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Mississippi State-Vanderbilt College World Series finals preview: Top players, key storylines and expert picks

Don't you love those movies when the two tough guys have a big fight in the beginning, establishing that they really don't like each other, and then we spend the next few hours or even years watching their separate arduous journeys, only to find them standing toe-to-toe once again with the fate of the world on the line?

Well, that's our situation beginning tonight in Omaha, Nebraska, when familiar SEC foes Vanderbilt and Mississippi State square off in a best-of-three bout where the fate of the world might not be on the line, but the fate of College World Series most certainly is.