[rookie57]

SO, if you had to predict how many losses we'll have in reg. season conference play, how many do you say?

5

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Thanks, CJ, and wow with this format it would certainly be in any teams best interest to at the very least finish in the top eight of the regular season standings, otherwise you are looking at five very difficult games in five days to win a title.

If you are the league commissioner, it's probably best for bubble teams needing wins too. Much less chance of a 2024 NC State getting in, but coming in as a 9-11 seed, you'll get a game against one of the three worst, then a good chance to upset 6-8.

Coming in at #6-8, you'll probably still have a good shot at a quality win. That's 1-2 wins depending on your seed and then a shot at knocking off one of the top 3 and being locked in.

Definitely much more difficult to win it as the #9 or lower, but playing one or two games at your level and then getting hot for three or four more isn't entirely out of the question.

No way around there not being at least one or two teams in the 8-12 range who are capable of going to the finals or winning it if things fall right this season.


If I had to pick today:

1. Auburn
2. Tennessee
3. Alabama
4. Kentucky

5. Florida
6. Texas A&M
7. Ole Miss
8. Mississippi State

9. Arkansas
10. Texas
11. Georgia
12. Oklahoma

13. Missouri
14. LSU
15. South Carolina
16. Vanderbilt

Kentucky could quickly drop off the #4 line though.

I think they are better than Alabama