It's back: our Best of the Ballparks fan vote, College Baseball edition! Our staff has selected 32 of the top Division I ballparks in the NCAA as the base of our our Best of the Ballparks brackets. Five rounds of voting will yield a fan choice for the Best of the Ballparks.
How did we arrive at this list of top college ballparks? We began with a much, much longer list of contenders, but then whittled it down to this final list. College baseball has changed over the last decade with significant upgrades to many NCAA facilities, which makes compiling a list like this to be such a challenge. Some are here because of intense fan popularity, some are here because of great developmental facilities, and some are here because we find them architectually interesting. Because of COVID-19, we have not visited every ballpark on this list, so the rankings for new ballparks are more akin to educated guesses. The rankings are very loose, so please don't take offense if your favorite ballpark has a low seeding in these brackets. If we receive enough interest in a college-baseball vote (more than 10,000 participants), we'll bring it back in 2022 with an expanded 64-ballpark field.
One thing to note: We are not including ballparks also used by professional baseball teams, like PK Park and Haymarket Park. We include these ballparks when we poll fans in those separate categories. We are also not including Omaha's TD Ameritrade Park: yes, it was built to host college baseball, but college baseball on a unique scale.
Here is our schedule:
First Round: Completed
Second Round: Completed
Third Round: Completed
Semifinals Round: Completed
Final Round: Now through April 4, end of day
Round 1
Round 3
Semi-Finals
Championship
