D1Baseball ranks Texas A&M baseball as preseason no. 1, says Mike Earley can make history
For as much fun as it has been to follow Aggie football this fall, I'm not sure there has been a more anticipated season for Texas A&M baseball than this upcoming one. The Aggies, who fell just short of a championship this past year, return nearly all of the squad that got them one game away from the ultimate prize, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a more motivated group in the entire nation.
That is due in part, of course, to the shenanigans at the end of last season by a man who has become the pariah of the college baseball world: former Texas A&M baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle. The newest member of the cast of misfits down in Austin had a dismount from his previous stop that was roundly mocked by the sports landscape, and now the pressure is on him to produce at a spot where fans who hardly watch the games come in bearing expectations that no one could match.
That ignominious departure also apparently lit a fire under this Aggie team, who returned all of their players that had entered the portal. With a few portal additions themselves, like former Texas Tech star Gavin Kash and erstwhile Ivy League slugger Wyatt Henseler, A&M boasts what could be the best roster in the nation.
With that in mind, it makes total sense that D1Baseball, the standard when it comes to college baseball coverage, has the Aggies as the number one team in the land in the preseason.
🚨D1BASEBALL PRESEASON TOP 25🚨
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) January 13, 2025
It's time, @NCAABaseball fans. The @d1baseball Preseason Top 25 Rankings are LIVE on the site. @AggieBaseball enters the season as the expected No. 1 team.
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The Aggies are the favorites to win the college world series via this ranking, as you might expect. Even though, as Kendall Rogers outlines, no first-year head coach has ever won a title in division one college baseball, Mike Earley has the roster to break that mold.
No first-year head coach has ever won the #MCWS. But @earleybaseball and @AggieBaseball enter 2025 as the preseason favorites.@KendallRogers details Earley's path to this point and why some believe he has what it takes to make history ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/fRvpyHjiJW
— D1Baseball (@d1baseball) January 13, 2025
If he actually does pull this off— well, put it this way: it's the stuff movies are made of. The high drama surrounding everything would make it all too perfect. Here's hoping the Aggies can capitalize this season.