Day 2 is down and out, as are 16 of the 64 teams that started this weekend. With another chunk of teams expected to be ousted from the brackets Sunday, let's take a quick look back at what we learned from Saturday's action.

The Hot List

1. A lot of brackets got busted.
Some teams expected to advance to the super regional round -- Oklahoma, Fresno State, Oklahoma State and Southern Miss -- were sent packing. Other top seeds were sent down to the loser's brackets in stunning fashion, like Texas, Fullerton, TCU and Rice. They'll join No. 1 seeds UCLA, Georgia Tech and Arkansas as teams that will have to fight for three wins to advance to next weekend.

2. The mid-majors are better than we thought.
Oh c'mon. If you aren't on the mid-major peace train, turn in your red, white and blue citizenship. I mean, if I would've told you that Texas would have Taylor Jungmann and TCU would have Matt Purke on the hill and both would lose winner's bracket games to Kent State and Dallas Baptist, would you have taken that action? Also, Maine shut down a potent FIU team, Oral Roberts ousted big-brother Oklahoma and Illinois eliminated Big 12 member Kansas State.

3. The pairing of rivals in the Big Dance ramps up the intensity level 3,000 percent.
Usually the college baseball community cries foul when rival teams are paired against each other year after year. But in front of an energized McKethan Stadium crowd, Florida took down Miami with an unlikely ninth-inning rally that involved a botched groundout, a balk and a passed ball before Nolan Fontana's game-winning hit. Stanford and Fullerton have split the past two years in the NCAA tournament. On Saturday, a solo home run by Stephen Piscotty, a controversial catch and a white-knuckle finish sends the Cardinal to the title round.

4. This was one of the worst days on the diamond for the state of Oklahoma.
Both the Sooners and the Cowboys were eliminated, by Oral Roberts and Belmont, respectively. And yes, I didn't stutter, the Eagles and the Bruins. What's worse? The OU and OSU softball teams were also eliminated in the Women's College World Series in, of all places, Oklahoma City. Ouch.

5. The proud state of Texas was nearly as bad.
The No. 1s here caught a giant burr in the saddle for their plans to Omaha. TCU got bumped off by Dallas Baptist, Rice was edged by Baylor and, in a nearly unthinkable development, Texas lost to a mid-major with Taylor Jungmann on the mound. (What?) All three teams will now have to win three games in 30 hours to advance, leaving busted brackets littering the landscape.

Regional superlatives

Who is sitting pretty: Most of the teams that won winner's bracket games are in good shape, but there are a few that you might as well etch in stone for the super regionals: Vanderbilt, Florida State, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia should cruise without much sweat on the brow.

The 1-seed that is really behind the 8-ball: Cal State Fullerton. The Titans have to be emotionally drained after getting robbed in Saturday's loss to Stanford. Plus, they also burned through ace Noe Ramirez and Sunday starter Brett Pill and still have to take down a hot-hitting Illinois team and beat the suddenly confident Cardinal, who are notorious road warriors. Doable, but won't be easy.

Tour de force: Kent State. Man alive. Taylor Jungmann came in at 13-0 and with an ERA of 0.95. But the Golden Flashes (whose bandwagon I've been on all season) saddled him with seven earned runs and eight hits, including a devastating grand slam by catcher David Lyon in the pivotal sixth inning to help Kent State beat the No. 7 national seed.

Tour de force II: North Carolina pitching. The Tarheels' no-name arms corps has been on absolute lock-down mode. On Saturday, the Heels' Patrick Johnson went eight innings, striking out 11 and holding James Madison to three hits in the 14-0 skunking. In two games so far, UNC has yet to allow a run. And don't forget, the Dukes came into this game with an .808 slugging percentage, tops in the country.

Best conference performance: The Pac-10. After a forgettable opening day, the occidental power conference returned to form, going 6-0 on Saturday, including having Arizona State, Oregon State and Stanford all going into Sunday at 2-0.

Worst conference performance: The Big 12. Went 2-and-4 on the day with the aforementioned Sooners and Cowboys going belly up and K-State joining them in winlessland. On the plus side, Baylor and Texas A&M advanced to the title round on Sunday with 2-0 marks.

Eric Sorenson, who runs College Baseball Today, and Walter Villa are regular contributors to ESPN's college baseball coverage. Follow Eric on Twitter: @stitch_head

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