It takes anywhere from 112 to 136 games to fill the eight spots in the College World Series, and with all due respect to the pageantry of Omaha, the frantic first three days of double-elimination action at 16 regional sites around the country make for the best theater college baseball has to offer.
This year’s field has no shortage of storylines. Can Florida recapture the magic it bottled last June on the way to the first national championship in program history, or will one of the other nine SEC teams in the field outlast the Gators? Will western powers Oregon State and Stanford or Big Ten champ Minnesota keep the Sun Belt states from dominating the later rounds?