re: Where LSU fits in the top 8 national seed picture

Final final predictions.

So the committee did what I felt they should do, and not what I thought they would do. That's a positive sign towards the committee not being baffons. With that said, it'll cause a shake up in how I think the top 16 will land. This is a hell of a lot harder to predict than just naming the host sites, so I'm sure they make a fool of me tomorrow morning. But here we go.

1. Wake Forest
2. Florida
3. Arkansas

(Pretty certain the top three will be these in some order, with Wake being #1. It's splitting hairs between Arkansas and Florida, but I'm going with UF's Q1 wins and road record over Arkansas' RPI and SOS. It depends on emphasis here, on which order they go).

4. Clemson
5. Vandy
6. LSU

(These three should be in some order too. Here I'm going with emphasis being put on the hotter teams. Clemson and Vandy hold Q1 record over LSU too, so I'm sliding us into the 6 spot)

7. Stanford
8. Miami

(It gets tricky here. I don't feel Stanford belongs, but I think they will be rewarded for running through the pac during the regular season. I also think they will want at least one non SEC/ACC team here. I'm going to give the nod to Miami because nobody else really seemed to want these final two spots. I think an SEC is more deserving, but they won't give it, so Miami is the next best option).

9. Virginia
10. Kentucky
11. Oklahoma St
12. Alabama
13. Auburn
14. Coastal Carolina
15. South Carolina
16. Indiana St

(Just taking shots in the dark here. Can't really know what they will weigh heaviest to decide. Just kind of piecing things together to come up with an order.)