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Tallahassee, Fla. • With a pair of in-state rivalries in the NCAA baseball tournament's super regional round, the way the bracket is seeded along with regional pairings have once again been a source of debate.

Adding more fuel to it this year is that both series are rematches. No. 4 seed Texas A&M hosts TCU beginning on Friday while Florida State is at top-seeded Florida starting on Saturday. All super regional series are best-of-three with the winner advancing to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.

Ron Prettyman, who oversees the College World Series as the NCAA's managing director of championships and alliances, said the matchups make for great television and attendance.

"I can understand why people would be concerned, but I also will say that those are terrific rivalries," he said. "There is so much pride in all those schools you just mentioned that it really makes for an outstanding super regional event."

Since the NCAA added super regionals in 1999, 26 of the 144 matchups have been between in-state rivals (18.1 percent). There have been only three years where there hasn't been one with the last time being 2012.

There are an increasing number of baseball coaches though who believe the NCAA is putting too much of an emphasis on geography instead of national competitive balance. If the baseball committee gone with RPI as the determining factor, Florida State would be facing Texas A&M while TCU would be matched up with Louisville.

Adding to the frustration is that softball has seeded the top 16 teams since 2005 — when it added super regionals — while baseball continues to seed only the top eight.

Prettyman said expanded seeding is part of the ongoing discussions with the NCAA Baseball Committee. For some, the move can't come soon enough.

"I think it would be something that could and will be worked out in my lifetime," Florida State manager Mike Martin said. "If it's good for one sport, why is it not good for another that plays with a bat and a ball?"

Florida State and Florida are facing each other in a super regional for the third time, which ties them with Cal State Fullerton-UCLA for the most frequent in-state matchup. The Gators, who won last year, also took all three regular season games this year.

The Aggies and Horned Frogs haven't met in the regular season since 2012. TCU took last year's super regional and won in three games but this time they have to go on the road to College Station, Texas.

TCU manager Jim Schlossnagle was not surprised about the Lone Star rematch, especially when he saw that the Aggies were seeded. However, he is also looking forward to expanded seeding.

"Our sport has grown enough and the College World Series makes enough money that we deserve to have it seeded as far down as it can go," Schlossnagle said.

Florida's Kevin O'Sullivan has a seeding idea that goes a couple steps further. Not only does he want to see it expanded to 16 teams, but he would love to see teams reseeded going into super regionals and the CWS.

Under O'Sullivan's proposal, Florida would be facing Boston College this weekend.

"If you're trying to reward the teams that have built up the best resumes and have played 60, 62, 65 games, and reward them for their body of work. I don't see anything wrong with reseeding. I think it's probably the best thing to do," O'Sullivan said.

In softball, expanded seeding results in more in-season rematches against conference rivals. This year there were two in-conference super regional matchups — Florida-Georgia and Oregon-UCLA — for the right to advance to the Women's College World Series.

Having rematches though has its share of positives and negatives.

"The positive is we don't have to scramble for scouting reports. Neither do they. The negative is they know us and we know them," O'Sullivan said. "If we're matched up against somebody that we hadn't played in our schedule or that we're not familiar with, there's a little bit of unknown there."

Associated Press sports writers Eric Olson in Omaha, Nebraska, and Mark Long in Gainesville, Florida, contributed to this story. Super Regionals glance

All Times MDT

(Best-of-3)

x-if necessary

Host school is Game 1 home team; visiting school is Game 2 home team; coin flip determines Game 3 home team

At A-Rod Park at Mark Light Field

Coral Gables, Fla.

Friday: Boston College (34-20) at Miami (48-11), 3 p.m.

Saturday: Boston College vs. Miami, 10 a.m.

x-Sunday: Boston College vs. Miami, 10 a.m.

At Dudy Noble Field

Starkville, Miss.

Friday: Arizona (42-21) at Mississippi State (44-16-1), 4 p.m.

Saturday: Arizona vs. Mississippi State, 4 p.m.

x-Sunday: Arizona vs. Mississippi State, 4 p.m.

At Rip Griffin Park

Lubbock, Texas

Friday: East Carolina (37-21-1) at Texas Tech (45-17), 6 p.m.

Saturday: East Carolina vs. Texas Tech, 1 p.m.

x-Sunday: East Carolina vs. Texas Tech, 1 p.m.

At Olsen Field

College Station, Texas

Friday: TCU (45-15) at Texas A&M (48-14), 7 p.m.

Saturday: TCU vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

x-Sunday: TCU vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

At Founders Park

Columbia, S.C.

Saturday: Oklahoma State (39-20) at South Carolina (46-16), 1 p.m.

Sunday: Oklahoma State vs. South Carolina, 1 p.m.

x-Monday: Oklahoma State vs. South Carolina, TBA

At Jim Patterson Stadium

Louisville, Ky.

Saturday: UC Santa Barbara (40-18-1) at No. 2 Louisville (50-12), 10 a.m.

Sunday: UC Santa Barbara vs. Louisville, 10 a.m.

x-Monday: UC Santa Barbara vs. Louisville, TBA

At Alfred A. McKethan Stadium

Gainesville, Fla.

Saturday: Florida State (40-20) at Florida (50-13), 4 p.m.

Sunday: Florida State vs. Florida, 6 p.m.

x-Monday: Florida State vs. Florida, TBA

At Alex Box Stadium

Baton Rouge, La.

Saturday: Coastal Carolina (47-16) at LSU (45-19), 7 p.m.

Sunday: Coastal Carolina vs. LSU, 7 p.m.

x-Monday: Coastal Carolina vs. LSU, TBA

Monday games will start at 11 a.m., 2 and 5 p.m.