re: D1 Regional Projections: May 27 - LSU #5 Seed

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But I was told on here that the SECT didn’t matter.

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you were told right.

The goal is to get a national seed so we'd have home field in the supers (and miss out on a really good 2 seed in the regional). Beyond that, the pairings are meaningless.
Worried about a 1-4 Omaha matchup with Wake Forest? Do you think they want to face Skenes in game 1?

Worried about facing an SEC team in the Supers? It looks like there will be 10 SEC teams in the postseason, and the committee will try to avoid having the CWS be an all-SEC affair; so go ahead and expect to see plenty of SEC-SEC supers. There are going to be 4 SEC national seeds- LSU, Arkansas, Florida and Vandy. They will almost certainly end up paired with Bama, Auburn, Kentucky, and one of the regionals Tennessee and South Carolina are in. South Carolina, if they go to Coastal, will be the defacto favorite there. Similarly, if Tennessee ends up at Indiana State, they also should advance.

The Supers will be set up with a path for Wake, Stanford, Clemson, and SEC teams. It is what it is.