Kevin O'Sullivan breaks down how Florida's offense is playing

Kevin O’Sullivan broke down how Florida’s offense played throughout the College World Series. Going into the series against LSU for the title, weather could play a factor.

The Gators head coach mentioned looking at weather reports, particularly with rain, and how that would affect running out ground balls and certain offensive situations. Not only that, wind could really determine how the ball travels.

Sometimes, that leads to no offense or scoring at all.

“Well, it’s a give and take, really,” O’Sullivan said. “I mean, usually you look at the weather report days in advance and want to know if it’s going to rain or not.

“But the wind has played a huge factor, especially on Wednesday when we played TCU. I could sense even in their dugout it was suffocating. It’s like every ball hit in the air was an out.”

At this point, big pitching and big bats is the name of the game. With that type of combination for O’Sullivan’s Florida crew, that can easily lead to a national title.

It’s just about getting it done.

“And at this stage of the game, it’s nice to hit home runs,” O’Sullivan said. “It’s a very interesting question, because when you put your team together to win the SEC, it’s built on power hitting and power pitching.

“And in order to win the SEC and it gives you an opportunity to host Regionals and Super Regional and puts you in a position to get here. Now you get out here and it’s a totally different game.”

But if there’s no power hitting, Florida has to scramble for scoring. And that could be difficult against the Tigers.

“In (the) back of your mind, when we’ve come out here and we haven’t been as successful as we had hoped, you have to have the ability to manufacture runs in different ways,” O’Sullivan said. “How you score runs the majority of the year with the three-run homer, that type of thing in our league, you have to prepare yourself for this too. And I think that’s the real intriguing thing about playing out here.”

Florida played the waiting game for LSU. But now that both teams are set for an epic matchup, it’s all cake.

“We’re awfully excited to be in this position,” O’Sullivan said. “Last night’s game between LSU and Wake was an incredible game to watch from a fan’s perspective. We’re excited that we have an opportunity to play here.

“This has not been an easy road for us. Obviously getting to the SEC schedule was not easy. Going through the losers’ bracket in the Regionals, playing South Carolina in the Supers was very difficult. Three one-run games out here and now the season is going to end with two SEC teams playing against each other. And we didn’t have an opportunity to play with each other. It should be a lot of fun.”