If at all possible, it would be great to sneak up to #10. At least two "elites" will have to play on opening day of the SEC smackdown. To pair off with someone more beatable on the opening day #10 is the lowest you can hope for. But we need to overachieve and get some help and it probably doesn't involve losing to LSU today in any scenario.

USCe is one game ahead of us. They are 0-2 vs. the Beardsharkettes this weekend, but are home. I'm afraid we're UMiss fans today because we made need USCe to beat LSU a time or two, if at all possible. Also, we've already lost our series to the Rebels and they'll have a head to head tiebreaker over us anyway. Or we could need LSU to beat them, which is all the more reason to saddle LSU with another loss today plus give us a possibly needed head to head tiebreaker. USCe travels to LSU and Mizzou, while hosting Bama. Unfortunately, LSU only has series hosting USCe and @UPig left after today. And if UPig takes a couple from that could take us back to the problem in the above post. This situation sucks. The reality is that hoping to finish above LSU at this point is all but fruitless. To that end, maybe it's better if they handle both USCe (which will help us pass USCe) and Arkansas (which will help us stay out of the cellar).

So, if we pass USCe that still doesn't get us to #10. It seems we are very unlikely to pass LSU. So who can we pass to get that coveted #10 seed? We're sitting on 3 wins. The three others we might have a shot at overtaking all have 6 wins. This really means we have to get every one we can and today is one of them. Today vs. LSU and the whole series at home versus Mizzou are HUGE!!!!! If we can steal one; and we might need to; from the Gators or Wildcats it can only help but we can't count on that at all at this point. Losing all six is as likely as going 1-5, and 2-4 would be shocking. So, who?

UMiss hosts Arkansas which will likely be a sweep, but they then finish on the road to UGA and host UT. They still have a game at USCe today. With those ten remaining I think they go 4-6 at worst, although 5-5 is likely the ceiling. With the tiebreaker over us that makes overtaking the Beardsharkettes quite improbable unless we get hot and start whooping butt even on the road. Even if they finish 4-6 we'd have to go 8-2 to overtake them because of the tiebreaker. Let's be honest. We aren't finishing 8-2 with road series at UK and UF.

Let's look at Texas A&M, who we do not play this season. They host Florida and still have to go to Mizzou and Auburn. This has potential but also has the frustration of two schools (Aggies and Mizzou) we need to start losing are going to play each other and they can't both lose the series or get swept. Still, TAMU is one of the only ones left that could possibly tank. I think they finish 3-6 at best, hopefully they would go 1-5 vs. UF and Aubie and lost 2 of 3 at Mizzou. That would put them 8-16 or possibly 9-15. To get to 9 wins (overtaking an 8-16 Aggie squad and needing a tiebreaker with a 9-15 unit) we'd have to finish 6-4, which is frankly, unlikely. But if so, does not leave any room to lose to LSU today. If we hope to overtake the Aggettes, it is more likely to hope for the scenario where they finish 2-7. We'd have to go 5-5, which a lot more doable. It would mean winning the series against Mizzou, stealing on from UK or UF, and absolutely WINNING TODAY. We'd be tied and if they were swept by Aubie may give us the tiebreaker since there's no head to head and Aubie could be the highest ranked one we both played. I think we're Auburn fans from here on out. Really need them to overtake Florida if we don't steal one from Florida. This scenario is of course giving Mizzou 2 wins and they are the other one we are trying to overtake. Let's look at them.

The University of Missouri's remaining 2016 schedule. Home to TAMU, at MSU, and home to USCe. Good grief that doesn't help. I suppose if they lost all three series that would put them at 9 wins. Means we would have to go 6-4, still unlikely.

So folks, BulldogBear has come to the conclusion that if we have any realistic chance of sneaking up to #10 seed, we need to go 5-5. That becomes nearly impossible without winning today. We also need to pull for anyone and everyone that plays South Carolina and Texas A&M.