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We’re two weeks closer to the postseason in college baseball since our last Field of 64 update as the third to last weekend of the regular season approaches.



As always, there are four subsets of teams that must be addressed and only one of these groups gets decided solely based on what happens on the field. The four sets of teams, with some overlap, are as follows:



• 31 automatic bids

• 33 at-large bids

• 8 Top 8 National Seeds

• 8 additional Host sites for the Regional round



For the decisions we need to make in this exercise, we will combine current standings and team resumes with some projection and forecasting. Let's start with the 31 automatic bids.





Automatic Bids



America East: Hartford

American: Tulane

Atlantic 10: VCU

ACC: Miami

Atlantic Sun: Jacksonville



Big 12: Texas Tech

Big East: Creighton

Big South: Coastal Carolina

Big Ten: Minnesota

Big West: Cal State Fullerton



Colonial: UNCW

C-USA: Southern Miss

Horizon: Wright State

Ivy: Princeton

MAAC: Monmouth



MAC: Kent State

MEAC: Florida A&M

Missouri Valley: Dallas Baptist

Mountain West: New Mexico

Northeast: Bryant (26)



Ohio Valley: Southeast Missouri

Pac-12: Washington

Patriot: Navy

SEC: Florida

Southern: UNCG



Southland: Southeastern Louisiana

SWAC: Alabama State

Summit: Oral Roberts

Sun Belt: South Alabama

West Coast: St. Mary's



WAC: Seattle



Here are your Top 8 National Seeds and eight additional Regional Hosts. That makes 16 teams in total and those teams who are currently listed as automatic qualifiers will be in BOLD. This is critical because those BOLD teams will not count against the 33 available at-large bids.





Top 8 National Seeds

Remember: the order here is irrelevant long-term. There is no reward for being a higher seeded National Seed. The sole prize is hosting both a Regional and Super Regional. So in essence, you are either a Top 8 National Seed or you are not, period. RPI in parenthesis.



1. Florida (1)

2. Miami (4)

3. Texas A&M (5)

4. South Carolina (3)

5. Louisville (2)

6. Florida State (7)

7. Mississippi State (11)

8. Texas Tech (13)



NOTE: 5 at-large bids gone





Additional Eight Hosts

There are 16 hosts in Regional round.



• Ole Miss (6)

• NC State (8)

• Vanderbilt (12)

• UC Santa Barbara (9)

• Virginia (16)

• Southern Miss (19)

• Minnesota (24)

• Coastal Carolina (17)



NOTE: 5 more at-large bids gone, 10 total gone; 23 left





Here are the 23 remaining at-large bids (RPI in parenthesis):



Clemson (10)

North Carolina (14)

Louisiana State (15)

Georgia Tech (18)

Louisiana-Lafayette (20)



Oklahoma State (22)

Texas Christian (23)

Michigan (27)

Florida Atlantic (29)

Rice (30)



Wake Forest (31)

Arizona (34)

East Carolina (35)

BYU (36)

Long Beach State (39)



Oregon State (40)

Kentucky (42)

Gonzaga (46)

Maryland (47)

California (49)



Michigan State (52)

Alabama (53)

Lamar (56)



Also in the host conversation: Creighton, Georgia Tech, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana State, Oklahoma State, South Alabama, Texas Christian.





On the bubble



Arizona State (59)

Louisiana Tech (64)

Old Dominion (67)

Notre Dame (68)

Nebraska (69)

Fresno State (71)





Out



Georgia (28)

Duke (43)

Pittsburgh (44)

Northwestern State (48)

North Florida (54)

Boston College (58)

Connecticut (61)

Jacksonville State (62)

High Point (63)





Postseason teams by Conference



• SEC: 9 (Florida, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Alabama, LSU)

• ACC: 9 (Miami, Florida State, Louisville, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest)

• Big Ten: 4 (Michigan State, Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota)

• Pac-12: 4 (Cal, Oregon State, Arizona, Washington)

• C-USA: 3 (Rice, Southern Miss, FAU)

• Big 12: 3 (Texas Tech, TCU, Oklahoma State)

• Big West: 3 (UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State)

• WCC: 3 (St. Mary's, BYU, Gonzaga)

• American: 2 (East Carolina, Tulane)

• Southland: 2 (Lamar, Southeastern Louisiana)

• Sun Belt: 2 (South Alabama, Louisiana-Lafayette)

• All others (20): 1



