RPI rankings for every SEC baseball team ahead of 2025 SEC Tournament
RPI rankings for every SEC baseball team ahead of 2025 SEC Tournament
The 2025 Southeastern Conference Tournament will begin Tuesday with all 16 league teams competing in a single-elimination format.
The league's postseason tournament's first game will feature No. 9 seed Alabama (40-15, 16-14 SEC) against No. 16 seed Missouri (16-38, 3-27 SEC) at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. First pitch is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. EDT and will be televised by SEC Network.
No. 8 seed Tennessee (41-15, 16-14 SEC) will face the winner of the Alabama-Missouri first-round matchup. The Vols will open SEC Tournament play Wednesday in the second round at 10:30 a.m. EDT (SEC Network). Tennessee won a three-game series, 2-1, at Alabama during the regular season March 20-22. The Vols did not face Missouri in 2025.
The Vols enter postseason play ranked No. 17 in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll.
Ahead of Tuesday's opening game in Hoover, Vols Wire looks at RPI rankings for all 16 SEC baseball teams following the regular season.
More: 2025 SEC baseball tournament schedule, game times, TV channel
More: Final 2025 SEC baseball regular season standings
SEC baseball RPI rankings for 2025 regular season
Team RPI Georgia (42-14) 1 Auburn (38-17) 2 Vanderbilt (39-16) 3 Texas (42-11) 4 Arkansas (43-12) 5 LSU (42-13) 8 Alabama (40-15) 9 Florida (37-19) 13 Tennessee (41-15) 16 Ole Miss (37-18) 18 Oklahoma (33-19) 27 Mississippi State (34-20) 30 Kentucky (29-23) 36 Texas A&M (28-25) 54 South Carolina (28-28) 72 Missouri (16-38) 146
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