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SEC baseball power rankings after Week 5

Here’s how things look after a great weekend of SEC baseball (and rough midweek showing for several teams).

South Carolina and Vanderbilt put on a show last weekend in Nashville as they traded blows for three straight games before the Commodores finally came out on top.

LSU survived its series as Kentucky proved that it is here to stay, Georgia gave Florida a scare, Alabama won the Iron Bowl of baseball, and Mississippi State took the series from Ole Miss in a good weekend of SEC baseball.

That’s the good news. The bad news? LSU, Vanderbilt and Tennessee all put on a terrible showing Tuesday night as they all lost their midweek games. LSU lost to Louisiana, Vandy lost to Indiana State and the Vols lost to Tennessee Tech.

Here are our SEC power rankings after Week 5 of conference play.

SEC baseball power rankings after 4 weeks of conference play

This weekend in the SEC was a wild one, to say the least.

This weekend in the SEC was a wild one, to say the least. Georgia won a series against Kentucky, Mississippi State beat Alabama on the road, and South Carolina and LSU tied.

Add to that the fact that Vanderbilt lost its first conference game of the season against Missouri while Texas A&M beat Auburn on the road, and you have yourself a wild weekend.

Mother Nature was the real winner of the series between LSU and South Carolina. The teams were only able to play two games and thanks to the heroics of [autotag]Gavin Dugas[/autotag], LSU was able to go home 1-1 instead of 0-2.

Here’s how the SEC teams stack up in this week’s power rankings.

A controversial interference rule took a run off the board for Oklahoma in the College World Series

A rule’s a rule, but come on!

In a captivating college baseball postseason across the board, Ole Miss and Oklahoma are the last two squads standing. And despite all of the underpinned narratives and team spirit on the Rebels’ side, the Sooners would not go down without a fight in the Finals.

Even after taking a 10-3 beating in Game 1, Oklahoma refused to go away with their backs against the wall on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, the officiating (or rule book?) probably could’ve helped them out more.

Let’s fast forward to the sixth inning in a 0-0 game. To get a runner at third across home plate, Oklahoma’s John Spikerman laid down a quality bunt that made it 1-0 and brought the other runner over to third.

Or did he?

According to the umpires, Spikerman (or his body) interfered with the pitcher’s throw to first base by running inside fair territory and not in the runner’s lane. Because a player — whether it’s inadvertent or not, obviously can’t do that — the call was overturned, and Oklahoma lost the crucial run as all baserunners have to return to the base where they started.

Ole Miss would get out of the inning without any further damage after recording the third out on the next batter.

College baseball fans on Twitter weren’t happy about the controversial rule that cost Oklahoma in a clutch spot.

This Ole Miss baseball hype video will make me, I mean you, run sobbing through a brick wall

Hotty Toddy.

The University of *checks notes* Mississippi — a school I’ve never heard of outside of it yielding my college education, 90% of my friend group and approximately 9,000 tailgates-under-chandeliers — is apparently in a lively baseball tournament called the “Men’s College World Series” and they produced a video to commemorate the occasion! 

According to sources familiar with the matter, their hype video leading up to Saturday’s game against Auburn is “sick as hell” and “capable of reducing even the most coldhearted person to a puddle of unremitting emotion.” 

I am but a naive bystander to the idea of supporting one’s team after a trying season, but I’m told Saturday’s game will be *presses earpiece* UNBELIEVABLY stressful for fans, especially if said fans are currently crying over a hype video with no signs of stopping. 

Watch the video: 

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