I'm not sold on them either. They lost series to Georgia, Kentucky, A&M, Vandy and Clemson. But every series that they won the entire season, they swept. That includes a sweep over Ole Miss and Alabama. They split with Florida. They are the most confusing team this year and they take a pedestrian attitude to Hoover every single year.
Winning 20 games in the SEC and 42 games with a top 10 RPI makes them hard to pass though.
I can see LSU or Ole Miss taking their national seed if either can make it to Sunday. Both teams have already passed SC in RPI and they are both playing well at the end of the season. It's going to be interesting if either one of them can make a run in Hoover. I still just don't understand why they don't care about winning in Hoover.