The Oklahoma Sooners still have more odds to defy.
FanDuel released college baseball national championship odds with the Men's College World Series starting this week in Omaha. Of the eight-team field, the Sooners were handed the second-worst odds at +1800, as of Thursday morning. Those odds are better only than Troy's at +2700, but the Trojans are the only mid-major team left in the tournament, so that's still not saying anything at all in the belief in the Sooners.
No. 5 national seed North Carolina topped the list at +290, followed by No. 3 Georgia (+300), No. 6 Texas (+320), No. 16 West Virginia (+700), Ole Miss (+800) and No. 7 Alabama (+1300).
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Sooners must defy more odds as challenging bracket dwindles their chances
The Sooners head into the MCWS as maybe the hottest team in college baseball all of a sudden after stumbling to the finish line at the end of the regular season. They stunned with back-to-back comeback wins to upset No. 2 national seed Georgia Tech in the Atlanta Regional. Then, OU absolutely dismantled No. 15 Kansas in a sweep of the Lawrence Super Regional to punch its ticket to the MCWS.
After OU took down Georgia Tech, its national title odds were set at +3000, which was tied with Oregon as the 11th-best odds among the 16 teams left in Super Regionals. Again, though, it was only mid-major teams with poorer chances than the Sooners, including Troy at +3500, which was actually the best among the four mid-major programs still standing in Super Regionals.
Yet, the Sooners still prevailed, and easily, against a Kansas team that won the Big 12 title and had greater odds at +1800. Five teams with the same or better odds than OU fell in Super Regionals.
That forced Vegas to up the Sooners' chances a bit, but despite defying all odds to this point, oddsmakers are still betting against them.
The Sooners getting dropped into the most difficult bracket of the MCWS could have been the biggest influence in their low changes of making it to the end. OU must endure an all-SEC bracket that includes Alabama, Texas and Georgia. The Sooners haven't played Georgia yet this season, but went 1-5 combined in back-to-back three-game series against Texas and Bama.
OU will play Bama at 2 p.m. CT on Saturday, followed by Texas vs. Georgia at 7 p.m.. Both games will be on ESPN.
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Whoever survives from those four will advance to the championship series to face the winner of the other bracket, which includes North Carolina, West Virginia, Ole Miss and Troy. Replace the Sooners with one of those four squads, and you can bet their odds skyrocket. OU already took out the ACC and Big 12 champions that prevailed over North Carolina and West Virginia, respectively.
Odds are based on logic, though, and nothing the Sooners have done this run has been logical.
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