OU carries on the 'hot team' tradition in the CWS...

[thekimmer]

Baseball seems to lend itself more to this than other sports but oddly it only seems to happen to SEC teams. The last 7 CWS champions have come from the SEC but only two of those teams won their conference or division championship. OU was 11th in the SEC but still won the CWS.

OU pulled off a miracle run equal to the 22 bearsharks finishing with the second fewest wins (43) of any CWS champ in the last half century. The rebs won their natty with the fewest wins (42) since the schedule expanded in 1967.

Bottom line is if you are in the SEC and make the tournament you have a chance to win it all.

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

And THAT'S (as they say) BASEBALL!

 

[Perd Hapley]

Baseball seems to lend itself more to this than other sports but oddly it only seems to happen to SEC teams. The last 7 CWS champions have come from the SEC but only two of those teams won their conference or division championship. OU was 11th in the SEC but still won the CWS.

OU pulled off a miracle run equal to the 22 bearsharks finishing with the second fewest wins (43) of any CWS champ in the last half century. The rebs won their natty with the fewest wins (42) since the schedule expanded in 1967.

Bottom line is if you are in the SEC and make the tournament you have a chance to win it all.

The SEC is really all that matters in college baseball now. Too much talent and money and geographical advantages compared to everyone else. Outside of Missouri, is there any SEC baseball program that would trade places moving forward with any non-SEC program? I highly doubt it. Even Kentucky and Alabama have become highly competitive.

In the 28 year period of the modern postseason format, the SEC has won the CWS 15 times, but has won the last 7 in a row. That’s almost half if their total in the entire 28 years. It’s not a coincidence that the majority of those 7 have come in the portal / NIL era.

Teams like OU and OM winning it all are only flukes if you don’t stop and consider that both of those teams would have won 40-45 regular season games in any other league.

 

[HRMSU]

I really thought we'd be that 17'n team that people ran into but getting by GA was the hurdle. The real That 17'n team got by GA Tech so my prediction was off by less than 100 miles***

 

[thekimmer]

California and Arizona used to win a lot in the nobody cared era simply because of their favorable weather and population. Hence why a program like Cal State Fullerton has 18 CWS appearances. The far west's dominance ended because still nobody cares in CA but the SEC and to a lesser extent, the ACC. UCLA is the top team out there now which is interesting because they only have 6 CWS appearances.

 

[The Peeper]

I really thought we'd be that 17'n team that people ran into but getting by GA was the hurdle. The real That 17'n team got by GA Tech so my prediction was off by less than 100 miles***

We didn't stand a chance with our bullpen, it never "got hot" the entire season

 

[HRMSU]

We didn't stand a chance with our bullpen, it never "got hot" the entire season

I don't know, I think as hot as we were we'd out slug/out score most of the teams in except GA of course. OK was far from world beaters in anything until they got hot and became that 17'n team. You see you can't be that 17'n team if you are expected to win; then you are a favorite or true contender. I do understand the frustration around the bullpen. Get past GA and who knows.