Hogs at No. 5 in USA Today Preseason Top 25

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas is ranked No. 5 in USA Today’s preseason coaches poll.

Nine SEC teams are in the preseason top 25, including five programs in the top 10. It marks Arkansas’ fourth top 10 ranking of the preseason, as the Razorbacks were previously ranked No. 4 in Perfect Game’s preseason top 25, No. 7 in D1Baseball’s preseason top 25 and No. 10 in Baseball America’s preseason top 25.

Dating back to 2017, Arkansas has been ranked in 126 consecutive USA Today Coaches Poll, marking the longest active streak in college baseball. The Razorbacks have been ranked in the top 10 for 77 of the past 80 polls.

The Hogs, led by 24th-year head coach Dave Van Horn, begin the 2026 season against Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13 in the Shriners Children’s College Showdown at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. In 2025, Arkansas went 50-15 overall and 20-10 in SEC play to clinch its sixth 20-win SEC campaign and make its 12th trip to Omaha in program history.

Arkansas, the winningest team in the nation since the start of the 2017 campaign with 383 total victories, is the only SEC program, and one of only two programs in the country along with Southern Miss, to win 40-plus games in each of the last eight full seasons: 2017 (45), 2018 (48), 2019 (46), 2021 (50), 2022 (46), 2023 (43), 2024 (44) and 2025 (50).

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