Troy kept its season alive on Sunday, beating Ole Miss 12-8 at the College World Series, and Texas followed Monday with a 14-2 win over Alabama that pushed the MCWS brackets deeper into elimination mode. Adrian Rodriguez drove the Texas result, going 5-for-5 with seven RBIs and becoming the third-ever player to hit for the cycle at the College World Series.
That is why the MCWS brackets are the focus now: in a double-elimination tournament, one loss sends a team to the edge and a second ends the run. The remaining College World Series games will air on, and the updated bracket now shows Troy and Texas still in contention while Ole Miss is out after becoming the first team eliminated in the related bracket run.
Troy did its part with a burst that changed the game in the middle innings. Jabe Boroff delivered his 21st RBI of the postseason and put Troy ahead 8-6 in the seventh inning, while Sean Darnell finished 3-for-3 with four RBIs and Jimmy Janicki went 2-of-5 with a home run, his second of the College World Series. The win mattered because Troy entered unseeded, and a team with that profile does not get many chances to survive this deep into the event.
Texas, seeded No. 6, turned Monday into a mismatch before Alabama could settle in. Rodriguez was the difference from start to finish, and his five-hit night with seven RBIs gave Texas the kind of offensive surge that leaves little doubt about where it stands in the bracket. Alabama, seeded No. 7, was knocked back hard, while the Longhorns kept alive the possibility of extending the SEC's streak of national championships.
The friction in the bracket is simple: Ole Miss is already gone, Troy is still fighting, and Texas has moved on, but the next elimination will come from the tournament structure, not from the last box score alone. With the updated College World Series bracket still in motion, the remaining field now has to survive one more round of pressure before the path to the title becomes clear.
