 13. | Arizona State |
| 14. | North Carolina |
| 15. | Long Beach State |
| 16. | Tulane |
| 17. | Baylor |
| 18. | Florida |
| 19. | Houston |
| 20. | Notre Dame |
| 21. | Alabama |
| 22. | Wichita State |
| 23. | Arizona |
| 24. | Texas A&M |
| 25. | Mississippi State |
| 26. | Tennessee |
| 27. | Oregon State |
| 28. | Georgia |
| 29. | Oklahoma State |
| 30. | UCLA |
| 31. | Arkansas |
| 32. | Pepperdine |
| 33. | Mississippi |
| 34. | Auburn |
| 35. | Oklahoma |
| 36. | Wake Forest |
| 37. | East Carolina |
| 38. | Fresno State |
| 39. | South Alabama |
| 40. | Texas Tech |
| 41. | Florida Atlantic |
| 42. | Oral Roberts |
| 43. | Louisiana-Lafayette |
| 44. | Southern |
| 45. | North Carolina State |
| 46. | Ohio State |
| 47. | Central Florida |
| 48. | Minnesota |
| 49. | Virginia Commonwealth |
| 50. | Stetson |
| 51. | Missouri State |
| 52. | Richmond |
| 53. | Southern Mississippi |
| 54. | Michigan |
| 55. | California |
| 56. | Florida International |
| 57. | San Diego State |
| 58. | Rutgers |
| 59. | Missouri |
| 60. | Kent State |
| 61. | Washington |
| 62. | Ball State |
| 63. | Coastal Carolina |
| 64. | Vanderbilt |
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