Georgia Tech earns No. 5 preseason ranking

Staff Reports

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech baseball received more preseason accolades today, earning the No. 5 ranking in the D1 Baseball Preseason Top-25 Poll. This is the second preseason poll of the year that has ranked the Yellow Jackets inside the Top-5, after Perfect Game awarded GT with the No. 2 spot in their preseason poll last week.

This marks the first time in 23 years that Georgia Tech has been ranked in the Top-5 of multiple preseason polls heading into a season (since 2003). It is also the highest preseason ranking in the history of D1 Baseball’s rankings, which began in 2004.

The Yellow Jackets are the highest ranked of eight Atlantic Coast Conference teams in the Top-25 poll, alongside No. 8 Louisville, No. 11 North Carolina, No. 16 Florida State (home series – April 9-11), No. 17 NC State (home series – March 27-29), No. 19 Clemson, No. 21 Wake Forest and No. 22 Miami (Fla.). The ACC has the second-most teams in the Top-25, only behind the SEC.

Georgia Tech enters the 2026 season with the most preseason All-Americans in the nation, according to Perfect Game’s Preseason All-American list. The Jackets received four All-American nods, including being the only program in the nation with multiple players listed on the 1^st Team: CF Drew Burress (1^st Team) C Vahn Lackey (1^st Team) 2B Jarren Advincula (2^nd Team) UTL Alex Hernandez (3^rd Team).

2026 will be the first season for new Head Coach James Ramsey who has been serving as an assistant coach for the past seven seasons. Since Ramsey took over coaching the offense in 2019, Georgia Tech leads the ACC in batting average (.308), OPS (.918), OBP (.408), hits (3,961), doubles (796) and SAC Flies (208) and is second in runs (2,937), triples (84), home runs (547), RBI (2,709) and slugging (.510) with more to come in 2026.

First pitch for the highly anticipated 2026 season is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 13 at 4 p.m. when the Yellow Jackets host Bowling Green for a three-game series at Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium.