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Florida will have to reverse history to advance from College World Series losers' bracket

Teams generally don't rebound after falling from the winners' bracket to the losers' bracket.

In an eight-team tournament set up like the College World Series (or Women's College World Series), the terms "winners' bracket" and "losers' bracket" really only refer to a couple of games.

There's only one "winners' bracket" game on each side of the draw each year, pitting two 1-0 teams against each other. The rest of the games, after the opener, are either losers' bracket games — elimination games, really — or games in which at least one team can be eliminated.

And dropping to the losers' bracket from the winners' bracket is easy: Two teams do it every year, and Florida did it on Monday by sputtering at the plate in a 1-0 loss to Virginia.