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re: College Baseball Top 8 National Seed Picture

Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:29 am to
Posted by Tiger2tiga
Member since Sep 2023
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Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:29 am to
That’s why I think LSU should schedule 1 marquee series a season. It would improve their sos. And with this record and a top 10 sos, a top 8 national seed would be a lock right now
Posted by Hold That Tiger 10
Member since Oct 2013
24821 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:30 am to
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Will be 5 with 2 ACC schools and Oregon State.


Depending on what happens with FSU/UNC this weekend, along with Clemson in the ACCT you could end up with 2 teams in the top 8 that will have FAR worse resumes than 2-3 teams you leave out.
Posted by paulb52
Member since Dec 2019
7579 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:31 am to
Number of teams from SEC, or any conference, shouldn’t matter if they are picking top 8 national seeds. If most are SEC then it is, what it is. You can’t penalize a team just because they already have “too many” teams from that conference. Just take top eight, period.
Posted by Hold That Tiger 10
Member since Oct 2013
24821 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:31 am to
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That’s why I think LSU should schedule 1 marquee series a season. It would improve their sos. And with this record and a top 10 sos, a top 8 national seed would be a lock right now


Nothing about our schedule is keeping us out. If you are a good team and take care of business, it all comes down to SEC play.
Posted by GeismarGeauxer
Geismar
Member since Dec 2009
5245 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:32 am to
Good stuff.
But FSU doesn’t have 10 Q4 losses.
I suspect 0 for math to work for overall losses.
Posted by TigerphanTigerman
Member since Jul 2019
514 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:33 am to
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Can’t see the committee giving the SEC 6 super hosts even though it would be deserved. Will be 5 with 2 ACC schools and Oregon State. Have to have a west coast team. Oregon and UCLA are jokes.


Is there any evidence that they would do this from prior years? It's seems that rewarding a top 8 seed due to geography rather than merit is pure corruption.

That's for the West coast teams to figure out the logistics of traveling across the country
This post was edited on 5/12/25 at 8:35 am
Posted by Hold That Tiger 10
Member since Oct 2013
24821 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:34 am to
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But FSU doesn’t have 10 Q4 losses.
I suspect 0 for math to work for overall losses


Correct, it's 0. Fat fingered a 1 before it. Thanks for catching.
Posted by wfallstiger
Wichita Falls, Texas
Member since Jun 2006
14799 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:35 am to
Big Ben said as much.. the LSU-ARK series winner in his view
Posted by Alt26
Member since Mar 2010
34229 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:49 am to
I think the SEC gets 4 seeds
The ACC gets (at least) 2
A West coast team (Oregon St, UCLA, etc) will get 1 or 2

IMO, Texas and Arkansas are locked in from the SEC

LSU is on the brink of being a lock. A win yesterday probably would have locked LSU (because of the opponent). Looking ahead to this week 1 win would probably lock LSU in (~70% chance). 2 wins put the likelihood at 90+%. 3 wins locks it completely.

Then you have the group of Georgia, Auburn, Vandy, Tennessee, Alabama that are all right behind LSU trying to grab the final 1 or 2 top 8 seeds.

LSU doesn't have to sweep this weekend....but they can't pull an A&M and get swept by a really bad team.
Posted by Bacon84
Texas
Member since Oct 2012
1351 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:53 am to
that's fair.
but, I'd like to see us as a top 4...
This post was edited on 5/12/25 at 8:54 am
Posted by ell_13
Member since Apr 2013
87208 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:54 am to
The most was 5 teams. Happened last year. And the sec is way stronger than last year.
Posted by liquid rabbit
Boxtard BPB®© emeritus
Member since Mar 2006
64560 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:55 am to
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GEORGIA
40-10 (16-11)

Incredible that Georgia has lost more SEC games than they have overall.
Posted by Yeti_Chaser
Member since Nov 2017
11893 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:55 am to
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I think the SEC gets 4 seeds

quote:

Texas and Arkansas are locked in from the SEC

LSU is on the brink of being a lock

If that's the case you think the committee is going to leave out 2 of the top 3 teams in RPI?
Posted by Jim Hopper
Ocean Springs Mississippi
Member since Sep 2019
4441 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:55 am to
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I think the SEC gets 4 seeds The ACC gets (at least) 2 A West coast team (Oregon St, UCLA, etc) will get 1 or 2
SEC will get 5 imo. ACC will get 2 and one of the west coast teams will get the last remaining one.
This post was edited on 5/12/25 at 1:36 pm
Posted by Yeti_Chaser
Member since Nov 2017
11893 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 9:03 am to
Do you think Missouri finally winning a series has any effect on how the committee views SEC standings? Previously they could argue the teams that played Mizzou (LSU, Texas, Arkansas, and UGA) got 3 free SEC wins and you could argue that a team with a better RPI that didn't play Mizzou (Auburn or Vandy) should get in before a team above them with more SEC wins
This post was edited on 5/12/25 at 9:04 am
Posted by Tiger2tiga
Member since Sep 2023
1214 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 9:11 am to
I just see someone starting a post debating on top 8 seed like it’s not a lock. So I assume only thing that keeping lsu from being a lock right now was the sos.
Posted by Mad Dogg
LA
Member since Sep 2016
4071 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 9:16 am to
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GEORGIA 40-10 (16-11) Incredible that Georgia has lost more SEC games than they have overall

It goes to show you just how tough the SEC is this year
Posted by bayoubengal014
Member since Dec 2017
213 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 9:24 am to
LSU sweeps SC this weekend they’ll be the #1 overall seed.
Posted by Double Oh
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2008
23446 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 9:30 am to
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LSU needs to sweep SC…
That’s all we can control!

I think 2 gets us a top 8 seed, and a sweep virtually ensures it.




You way off.

1 gets us a Top 8 seed

2 gets us a Top 4

a sweep might get you a Top 2


Hell if we get swept i think we get a Top 8
Posted by MikeTheTiger71
Member since Dec 2021
4304 posts
Posted on 5/12/25 at 9:31 am to
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That’s why I think LSU should schedule 1 marquee series a season. It would improve their sos. And with this record and a top 10 sos, a top 8 national seed would be a lock right now


It’s not the lack of top end opponents that’s hurting LSU’s RPI. It’s the weakness of the W/L record of a couple of the non-conference opponents early and especially the midweek opponents. Auburn, Georgia, and Vandy all have teams with better records in close proximity for midweek games making the difference in RPI and putting pressure on LSU for the Top 8.
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