The Gators have been ranked ninth in D1Baseball’s preseason poll, which was released on Tuesday morning.
UF was previously ranked No. 6 by Collegiate Baseball and No. 23 by Perfect Game.
The SEC leads all conferences with eight teams in D1Baseball’s top-25. Six of those teams are ranked inside the top-10.
The Gators are scheduled to play eight top-25 teams this season: No. 2 Arkansas, No. 3 Vanderbilt, No. 4 Mississippi State, No. 8 LSU, No. 11 Florida State, No. 16 Georgia, No. 19 Tennessee and No. 25 Miami.
Texas is D1Baseball’s preseason No. 1 team for the first time ever.