Can yall stop with this who "got" to play who? We played them and won.

Oregon "got" to play Ohio St whos the worst power conference team in america by far....and lost the series. RPI: 231

Missouri is almost 100 points better in RPI at 142

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Posted by MikeTheTiger71

Member since Dec 2021

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Posted on 5/26/25 at 9:14 am to WestSideTiger

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LSU gets a national seed but they do look at head to head results if standings are close.

I just wouldn’t consider the standings close vs Auburn in this case. LSU was 2 games ahead of Auburn and tied for 3rd vs 6th in the standings. I think that 6th place standing is going to be a significant anchor for Auburn. There is no precedent for a team being 6th in conference and earning a national seed.

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Georgia swept Auburn swept LSU

LSU > Arkansas > Georgia > Auburn. Auburn was swept twice. Yes, the one head-to-head series favors Auburn. Nothing else does when it comes to conference performance and standings.

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Their RPI’s were 1 and 3. A&M was 2 but didn’t win a game in the SEC tournament. They did get 3rd national seed and Ark actually had a better conference record than A&M but got 5th national seed due to RPI of 6 and they lost their series against A&M.

Tennessee and Kentucky were 1-2 in the conference standings and the 1-2 seeds (despite A&M’s higher RPI vs Kentucky), but you are right that A&M got the nod over Arkansas with a 1-game deficit in the standings due to RPI and head-to-head. I don’t think that’s the same as a 2-game difference and 3 places in the standings.

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A&M finished 2nd with 19 wins and also won their series against every SEC team with better RPI’s except Auburn who finished 5th with only 16 SEC wins and didn’t win a game in Hoover.

How is that materially different from LSU having 19 conference wins and being 3 places higher than an Auburn team this year who didn’t win in Hoover?

I get that in many of the cases where the team with a higher RPI was multiple games behind other teams in the standings, but there is also no example of a team being more than 1 game behind in the standings getting a higher seed. There is no example of a team more than one place behind in the standings getting a higher seed and no example of a team lower than 4th in the conference standings getting a higher seed.

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