USA TODAY Sports’ college baseball tournament bracket projections, including Florida

The end of the college baseball regular season is just around the corner, which means that the postseason is just about to begin. With a nearly full season now in the books, the final pieces of the regional tournament picture are finally falling into place.

Mind you, there are still games left to be played but with a nearly complete sample size on hand, USA TODAY Sports duo Eddie Timanus and Erick Smith took a stab at projecting what the early postseason picture will look like. Among those listed are the Florida Gators, whose late-season surge saved them from a lost season and got them back to the NCAA Tournament.

Timanus and Smith agreed that the Orange and Blue will be the second seed in the Fort Worth Region, where the TCU Horned Frogs hold the top seed. Also included in that bracket are the Virginia Cavaliers at the No. 3 seed and the Wright State Raiders at No. 4.

Take a look below at USA TODAY Sports’ full college baseball NCAA Tournament seeding projections.

(* denotes teams that are automatic qualifiers based on current conference standings.)

Austin region

1. Texas* (1)
2. Texas-San Antonio*
3. Kansas
4. Central Connecticut State*

Baton Rouge region

1. LSU (2)
2. Northeastern*
3. Arizona
4. Missouri State*

Tallahassee region

1. Florida State* (3)
2. Mississippi State
3. Stetson*
4. Bethune-Cookman*

Fayetteville region

1. Arkansas (4)
2. Duke
3. Northeastern*
4. Bryant*

Athens region

1. Georgia (5)
2. Louisville
3. Texas Rio Grande Valley
4. Holy Cross*

Auburn region

1. Auburn (6)
2. Miami (Fla.)
3. Connecticut*
4. Miami (Ohio)*

Nashville region

1. Vanderbilt (7)
2. Wake Forest
3. Southern California
4. Oral Roberts*

Chapel Hill region

1. North Carolina (8)
2. Oklahoma
3. Kansas State
4. Yale*

Corvallis region

1. Oregon State (9)
2. Mississippi
3. Arizona State
4. Sacramento State*

Myrtle Beach region

1. Coastal Carolina* (10)
2. North Carolina State
3. Kentucky
4. High Point*

Los Angeles region

1. UCLA (11)
2. Dallas Baptist*     
3. Cal Poly
4. San Diego*

Clemson region

1. Clemson (12)
2. Southern Mississippi
3. East Tennessee State*
4. Rhode Island*

Knoxville region

1. Tennessee (13)
2. Georgia Tech
3. Iowa*
4. Tennessee Tech*

Eugene region

1. Oregon (14)
2. UC Irvine*
3. Xavier      
4. Nevada*

Tuscaloosa region

1. Alabama (15)
2. West Virginia*
3. Southeastern Louisiana*
4. Fairfield*

Fort Worth region

1. TCU (16)
2. Florida
3. Virginia
4. Wright State*

Last four in: Cal Poly, Texas Rio Grande Valley, Virginia, Xavier.

First four out: Western Kentucky, Creighton, Cincinnati, Texas A&M.

Team breakdown by conference: SEC (13), ACC (10), Big 12 (6), Big Ten (4), Sun Belt (3), Big East (2), Big West (2), Southland (2).

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