What's on the line for Mississippi State in regular season finale?

The Bulldogs will host Georgia on Sunday in the final match before the top 10 SEC teams head to the championship tournament in Florida.

Mississippi State Centerfielder Zoe Main (#7), Mississippi State Forward Kyra Taylor (#3) and Mississippi State Midfielder Ally Perry (#5) during the match between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Mississippi State Bulldogs at the Alabama Soccer Stadium in Tuscaloosa, AL. | Mississippi State Athletics

Mississippi State’s soccer team has just one game left in the regular season before it heads to Pensacola, Fla. for the SEC Tournament.

The Bulldogs already have their berth in the tournament secured, but there’s still some things left to play for Sunday when it they host No. 19 Georgia.

The biggest thing Mississippi State is playing for is seeding in the conference tournament. The top 12 teams in the conference standings will participate in the single-elimination tournament starting November 2.

The top four teams in the standings will receive a first-round bye and, right now, the Bulldogs are fifth in the standings with 16 points. Mississippi State can’t reach Arkansas with its 20 points at the top of the standings. The Bulldogs opponent on Sunday, the SEC’s other Bulldogs, is third with 18 points.

With a win against Georgia, Mississippi State would have 19 points and up one spot ahead of Georgia. If Vanderbilt loses to South Carolina this week, the Commodores would win the tiebreaker by virtue of their head-to-head win last week against Mississippi State.

Also, Tennessee is hosting Alabama and the result of that match will impact where the Bulldogs land in the final conference standings. But the highest they can finish is in third place, which would give them a first-round bye.

However, based on recent results, nothing is guaranteed for the Bulldogs.

Last Sunday’s 1-0 win against Alabama ended a three-game losing streak for Mississippi State that saw opponents outscore the Bulldogs 11-4.

One of those losses was without Ally Perry, Mississippi State’s captain and leading goal-scorer, on the pitch. The Bulldogs will have to make do without another key player against Georgia, but for different reasons.

Adia Symmonds was called up to the U.S. Soccer U-18/U-19 Women's National Team Training Camp on Oct. 20-29 in Setubal, Portugal. She’ll miss the finale against Georgia, but should be back with the team in time for the SEC Tournament.

Sunday’s match against Georgia is scheduled to kickoff at 2 p.m. on SECN+. All but one of the final SEC matches of the regular season will be played at the time. The only other one, Kentucky at Texas A&M, will start at 4 p.m.

SEC Standings

1. Arkansas 20
2. Vanderbilt 19
3. Georgia 18
4. Tennessee 17
5. Mississippi State 16
6. South Carolina 16
7. Kentucky 15
8. LSU 15
9. Alabama 12
10. Oklahoma 12
11. Florida 11
12. Auburn 8
13. Texas A&M 8
14. Missouri 4
15. Ole Miss 3
16. Texas 3

United Soccer Coaches Poll

1. Notre Dame 12-0-1
2. Stanford 13-1-1
3. Virginia 10-1-3
4. Memphis 13-0-2
5. Texas Tech 12-1-2
6. Arkansas 8-3-4
7. Duke 9-3-1
8. Washington 11-1-5
9. TCU 12-2-1
10. Vanderbilt 12-3-1
11. Florida State 8-2-3
12. Georgetown 12-2-2
13. Michigan State 9-3-5
14. Tennessee 11-2-3
15. Iowa 10-3-4
16. Baylor 11-2-2
17. South Carolina 10-2-5
18. UCLA 10-4-2
19. Xavier 12-2-2
T20. Wisconsin 12-4-1
T20. Louisville 11-3-2
22. Colorado11-2-2
23. North Carolina 10-5-0
24. West Virginia 10-2-3
25. Mississippi State 10-4-1

TopDrawerSoccer Top 25 Rankings

1. Notre Dame 12-0-1
2. Stanford 13-1-1
3. Texas Tech 12-1-2
4. Memphis 12-0-2
5. Washington 11-1-5
6. Virginia 10-1-3
7. Colorado 11-2-3
8. TCU 12-2-1
9. Florida State 8-2-3
10. Baylor 11-2-2
11. Duke 9-3-1
12. Tennessee 11-2-3
13. UCLA 10-4-2
14. Georgetown 12-2-2
15. Xavier 12-2-2
16. Louisville 11-3-2
17. Arkansas 8-3-4
18. North Carolina 10-5-0
19. Vanderbilt 12-3-1
20. Ohio State 8-2-6
21. California 8-2-8
22. West Virginia 10-2-3
23. Dayton 11-3-2
24. Iowa 10-3-4
25. Michigan State 9-3-5