The Oklahoma Sooners drop in Baseball America's latest projected field of 64, slightly putting the Sooners outside of hosting a regional
With just three SEC series remaining on Oklahoma's regular season slate, the Sooners still have work to do after losing two out of three last weekend at Auburn. On this week's bracketology, Baseball America has Oklahoma just outside of a top 16 seed that a team has to reach in order to host a regional.
Baseball America currently has Oklahoma in Florida State's regional. Florida State is the No. 16 overall seed while the Sooners are the No. 17 overall seed. This puts the Sooners at the No. 2 seed with Missouri State and North Florida rounding out the regional in Tallahassee.
With Auburn's series win over Oklahoma this past weekend, the Tigers are now sitting in fifth place in the SEC standings with an SEC record of 12-9. The Sooners (11-10 in SEC) are currently in a four-way tie for sixth with Ole Miss, Arkansas, and Florida.
Auburn still remains as the No. 5 overall seed in Baseball America's bracketology.
Here is Baseball America's current top 16 national seeds:
- UCLA (Big Ten)
- Georgia Tech (ACC)
- Texas (SEC)
- North Carolina (ACC)
- Auburn (SEC)
- Texas A&M (SEC)
- Georgia (SEC)
- Coastal Carolina (Sun Belt)
- Kansas (Big 12)
- Oregon State (Independent)
- Mississippi State (SEC)
- Nebraska (Big Ten)
- Ole Miss (SEC)
- Southern Miss (Sun Belt)
- Alabama (SEC)
- Florida State (ACC)
The Kansas Jayhawks made the biggest leap in Baseball America's bracketology after a huge showing last week with a nonconference win at Nebraska and sweeping Big 12 rival Kansas State over the weekend in Manhattan. This also makes Kansas the only Big 12 team projected to host a regional in the bracketology.
The team that hurt the Sooners the most last weekend would be the Mississippi State Bulldogs after they convincingly swept LSU at home. Baseball America bumped them up from the No. 16 seed last week to the No. 11 seed this week.
This weekend is a major opportunity for the Sooners to bounce back as they host Florida on Friday, May 1 at 6:30 CT, Saturday, May 2 at 6:00 CT, and Sunday, May 3 at 2:00 CT.
Just like last weekend and the next three weekends to round out the regular season, the Sooners will need some major help. Florida State is just ahead of Oklahoma in Baseball America's projected field. What could help Oklahoma is a Pittsburgh series win in Tallahassee this weekend. Florida State struggled in its previous ACC series as Stanford completed the three-game sweep by a combined total of five runs.
Florida is also not too far behind as the No. 19 overall seed in the bracketology and the No. 2 seed in Southern Mississippi's regional. The winner of the Florida-Oklahoma series should raise some eyebrows in the tournament committee.