The race for the Southeastern Conference baseball championship is coming down to one final, wild weekend.

Six teams are still alive not just for the regular-season title, but one of the precious top four seeds in next week’s SEC Tournament as the final weekend gets under way Thursday night.

Some of the six will knock each other off. Florida (43-9, 18-8 SEC) plays at LSU (37-16, 17-10), and Ole Miss (39-14, 17-10) travels to West Division leader Texas A&M (39-12, 18-9). Others are hoping to slide up the ladder while others fall down, and even the league’s bottom feeders can play their way in or out.

The top four teams get first-round byes in the SEC Tournament, which begins Tuesday morning in Hoover, Ala. More importantly, they avoid the single-elimination round and jump straight into the double-elimination portion of the bracket.

“Never had an SEC championship here at A&M and we will be looking to do that this weekend,” Texas A&M outfielder Nick Banks said in a postgame press conference after the Aggies lost 5-0 to Sam Houston State on Tuesday night. “We are going to have to play as a team first. Take it one step at a time and the rest will take care of itself.”

The two key series in the league this weekend are Florida-LSU and Ole Miss-Texas A&M. The winner of each is almost assured a precious first-round bye and should be in the mix for the No. 1 overall seed when the dust settles.

Lurking just behind those teams are Mississippi State (37-14-1, 18-9) and South Carolina (39-13, 17-9), who play Arkansas (26-26, 7-20) and Alabama (31-21, 15-12), respectively.

Either the Bulldogs or Gamecocks could slide into the No. 1 slot with a series sweep, or drop out of the top four entirely if they lose the series.

Although nine of the 12 berths in the SEC Tournament have been secured, and Georgia can clinch one with one more win, nearly everyone in the conference has something to play for this weekend.

The teams in the middle, like Alabama and Vanderbilt (38-15, 15-12), will jockey for seeding. The teams at the bottom — Arkansas, Auburn, Tennessee and Missouri — are fighting to stay alive.

Twelve of the 14 teams in the conference will make the tournament, and none have officially been eliminated yet.

In the other series this weekend, Missouri is at Kentucky; Auburn is at Vanderbilt; and Tennessee plays at Georgia.