NCAA College World Series: The Greatest Show on Dirt

The 64 teams are bracketed and will follow the same bracket format (and each team’s placement within said bracket) all the way to and through Omaha.

Understanding each team’s strengths and weaknesses is a big part of the CWS handicap but also understanding how each team sits in proximity to other top 20 competitors is foundational to tourney success. An efficient pass into Omaha always helps!

There are 11 SEC teams in the field of 64 and in that league steel sharpens steel…

SEC has 5 teams in the top 7 D1 rankings which were used to seed this tourney.

SEC teams will for the most part thrive vs. most non SEC competition and they are spaced such that SEC will not have to play vs. another SEC team in 5 of the potential 8 Super Regional best of three series which is quite favorable to SEC as a league.

The ACC has 8 teams in the field of 64 which is indicative of the ACC’s rise this year in hardball.

The ACC has 5 teams in the top 16 which were used to seed this Tourney.

I add a premium to veteran teams who made it to the Regionals, Super Regionals last year and pay Extra Attention to any teams that competed in Omaha last year for often they’re wide eyed fulfilling dreams that first year then if they can make it back they’re all business.

Teams in this year’s field that were in Omaha last year: Florida, LSU and Tennessee in the SEC and Virginia and Wake in the ACC Neither Oral Roberts, Stanford or TCU (the other 3 Omaha 2023 teams made the field of 64.

I could envision the SEC landing up to 6 teams this year in Omaha but more than likely 4 or 5 teams. I can see the ACC having success this year also and would not be surprised to see them land 2-3 teams.

After SEC and ACC there’s little room for all the other squads competing in this years tourney of 64…any making it to Omaha will have to be top caliber clubs: Oregon St. East Carolina, Oklahoma and Arizona to name a few.

Arizona is in the most competitive regional in my opinion and I look for Dallas Baptist, a veteran team that made the Regionals

Bama, Duke, S.Carolina, S. Miss and Indiana St. all made it to the Super’s last year and were eliminated…look for them to be potentially live this year.