Florida's path to its first national title in baseball runs through one of its most hated rivals.
Florida and Miami have met each other many times on many diamonds before.
But never like this, in each team's opening game of a College World Series.
So this game (8 p.m., ESPN or WatchESPN) is unequivocally the most important in a series between the Gators and Hurricanes that dates back to 1947. The only team Florida baseball has played more often than Miami is Georgia; the only other team to have beaten the Gators so many times (or to have played more than 200 games against Florida and hold a winning record) is Florida State.