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Tennessee has falled back to #9 in the RPI.

1. Arkansas (unchanged)
2. Fairfield (up 2 spots) finished season w/ 1 loss
3. Texas (unchanged) Off this weekend
4. Vanderbilt (up 2 sports) despite series loss
5. TCU (unchanged) despite home series loss to #110 ULM
6. Arizona (up 1 spot)
7. Texas Tech (up 2 spots)
8. Mississippi State (down 6 spots)
9. Tennessee (down 1 spot)
10. East Carolina (up 5 spots)
11. South Carolina (up1 spot)
12. Ole Miss (down 1 spot) despite series victory over Vanderbilt

I'm not sure a win today would have increased Vols' position by more than 1 sport due to ugly results from past opponents

#22 Charlotte (lost 2 of 4 @ #179 Rice)
#32 Indiana State (lost 3 of 4 to #73 SIU)
#74 UNCG (lost 2 of 3 @ #57 Samford after upsetting #45 UNC midweek)
#78 GSU (lost 2 of 3 @ #130 Elon)
#79 WCU (lost 2 of 3 to #80 Wofford
#153 GaState (went 3 of 4 on week. Losing to #61 Mercer but sweeping @TX State)
#164 Tenn. Tech (lost 2 of 3 @ #224 UTM)
#168 ETSU (lost 2 of 3 @ #209 VMI)
#218 Austin Peay (won 2 of 3 to #135 Jacksonville State)
#260 Lipscomb (lost 2 of 3 w/ #83 SEMO)

The only real positive is Missouri beating Miss. State but that is cancelled out for the most part by the opponents-of-opponents factor

Obviously, national seeds are not decided by RPI or the Stags would be hosting a very cold southern team in 3 weeks time. The Fairmon stadium can set 350 including 80 premium chairback seats.
South Carolina's big weekend with sweep at Kentucky will help UT's RPI but that is negated to a point because of the midweek game w/ #235 Belmont Q4
Belmont has lost 7 straight and 10 of 11

Until this weekend, the big upsets have been really few in the SEC and nationally. Until today, the biggest upset was UGA over Vanderbilt. The dreadful Missouri team blew that out of the water winning 2 of 3 in Starkville. I figured we were due for an upset weekend this weekend and hoped the Vols would be among that number. Alas, it did not happen. However an injury devastated Ole Miss team did outslug Vanderbilt for 2 wins putting them in real contention as a region host.

The Vols are still in good shape for the first round bye in Hoover.

1- Arkansas 19-8
2- Tennessee 18-9
3- Vanderbilt 17-9

4- Mississippi State 17-10 I'm not sure how the tiebreaker works between MSU and UF. However, Both are on road this weekend but MSU's series against Bama has to be considered
4- Florida 17-10 easier than Florida's trip to Arkansas
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6- Ole Miss 16-11 1.0
7- South Carolina 15-12 2.0
8- Alabama 12-14 4.5
9- Georgia 12-15 5.0 clinched tournament spot
10- LSU 11-16 6.0 (holds tiebreaker over Kentucky)
11- Kentucky 11-16 6.0
12- Auburn 8-19 9.0 (holds tiebreaker over aTm)
13- Texas A&M 8-19 9.0
14- Missouri 7-20 10.0

So, 7 teams are mathematically in contention for the bye. South Carolina would need a ton to go right for them. They'd have to sweep UT and hope for another sweep or 2 infront of them as well.

Tennessee holds the tiebreaker over Florida so the Gators will need beat out UT by at least 1/2 game
For the last spot. Missouri actually holds their fate in their own hands to a degree. They hold a tiebreaker against the Aggies and they host Auburn. Win 2 and win 1 more than Aggies (who host LSU) and they get in.

The cancelled game between Vanderbilt and Alabama continues to loom large.
As a #2 seed, Tennessee would play the winner of a #10/#7 game. So that would be South Carolina and LSU as it stands now.

Tennessee should realistically clinch an opening round bye with a single win unless you think the Gators can sweep the Razorbacks next weekend. It will be very hard to be the #2 seed with Vanderbilt hosting Kentucky. I'm not sure if the Wildcats have clinched a conference spot. They can still be tied by A&M and I don't know who holds the tiebreaker between those 2 as they have not played
 
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My prediction, due to schedule I believe the Vols finish 3rd or 4th. I don't see Kentucky getting within 5 runs of Vanderbilt in any game and I have to believe we lose at least 1 game.

Get swept and we may be playing Tuesday.

Sweep the 'Cocks and we lock in a national seed regardless of what happens in Hoover. As the NCAA is not putting the #2 SEC team outside the top-8

and by the way. . .

GO HOKIES!!!!
 
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Great write up. Thanks a million.

Don’t know why we even care about RPI anymore.
 
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fryeguy93 said:
My prediction, due to schedule I believe the Vols finish 3rd or 4th. I don't see Kentucky getting within 5 runs of Vanderbilt in any game and I have to believe we lose at least 1 game.

Get swept and we may be playing Tuesday.

Sweep the 'Cocks and we lock in a national seed regardless of what happens in Hoover. As the NCAA is not putting the #2 SEC team outside the top-8

and by the way. . .

GO HOKIES!!!!
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Hokies? Why?
 
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ButchPlz said:
I hate Virginia Tech so much I won't cheer for them even if it would theoretically help Tennessee.
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Wouldn’t really help Tennessee
I’m just really SICK of college baseball Yankee affirmative action!
What is the NCAA doing to help spread hockey to southern schools? Field hockey, rasslin, men’s volleyball. Water polo. Beach volleyball. Ugly cheerleading. Etc
 
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fryeguy93 said:
They host Notre Dame
I have a bee in my proverbial bonnet
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I live up here 15 mins from VT and their fans absolutely hate UT. Also when D1 baseball had them projected in our regional, they were talking all kinds of crap about how they would kick our ass. Since then they've fallen flat on their faces and are a bad baseball team. I agree though ND stinks and wish VT would beat them.
 
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OrngeJuiceJones said:
I live up here 15 mins from VT and their fans absolutely hate UT. Also when D1 baseball had them projected in our regional, they were talking all kinds of crap about how they would kick our ass. Since then they've fallen flat on their faces and are a bad baseball team. I agree though ND stinks and wish VT would beat them.
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Jokes on them they live in a ruined State
 
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I appreciate NC State is playing better; but to jump them to 15 is a laughable stretch even with Baseball America. They finished 5 games behind an overrated Notre Dame team in conference
 
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fryeguy93 said:
By the way, if you switched Notre Dame and Miss State, if that were 8 national seeds; no SEC teams would compete in supers
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Dear God. Can you imagine a 4/13 Super Regional with Florida with a CWS appearance on the line.

NO THANK YOU. Lol
 
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fryeguy93 said:
Collegiate Baseball
Up 1 spot
Behind 2 teams that are behind UT in standings

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I don’t get the love for MSU. We have a better or equal record vs. common opponents in the SEC, swept a team on the road who beat their ass at home and faired better than them vs. the top 2 teams, albeit by only 1 game but as you said, that’s enough to put us ahead of them in the league. The only real difference is they played OM whereas we played UF. Considering UF took that series from OM and we beat UF, you could argue we played an equal to better SEC slate than them; (UGA=Bama), (UK > AU), (Mizzou > AM). Put Mizzou ahead of AM simply because they won that series.
 
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When I see all the Big 12 love, I remember the first week of the season.

TCU/TX/TT vs AR/MS/MSU

SEC won 8 of 9 games.

TCU beat MSU for only Big 12 win.
 
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