FINAL SEASON RANKING
2019 – 3rd
2018 – 1st
2017 – 4th
2016 – 5th
2015 – 11th
2014 – 8th
2013 – 4th
2012 – 3rd
2011 – 2nd
2010 – 1st

THE 2019 STORY
UCLA did quite well throughout 2019, recording some remarkable scores and showing a performance consistency from the very first week of the season we don’t always see from this team.

Coming off a national title the previous season, however, a 3rd-place finish is always going to feel like a letdown. Heading into 2019, another title looked like a very real possibility for UCLA, and it didn’t happen. UCLA spent the year as the #2 team and most likely challenger to Oklahoma but just didn’t bring it in the final and ended up at #3.

FINAL SEASON RANKING
2019 – 7th
2018 – 5th
2017 – 5th
2016 – 9th
2015 – 2nd
2014 – 7th
2013 – 9th
2012 – 5th
2011 – 5th
2010 – 6th

THE 2019 STORY
Utah’s 2019 season will go down as acceptable yet ultimately unsatisfying. The team continued its streak of having advanced to every nationals despite it becoming a lot harder to do that in 2019 (so job #1 done), but also it’s Utah. No one’s going to be hanging banners about a 7th-place finish.

Utah spent the 2019 regular season ranked 4-6, so 7th will also feel somewhat under-representative of the team’s quality, a result mostly based on a 9.7-athon on beam in the national semifinal that put Utah 4th in the session.

FINAL SEASON RANKING
2019 – 6th
2018 – 27th
2017 – 11th
2016 – 14th
2015 – 12th
2014 – 13th
2013 – 16th
2012 – 12th
2011 – 8th
2010 – 8th

THE 2019 STORY
Gotta be good and gotta be lucky. Obviously, the 2019 season was basically the best thing that has ever happened to Oregon State, resulting the program’s best finish since 1996 and a trip to nationals that literally no one saw coming.

Oregon State got to host regionals, Florida fell apart on beam, and the Beavs were right there to say, “Thank you very much” and even snatch a 6th-place national finish…and come really, really close to making the final…after spending the meat of the regular season in the 14-15 ranking zone.

FINAL SEASON RANKING
2019 – 14th
2018 – 6th
2017 – 7th
2016 – 8th
2015 – 8th
2014 – 6th
2013 – 14th
2012 – 8th
2011 – 4th
2010 – 7th

THE 2019 STORY
Nebraska wasn’t quite able to keep up its run of oh damn, Nebraska’s good perennial postseason semi-surprises in 2019, instead throwing in one of its occasional 14th-place finishes. Issues with depth and consistency kept Nebraska ranked in the deeper part of the teens for most of the season, but the team couldn’t really have expected too much better at the end, advancing to the regional final and putting up a solid 196.6 there in falling to UCLA, Michigan, and Alabama.

It was actually the kind of typically Nebraska regionals performance that could have snatched a position at nationals under the old format, but no longer.

FINAL SEASON RANKING
2019 – 18th
2018 – 10th
2017 – 19th
2016 – 20th
2015 – 14th
2014 – 15th
2013 – 10th
2012 – 6th
2011 – 10th
2010 – 11th

THE 2019 STORY
Arkansas finished 2019 with one of its weaker rankings historically at just 18th place, but after a season spent at #20, Arkansas will feel that the way things ended—a respectable 5th-place result at SECs and then coming just .125 from making the regional final—was a high note. At times during the year, it looked like things would go worse than that.