Three OOC teams to root for
1. We need to make like Genespage and pull for Oregon. They've been struggling and seem to be suffering from the MSU curse on PAC 12 teams and now have a RPI of 66. They play a bad Portland team and a loss would kill them. However, they play RPI number one Oregon State and if they can pull off even one win this weekend it will help us out. They also finish with some winnable series at 96 USCw and home against 52 UCLA so they could make a late run.
2. South Alabama's RPI is at 51. They play LSU tomorrow in Baton Rouge and if they pull an upset- or heck even taking the field- might push them back up into the top 50. After that they finish with a bad Appalachain State team and we need them to sweep that series and then they finish with Troy. Since we play both USA and Troy I think it would probably be best to pull for South Alabama to win that series and get into the top 50 and us beat Troy.
3. Memphis has a RPI of 101. They play RPI 202 UT-Martin at a neutral site tomorrow and they need to win that so that their RPI won't take a hit. They do finish up with RPI 86 East Carolina and RPI 83 Tulane so I think that there's a good chance that as long as they beat UT-Martin and Murray State and win a couple of conference games that they end up a top 100 win for us.
4. Indiana and Kentucky is one that could go either way for us- and so I'm not sure who to root- and why the title of this post isn't four teams to root for. If I had to guess, I would probably guess root for Kentucky to win this game and then lose a game to Tennessee this weekend would probably be the most accurate way to look at things.