LSU still bookies’ favorites after being knocked off their perch for first time this season

NCAA baseball is a weird and wonderful world, where polls and opinions hold sway. Realistically there is no better way to deal with the thousands of schools and conferences with all of the permutations of who plays who, quality of opposition, and plain old win-loss records. But even with all of that in mind, week 12 was a strange one.

Three things of note happened last weekend.

Firstly, the LSU Tigers dropped their series to Auburn in emphatic fashion, losing on Saturday before ignominiously succumbing to the ten-run-rule on Sunday.

This combined with number two Wake Forest winning their weekend series was sufficient to drop the Tigers out of the top spot and hand that honor to the Demon Deacons for the first time since their 1955 national championship.

And the third, and perhaps most telling notable event was that none of this seemed to matter to odds makers, who still have LSU as +400 favorites to win the College World Series. Wake Forest improved their odds to +800 and there is no other team in the country below +1000.

A home win against Northwestern State for LSU has teed them up for a stiff home series against Mississippi State this weekend, as they try to regain the number one ranking.

In much the same vein, Wake Forest trounced UNC Greensboro to set up their weekend series against Florida State. If they win, they will see their odds shorten in the coming week, for sure.

Here is a look at the current D1 Baseball rankings as we head into Week 13.