Mississippi State beat Ole Miss on Tuesday night, 2-0. It was another RPI top 10 win for the Bulldogs, bumping them up to 12th. The polls are much kinder to State, however, with Perfect Game and Baseball America ranking them 3rd. D1baseball.com has the Dawgs ranked 6th in the country.
These high marks come on the heels of one of the toughest stretches of games any team in the country will have to play. Five of the six SEC teams State has faced are currently in the top 17 of the RPI. Four of them were ranked in the top 10 at the time, and three of them were on the road.