Vanderbilt 1st, USC 12th in composite preseason poll

Defending national champion Vanderbilt is a unanimous pick as the nation's No. 1 team entering the 2015 season, based on a composite of six national preseason rankings.

The Commodores were ranked first in all six polls -- D1baseball.com, PerfectGame.org, USA TODAY, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball -- and got the maxium 150 points.

Virginia was second, with TCU, Florida and LSU rounding out the top five.

South Carolina was the only state school to make the top 25, getting 82 voting points for 12th place.

Clemson was ranked 24th in the Baseball America poll and College of Charleston was 25th in Collegiate Baseball.

Collegiate Baseball (40 spots) and the NCBWA (35) had more than 25 teams in their polls, but only the top 25 were used for the sake of uniformity. So, Clemson's No. 27 ranking in the writers' poll and No. 28 spot in Collegiate Baseball were not counted. Similarly, College of Charleston's No. 35 spot in the writers poll was not included.

Most NCAA Division I teams open their season on Friday.

		Team	D1	PG	USA	Writers	BBA	Col BB	Total
1		Vanderbilt	25	25	25	25	25	25	150
2		Virginia	23	24	24	24	22	23	140
3		TCU	18	23	23	23	19	24	130
4		Florida	24	22	21	21	20	20	128
5		LSU	17	19	22	22	24	22	126
6		Houston	19	18	15	19	23	18	112
7		Texas	16	20	20	20	16	19	111
8		UCLA	22	21	17	17	15	16	108
9		Ok. State	14	13	18.5	18	18	21	102.5
10		Louisville	15	17	18.5	16	14	14	94.5
11		Tex Tech	10	14	13	14	21	17	89
12		S Carolina	21	12	16	15	13	5	82
13		Miami	11	16	12	13	17	12	81
14		FSU	5	15	14	10	5	15	64
15		N Carolina	20	9	11	12	9	2	63
16		Rice	13	5	9	11	11	4	53
17		Oregon	4	11	10	9	6	11	51
18		Fullerton	7	7	7	8	3	9	41
19		Maryland	12	0	6	6	10	0	34
21		Arizona St	2	6	5	5	8	7	33
22		Miss. St	0	3	1	4	12	6	26
23		Ole Miss	8	0	8	7	0	0	23
T24		UCSB	0	8	0	0	0	10	18
T24		Stanford	0	4	4	2	0	8	18
T24		Cal Poly	0	0	2	3	0	13	18
27		Tex A&M	9	1	3	1	0	0	14
28		Arkansas	0	10	0	0	0	0	10
29		Kennesaw	0	2	0	0	7	0	9
30		Alabama	6	0	0	0	0	0	6
T31		UCF	0	0	0	0	4	0	4
T31		Liberty	0	0	0	0	1	3	4
33		Nebraska	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
34		Clemson	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
T35		Tennessee	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
T35		Charleston	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Legend: D1 - D1Baseball.com; PG - PerfectGame.org; USA - USA TODAY coaches; Writers - National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association; BBA - Baseball America; Col BB - Collegiate Baseball. Points awarded on a descending scale based on 25 points for a first-place vote down to 1 point for a 25th-place vote.

Collegiate Baseball (40 spots) and the NCBWA (35) had more than 25 teams in their polls, but only the top 25 were used for the sake of uniformity.

Oklahoma State and Louisville tied for seventh in the USA TODAY coaches poll so the 37 points for seventh (19) and eighth (18) places were split.