Other Saturday Top 25 Scores
#4 UCLA 8 - Georgia Tech 2
South Florida 2 - #6 North Carolina 3
Nebraska 1 - #7 Oregon St. 17
Brown 2 - #8 Louisville 13 (Suspended T9 due to rain, resume 2/24)
Monmouth 1 - #11 East Carolina 3
Monmouth 0 - #11 East Carolina 10 (DH)
UNLV 2 - #12 Stanford 1
UNLV 2 - #12 Stanford 3 (DH)
Youngstown St. 2 - #13 Florida St. 24
Youngstown St. 4 - #13 Florida St. 7 (DH)
#17 Michigan 9 - The Citadel 1
Wright St. 5 - #19 Okie St. 17
Quinnipiac 8 - #20 Wake Forest 6
Kent St. 2 - #21 Coastal Carolina 8
VMI 6 - #24 Clemson 8
VMI 2 - #24 Clemson 8 (DH)
Fresno St. 5 - #25 Fullerton 2 (Tony Gwynn Legacy, San Diego, CA)

dermdoc said:

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Watching Miss State and Southern Miss. Seriously, how long has Jake Mangum been at State?

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Isn't he the one with the hot mom? If so, who cares?

Other Sunday Top 25 Scores
#4 UCLA 6 - Georgia Tech 0
South Florida 1 - #6 North Carolina 2
South Florida 3 - #6 North Carolina 5 (DH)
Nebraska 3 - #7 Oregon St. 8
Brown 2 - #8 Louisville 13 (Resumption of suspended game)
Monmouth 8 - #11 East Carolina 5
UNLV 5 - #12 Stanford 6
#17 Michigan 6 - The Citadel 3
Wright St. 5 - #19 Okie St. 4
Quinnipiac 5 - #20 Wake Forest 15
Elon 6 - #20 Wake Forest 3
North Carolina St. 7 - Coastal Carolina 6
VMI 6 - #24 Clemson 11
#25 Fullerton 8 - Oklahoma 6 (Tony Gwynn Legacy, San Diego, CA)

W said:

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as we discussed in the offseason...Childress is taking some risk this year with the non-conference schedule.

let's hope Fordham, UIC, and Gonzaga are decent this year. So far the trio is a sparkling 1-9 on the season

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after this weekend...Fordham (2-5), UIC (1-5), and Gonzaga (2-6) are a combined 5-16

Fordham split a four game series with North Florida, which beat Florida on Wednesday, with one of the games they lost going 12 innings.

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W said:

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as we discussed in the offseason...Childress is taking some risk this year with the non-conference schedule.

let's hope Fordham, UIC, and Gonzaga are decent this year. So far the trio is a sparkling 1-9 on the season

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after this weekend...Fordham (2-5), UIC (1-5), and Gonzaga (2-6) are a combined 5-16

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It really isn't any different than in years past. Those three slots last year, Rhode Island(2-4), Cornell (0-3), Long Beach (0-7), are a combined 2-14 so far this year.

Our scheduling is what it is and we can certainly have a discussion about it the pros and cons to it, but it isn't any worse than it was last year (and while having our best non-conference games away (Houston, Texas, DBU) or neutral (Houston, TCU, Baylor) sucks for season ticket holders, it actually helps our resume when it comes to RPI so in that sense the non-conference schedule is actually better than last year).

and the Ags barely slipped into the field of 64 last year too.

the pressure is on to win 2 of 3 at the MM Classic

Nobody had an issue with Long Beach State coming here last season until after their season went downhill and RI had a very good RPI for a non power five northern school

I have wanted a solid series against a name opponent for a while now but not on the first weekend but rather after the Frisco/MMP tourney. We need one against a solid ACC home and home and then maybe if we go to say North Carolina or something we can hit up a mid week game against a Coastal Carolina and maybe in return get them to come for a three same series

W said:

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and the Ags barely slipped into the field of 64 last year too.

the pressure is on to win 2 of 3 at the MM Classic

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Did we barely slip into the field last year because of our non-conference schedule or because we finished 4 games under .500 in the SEC? Our non-conference RPI last year was 12. It was all those losses in SEC play that brought down our overall RPI.

Of course scheduling some tougher non-conference games and winning them could have helped, but scheduling some tougher non-conference games and losing them could have left us out too.

Exactly this, it was 13-17 league record (winning only three SEC series) that had the Ags on the bubble last year, not the "weak" non-conference schedule.