Vanderbilt Baseball Mail Bag #4: Answers to your Questions

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty ImagesQuestion from KnockinOnHeavensDore:

1) Do you attribute SEC teams doing poorly early to just teams settling in, or is the SEC just less competitive this year?

2) Why is Texas ranked ahead of us this morning in the D1 baseball poll despite them losing the South Carolina series and us only losing two games to a #11 Okie State?

1) “Poorly” is a relative term. I mean, if you check the rankings (go ahead and click those links in my answer to question #2), there are either 7 or 8 SEC teams ranked in the top 25 right now in the big three rankings (again, see below). Really, it’s just Clanga who is down relative to pre-season expectations, and…