Our pre-conferences Power Rankings for the 2025-2026 were released earlier this week on the men’s side. Texas led the way as all seven SwimSwam writers voted that the Longhorns would defend their NCAA title. We’ve decided to let the public have a little say in what they think will happen.
In our new series called “over/unders” we will use the comment section to allow the public to have a voice. If you think the team will do better than or equal to our pick you will use the + (upvote), if you think the team will do worse than our pick, you will use the – (downvote).
- Example: If you think the Florida men will finish 5th or higher, hit the + to upvote, if you think they will finish 8th or lower hit the – to downvote.
Over/under is a typical wager used in sports-books. With this, no money will be involved. Simply put, we do the rankings, you have fun and upvote or downvote what we picked, have some friendly debate in the comments.
SwimSwam Men’s Power Rankings (Pre-Conferences)
| Post-Invite Rank | Team |
Pre-Conferences Rank
|
| 1 | Texas | 1 |
| 2 | Arizona State | 2 |
| 3 | Indiana | 3 |
| 4 | Georgia | 4 |
| 5 | Florida | 5 |
| 6 | NC State | 6 |
| 7 | Cal | 7 |
| 9 | Tennessee | 8 |
| 8 | Stanford | 9 |
| 10 | Florida State | 9 |
| 11 | Louisville | 11 |
| 14 | Virginia | 12 |
| 12 | LSU | 13 |
| 15 | Ohio State | 14 |
| 13 | Michigan | 15 |
| 17 | USC | 16 |
| 16 | Auburn | 17 |
| 18 | Arizona | 18 |
| 21 | Missouri | 19 |
| HM | Northwestern | 20 |
| 19 | Alabama | 21 |
| HM | Purdue | 22 |
| 20 | Army | 23 |
| 24 | Yale | 24 |
| 25 | Penn State | 25 |
Last Over/Unders Voting:
| Rank | Team | Upvotes | Downvotes |
Undervalued (>1), Overvalued (<1)
|
| 1 | Texas | 76 | 9 | 8.44 |
| 2 | Arizona State | 56 | 23 | 2.43 |
| 3 | Indiana | 46 | 24 | 1.92 |
| 4 | Georgia | 20 | 55 | 0.36 |
| 5 | Florida | 32 | 37 | 0.86 |
| 6 | NC State | 41 | 25 | 1.64 |
| 7 | Cal | 76 | 8 | 9.50 |
| 8 | Stanford | 29 | 32 | 0.91 |
| 9 | Tennessee | 43 | 13 | 3.31 |
| 10 | Florida State | 16 | 46 | 0.35 |
| 11 | Louisville | 34 | 11 | 3.09 |
| 12 | LSU | 12 | 47 | 0.26 |
| 13 | Michigan | 44 | 12 | 3.67 |
| 14 | Virginia | 31 | 94 | 0.33 |
| 15 | Ohio State | 30 | 24 | 1.25 |
Based af
Over/under the Michigan men finish 15th at the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championships
Over/under the Ohio State men finish 14th at the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championships
Over/under the LSU men finish 13th at the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championships
Over/under the Virginia men finish 12th at the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championships
This won’t get one over😂😂
yeah. If it were the Virginia Women finishing 12 at the Men’s then maybe 🙂
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I heard Todd just texted the team to come here and upvote this comment
Sergile completely missing from ACC (and very likely NCAA) psych sheet, that did it for me. He was essential to them bagging a lot of points in the 800fr-r and could have been an individual point scorer if he had a similar arc to last year, when he dropped a bunch of time.
It’s getting impossible to stay optimistic about them when so many swimmers have gone that way – like Noah Nichols vanishing last year, etc. I hope Todd and the men can prove me wrong but even I might be getting on the lost cause bandwagon. Maybe they really should hire a separate men’s coach.
Over/under the Louisville men finish 11th at the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championships
Over/under the Stanford men finish 9th at the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championships
Over/under the Florida State men finish 9th at the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championships
The hate is crazy