that this team isn't likely to finish above .500 overall. We can't win OOC games and we can't win SEC games. I know "we're only 2 games back" but consider this: in a terrible SEC West so far, we are 1-5. Instead of us being only 2 games back, I see us as the worst of a terrible division.
To finish at or above .500 in the SEC it will take one of two scenarios: either win 7 of 8 series without any sweeps either way or win 6 of 8 with two of those wins as sweeps and no sweeps against. I just can't see that happening. Then, we'd have to win most of our OOC games, another thing we haven't proven we can do. We appear to be on a collision course with our first sub .500 overall record in ages and not making a regional for the first time since 2002. But hey, we're only 2 games our of first.