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Interesting results elsewhere so far, with the SEC doing poorly. 

#29 Old Dominion bt. #33 Arkansas 4-2
#36 Iowa State bt. 24 South Carolina
UNR North Florida bt #25 Ole Miss 4-3
#26 Kentucky barely survived #42 Syracuse 4-3. 
#31 Arizona State trounced #38 Mississippi State

The SEC didn’t deserve to have as many teams as it did at the expense of another team from the PAC.

Amen, Lorcan. And yet, we see this every year, because those teams get so much rankings credit for beating up on each other, while the strength of schedule in the Pac-12 is markedly worse. Some of this is athletic department budget at our Pac-12 sister schools, but we should have a Pac-12/SEC challenge every year. The weekend after Kickoff Weekend and before Indoor Nationals, you have 4 teams (2 from each conference) at each site. 

The problem is that the SEC has no incentive to do that--for them, the system works just fine as it is. Why would a school like Kentucky schedule a mid-tier or lesser Pac-12 program that could actually beat it and harm its rankings, when the status quo is getting it into the tournament? So maybe it's the Big Ten that's interested in that deal, or it's just a school by school thing where, say, WSU and Oregon go to Knoxville for a weekend where they each play Tennessee and Ole Miss or some such. Some of the scheduling had started to get a little bit better before covid, but it's still not good enough. 

#35 USC beat #22 Oklahoma 4-3, too. With UCLA rolling as expected, that's 4-0 so far for the Pac-12 in the first round, with Cal certain to make it 5-0 over San Jose State.

[ColoradoTree]

Interesting results elsewhere so far, with the SEC doing poorly. 

#29 Old Dominion bt. #33 Arkansas 4-2
#36 Iowa State bt. 24 South Carolina
UNR North Florida bt #25 Ole Miss 4-3
#26 Kentucky barely survived #42 Syracuse 4-3. 
#31 Arizona State trounced #38 Mississippi State

The SEC didn’t deserve to have as many teams as it did at the expense of another team from the PAC.

Amen, Lorcan. And yet, we see this every year, because those teams get so much rankings credit for beating up on each other, while the strength of schedule in the Pac-12 is markedly worse. Some of this is athletic department budget at our Pac-12 sister schools, but we should have a Pac-12/SEC challenge every year. The weekend after Kickoff Weekend and before Indoor Nationals, you have 4 teams (2 from each conference) at each site. 

The problem is that the SEC has no incentive to do that--for them, the system works just fine as it is. Why would a school like Kentucky schedule a mid-tier or lesser Pac-12 program that could actually beat it and harm its rankings, when the status quo is getting it into the tournament? So maybe it's the Big Ten that's interested in that deal, or it's just a school by school thing where, say, WSU and Oregon go to Knoxville for a weekend where they each play Tennessee and Ole Miss or some such. Some of the scheduling had started to get a little bit better before covid, but it's still not good enough. 

#35 USC beat #22 Oklahoma 4-3, too. With UCLA rolling as expected, that's 4-0 so far for the Pac-12 in the first round, with Cal certain to make it 5-0 over San Jose State.