The following poll makes up the 1971 NCAA University Division baseball rankings. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.
Currently, only the final poll from the 1972 season is available.[1] [2]
| Rank | Team | |
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| 1 | USC | |
| 2 | Arizona State | |
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| 4 | Texas | |
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| 6 | Connecticut | |
| 7 | Iowa | |
| 8 | Ole Miss | |
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