Tennessee baseball enters the final weekend of the regular season in danger of losing out on a Regional host in the postseason.

The No. 17 Vols (40-13, 14-12 SEC) have lost four-straight series and five of their last six after dropping two of three to Vanderbilt at home last weekend and a road series at No. 9 Arkansas looms this weekend.

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Tennessee, which has hosted both Regional and Super Regional games at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in three of the last four years on its way to three College World Series appearances in that span, needs a series win over the Razorbacks (41-11, 18-9) and potentially a strong showing in Hoover to host again.

At least that’s what the latest Field of 64 projections from D1Baseball indicate.

The outlet previously had the Vols hosting as the No. 9 national seed, but going on the road for Super Regionals.

Now, it has Tennessee playing in the Morgantown, West Virginia Regional and its path to the CWS going outside of Knoxville.

The Regional includes host and No. 16 national seed West Virginia, Virginia and Holy Cross.

The Region is paired with the Austin, Texas Super Regional, hosted by No. 1 national seed Texas.

The Vols hope to reverse their fortunes at Arkansas after being plagued by errors and base-running miscues during their downturn.

Tennessee will be going up against a Razorbacks team that it is 1-9 against under Tony Vitello, including a series-sweeping loss in its last visit to Fayetteville in 2023.

“Tennessee, after losing yet another SEC series over the weekend, drops out of the Top 16 mix,” the D1Baseball staff wrote. “Though it could get right back into the mix with a road series win over Arkansas.”

Arkansas lost three-straight series to Georgia, Texas A&M and Florida in April, but turned around to pull off the sweep of Texas two weeks ago.

The Razorbacks are coming off a series loss at LSU, but have been dominant at Baum-Walker Stadium this season, entering the final weekend with a 30-3 mark on their home turf.

The Vols have had some success on the road. Their last series win was at Ole Miss last month, and they have road series triumphs of Alabama and struggling South Carolina.

A successful weekend in Arkansas would further bolster Tennessee’s resume.

“It’ll be loud. Good baseball fans that know the game, but also they’ll be loud,” Vitello said. “It’ll be a different style of loud. I mean, everyone by now knows the trip to Oxford had a unique flavor to it this year. And then, you know, a couple other places we went where it was really loud, and then they’ll be well coached.

“They’re going to play hard, and he (Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn) knows what he’s doing on gameday.”

The Vols are one of 13 SEC teams that D1Baseball projects to make the postseason, with seven teams listed as top 16 national seeds.

The SEC Tournament is set to begin at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama May 20-25.

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