Rankings 3/13/2023

#8
#8
Arkansas has two losses by a combined 21 runs.

Perfect Game: Thatā€™s the third best team in the country!
 
#14
#14
A good "office pool" would be predicting when Tennessee will first appear in the RPI, and at what spot.

What are the predictions here?
 
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#15
#15
With conference play starting, no way we'll see some of these things continue

In D1- 6 of top-7 are SEC
BA- 6 of top-8
CB -5 of top 8
PG- 6 of top-9
Coaches- 6 of top-8
NCBWA- 6 of top-8

However, SEC teams will start shooting up the RPI as SOS improves exponentially.

Three opening weekend series involve two ranked teams (D1 Poll)

(3) Mississippi at (6) Vanderbilt
(1) LSU at (15) Texas A&M
(24) Alabama at (5) Florida

Three series involved a single ranked team

(2) Tennessee at Missouri
Auburn @ (7) Arkansas
(16) South Carolina at Georgia

Only one series involves unranked teams

Mississippi State at Kentucky

Miss State (12-5) is the only team that I think is not good (right now) The Bulldogs did have decent wins this week against Nicholls and UL.
Kentucky has played one quality opponent this far (Elon series 2-1) but beat an "ok" Indiana on Tuesday.

Vanderbilt has 5 losses with some questionable losses to Central Ark, Nebraska, and LMU. Concerning? 4 of the 5 losses came on weekend and 2 on Friday games. The Commodores bear watching as these weekend struggles may be a red flag. The Rebels (14-2) have only 1 weekend loss out of 3 losses. It's fortunate for Vanderbilt that they host this weekend. This series starts on Thursday- which is ok because their fans aren't watching their basketball teams in NCAA anyway. Mississippi lost on Tuesday at Jacksonville St for their 3rd loss

Weather is going to effect two series in COMO and Lexington. Lexington will not get cold until later Saturday and Sunday with rain on Friday. Both fields are turf.

LSU schedule is very front loaded (@aTm, Arkansas, Tennessee) so a fast start by them and they may be coasting late when they close with Alabama, @Auburn, MSU and @UGA. A mediocre start (4-5 or 5-4) would not leave LSU out of contention. LSU is still learning to play together as they have a ton of new, talented pieces.

Alabama (16-2) schedule has been embarrassingly bad Alabama has beaten one team (Alabama State) that currently has a winning record and they lost two over the weekend against the mighty Columbia Lions (5-6) for their first 2 losses. Alabama failed to reach double digit runs against Columbia in any game. The Lions had given up double digit runs in 4 of their prior 7 games.

Florida has reached double digits 12 times in 16 games against a more formidable schedule. The Gators should annihilate Alabama in Gainesville this weekend.

Way too early predictions. Who are the two teams that I don't think will make Hoover? Mississippi State & Kentucky.

Kentucky and Alabama should be battling for that12th spot. Alabama has a distinct advantage as they host Kentucky (next week) as well as Mississippi State in April.

Playing both Alabama and Kentucky on the road puts Mississippi State behind the 8-ball. They will need to play better than they did last season - and so far this season, to finish in top-12 or to even make the NCAA
 
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#17
#17
With conference play starting, no way we'll see some of these things continue

In D1- 6 of top-7 are SEC
BA- 6 of top-8
CB -5 of top 8
PG- 6 of 9
Coaches- 6 of 8
NCBWA- 6 of 8

The SEC teams will start shooting of the RPI as well as SOS greatly increase

Three opening weekend series involve two ranked teams
(3) Mississippi at (6) Vanderbilt
(1) LSU at (15) Texas A&M
(24) Alabama at (5) Florida

Three series have a single ranked team
(2) Tennessee at Missouri
Auburn @ (7) Arkansas
(16) South Carolina at Georgia

Only one series involves unranked teams
Mississippi State at Kentucky




Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi State play Wednesday night

Miss State (1215) is the only team that I think is not good (right now) but Kentucky has only one quality opponent this far (Elon series 2-1)

Vanderbilt also has 5 losses with some questionable losses to Central Ark, Nebraska, and LMU. Concerning? 4 of the 5 losses came on weekend and 2 on Friday games. The Commodores bear watching as these weekend struggles may be a red flag. The Rebels (14-2) have only 1 weekend loss out of 3 losses. It's fortunate for Vanderbilt that they host this weekend. This series starts on Thursday- which is ok because their fans aren't watching their basketball teams in NCAA. Mississippi lost on Tuesday at Jacksonville St for their 3rd loss

Weather is going to effect two series in COMO and Lexington. Lexington will not get cold until later Saturday and Sunday with rain on Friday. Both fields are turf.

LSU's schedule is very front loaded (@aTm, Arkansas, Tennessee) so a fast start by them and they may be coasting late when they close with Alabama, @Auburn, MSU and @UGA

Alabama (16-2) schedule has been embarrassingly bad Alabama has beaten one team that currently has a winning record and they lost two over the weekend at home vs the mighty Columbia Lions (5-6) for their only losses. Alabama failed to reach double digit runs against CU in any game. The Lions had given up double digit runs in 4 of their prior 7 games. Florida has reached double digits 12 times in 16 games against a more formidable schedule. (Alabama State) The Gators should annihilate them.

Who are the two teams that I don't think will make Hoover. Way too early predictions..

Mississippi State
Kentucky

Kentucky and Alabama will be battling for that 12th spot. They both have tough schedules but Alabama hosts Kentucky next week.
Excellent synopsis, dude!
 

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