Baseball fans, it’s officially game week!  And at this point, any preseason poll that matters is released.

The ACC coaches released their preseason poll last week. And the seven major national polls have finished trickling out over the course of 2021.

Let’s take a look at how the Hoos stack up according to the experts.

Up first, we’ll look at the ACC preseason poll before looking at the national polls.

ACC Preseason Coaches Poll

The league’s fourteen coaches cast votes for the Atlantic and Coastal divisions, division winners, and an overall league champion.

Atlantic Division

Coastal Division

As can be expected from the tables above, Louisville was the coaches’ pick to win the league overall.

National Polls

Unlike basketball and football who have two major polls, college baseball features seven. Some of those polls feature the traditional twenty-five teams while others rank as many as fifty teams.

For the 2021 poll, the seven major polls in college baseball are: Baseball America, College Baseball Nation, Collegiate Baseball, D1 Baseball, NCBWA (baseball writers), Perfect Game, and USA Today Coaches.

The Hoos are one of just fifteen teams to be ranked in each of the seven national baseball polls.

And according to College Baseball Nation’s national composite poll, the Hoos are ranked 9th overall in the country.

The Preseason Polls have all been released..here is the composite preseason top 25! pic.twitter.com/bfdOaxvIAz

— College Baseball Nation (@CollegeBallNat) February 4, 2021