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#4 Arkansas vs #8 Florida
The Hogs will be put to the test after 2 easy weekends against the SEC  bottom feeders, Mississippi State and Georgia. The Hogs swept both of those series, but the Gators are nowhere nearly as bad as them. Still, Arkansas has won 12 straight games and couldn’t be playing a better baseball. Florida, meanwhile, has hit a rough patch due to injury.

#10 FSU vs #14 Miami
The Hurricanes have quietly put together a fantastic postseason resume so far this season. The one thing that Miami lacks is a huge road series win over a really good opponent…that could end this weekend against rival Florida State.

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These is fighting words right here. GatorTailgating is about to put up this billboard just outside Tallahassee, the heart of FSU Seminole country. The site, who has been raising money to put up the billboard all year, says they’ve already raised enough to put the billboard up there for 1 month and hope to raise enough to leave it up for six.

Thinking about putting up a billboard near your rivals school…it’ll only cost you $800 to $5,000 a month, probs the same amount you and your friends spent on weed and liquor.

via Orlando Sentinel

Usually we don’t cover baseballs midweek games because they tend to suck, but this week there were a couple of top 25 crosstown rivalry matchups and a handful of good games so here is your Mid Week College Baseball Recap.

#1 Virginia falls to #26 Virginia Military Institute 12-3: This might be the shocker of the season thus far. The VMI Keydets, who are ranked higher than they’ve been in school history, laid the wood on Virginia last night and handed them their worst loss in 2 years. The 15 hits and 12 runs VMI put on the Cavaliers were the most they allowed all season.

Jacksonville upsets #6 FSU 10-8: A day after winning a pitching duel Tuesday night against rival #9 Florida 3-2, FSU turns around and loses to their neighbor an unranked Jacksonville team 10-8 last night. The game was won/lost in the final two innings where the Dolphins scored 8 runs, 5 in the 8th and 3 in the 9th to snap FSU’s 5 game win streak.

#12 Louisville edges #22 Western Kentucky 7-6: In a game that saw 4 lead changes, a solo HR in the top of the 9th by Cardinal RF Stewart Ijames proved to be the difference.

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There have been a quite a few teams that have had games and banners taken away by the NCAA for breaking the rules lately. There was Memphis Basketball, Florida State Football, and Alabama Football most recently. In each of these cases the schools appealed the NCAA ruling and each time the school lost their appeals in bout 100,000 ways.

The University of Alabama athletics department spent $188,442.62 for a law firm to defend the university in its NCAA major infractions case. While Florida State spent over $172,000 to try to get back a dozen of Bobby Bowden’s wins. A hell of a lot of money to pay just for a W. And just where do the schools get this money…in FSU’s case $70,000 came from boosters’ with the other $102,000 and change coming from tax dollars.

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Here is the newly released Baseball standings and Virginia is once again in the #1 spot. And this week they earned it with a 3 series game sweep of #3 ranked Florida State this weekend, which included one game where they rallied to score 6 runs in the 9th to win it 9-8. But they can’t rest because coming up next week a showdown with #9 Clemson.

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ESPN Top 25 – Great Recap Of Last Weeks Games