It is well documented that I believe that I believe the SEC is going to make some noise on the Road to Omaha, and the selection committee deemed 7 SEC teams worthy of participation. The SEC are sending 4 teams as national seeds: Florida, Texas A&M, Mississippi State and LSU. The 4 national seeds coming from 1 conference sets a record for most national seeds from a single conference in College World Series history.
Did I mention they set another record? The SEC has a record 7 teams serving as host sites, as Vanderbilt, South Carolina, and Ole Miss will be playing at home on their beginning to the Road to Omaha.
Now, the question is, can the conference live up to expectations?
I’ve got my 9 reasons that I think the SEC will eventually be crowned champion at the end of the Road to Omaha, but that was written before the brackets were announced. Now that I see every SEC team that got in is hosting a regional, I feel really good about the SEC’s chance to have a team win it all. So, can I make that 10 reasons?
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A good man from
did all the dirty work (I checked the numbers, they’re solid, but got to give credit where credit is due), and he ranked the hardest regionals by average RPI. What he found can be deemed a bit frightening if you are planning on betting money on any of these SEC teams. Mississippi State is found to have the toughest regional by this measure, and the only non-SEC team ranked in the top 5 most difficult is TCU at number 2. Oxford and Ole Miss sit at 3, Vandy 4, and South Carolina rounds out the top 5.
SEC fans will be out in full force to support their teams as we support baseball strong in this part of the country. Our SEC teams will need every bit of the fan support as it is well known that we are the conference to beat in the country, and everyone will be gunning for us in those 7 regionals. I still feel good about it, and I’d bet that we still push 5 teams through to the next round: Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Florida, and Texas A&M. Playing teams with a high RPI ranking is nothing new to these teams from the SEC, and I expect for the conference to back up the hype on the Road to Omaha.