FSU Baseball: Breaking down 2019 College World Series bracket

FSU baseball will face off this weekend against one of the nation’s top teams in the country in their opener for the fun and excitement in Omaha.

For the FSU baseball team, all of the things that took place during the regular season are out the window as the Seminoles prepare to do something that hardly anyone thought was possible less than a month ago – be one of the last eight teams standing as they play for a national title in the College World Series.

In the 40th and final season under legendary head coach Mike Martin, the Seminoles (41-21) have won their last six games that includes sweeping both the Athens regional against the No. 4 national seed Georgia Bulldogs as well as a sweep last weekend in the Super Regional round against No. 13 national seed LSU.

By now, the storylines have been presented thousands of times of how the FSU baseball team has both struggled to bring home the national title (losing every single one of their 24 appearances in Omaha) and how they were one of the final four teams to be selected into this year’s field.

You know what? None of that matters for any of the teams starting play this weekend as it’s the best team of the elite eight to make it here – and the action starts for the Seminoles against yet another SEC team for a chance to play another one of the teams living off miracles and a Lone Star State opponent the Noles have recent history with.

Florida State Seminoles

Here’s a look at the three teams paired with FSU baseball in one side of the bracket with a spot in the championships series on the line.

Arkansas Razorbacks

Heading to Omaha with a 46-18 record and being seeded as the No.5 national seed entering the tournament, head coach Dave Van Horne’s team was the last ones to make it in after winning Game Three of their Super Regional series with fellow SEC team Ole Miss – the same one that knocked them out of the conference tournament several weeks before.

The Hogs got a single number by their name in part thanks to a 12-1 stretch in the middle of the season that kept them one of the top teams in the country – thanks to a lineup that has five everyday starters batting over .300 entering this weekend to go along with ace pitcher Isaiah Campbell, who will likely bring his 12-1 record into battle against the Noles.

All time, the Razorbacks and FSU baseball will be meeting for the sixth time with Arkansas winning every meeting so far – including sweeps in the Super Regional round in both 2004 and 2009.

Michigan Wolverines

Another one of the final four teams to get in along with the Seminoles, the men from Ann Arbor come to Omaha for the first time since 1984 with a 46-20 record that included needing to win a decisive game in both the regional round and Super Regional round, where they knocked out the No. 1 national seed, UCLA, to make it into the field of eight.

All time, FSU baseball has a 7-1 record against the Wolverines with their last meeting being the conclusion of a three game series sweep in Tallahassee during the 1995 season. Michigan’s lone win came in the 1962 College World Series in route to their second national title in a decade.

Texas Tech Red Raiders

For just the fourth time in program history – all since the 2014 season – the No. 8 national seed is back in Omaha as the Red Raiders bring their 44-18 record to Omaha that includes making quick work of their regional at home (where Florida got knocked out, so thank you Dallas Baptist for that) before taking two out of three from Oklahoma State in the Super Regional round.

If the teams should meet up at some point this week, it would be just the third time in the history of FSU baseball as the teams split a midweek two game series during the 2016 season inside of Dick Howser Stadium.