ATHENS — Georgia baseball has not been shy about its College World Series aspirations.

After all, the Bulldogs were just one game away from making their first trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., last year, and that was in Year One of coach Wes Johnson.

Year Two has been better in many respects, but the personality of the team has changed so much that neither Johnson nor his players are too much into comparing the Bulldogs’ team from last year to this year.

“I don’t think it’s fair to compare this year’s team and last year’s team,” said Harry Hunter, one of Georgia’s team captains.

“We hope to just continue to pay our best baseball down the stretch.”

The Bulldogs (42-15) have the No. 2 RPI ranking in the nation and will host an NCAA Regional later this week at Foley Field and a best-of-three Super Regional series should they advance out of that.

The NCAA Baseball Tournament pairings will be announced at noon on Monday (ESPN2/ESPNU), with UGA projected to be among the top eight teams.

Both Baseball America and D1 Baseball project the Bulldogs will be the No. 5 seed in the tournament.

If that is the case, and UGA wins its regional, it would next face the winner of the No. 12 national seed’s regional.

Baseball America projects the 12 seed to be Oregon, while D1 Baseball projects it to be Florida State.

UGA has never played the Ducks in baseball.

It’s worth noting D1 Baseball projects Florida to be in the Seminoles regional, which could set up a rivalry series for Georgia should the Gators pull an upset.

The Bulldogs -- who are 29-4 at home -- swept Florida in Gainesville this season, winning 8-7, 17-2 and then by run-rule, 15-4.

The Seminoles, meanwhile, famously upset a No. 7-seeded UGA team at Foley Field in 2019, shocking the Dawgs 12-3 and 10-1.

Georgia has not faced Florida State since then.

UGA coach Wes Johnson just wants to see his team playing its best baseball, regardless of who the Bulldogs are facing.

Johnson, like Hunter, isn’t real big on comparing this season’s team to last year’s, which was a No. 8 seed that beat Georgia Tech in the NCAA regional title game before falling to North Carolina State in a thre-game series.

Still, Johnson acknowledges there are some differences between this year’s team and last year’s team.

“The biggest difference is we can pitch a little better,” said Johnson, whose program has lowered its staff ERA from 5.71 last season to 4.83 this year. “We’re going to have to figure out the offense piece.

“Good teams find a way to grind it out and get off some better swings than we did … .we’re going to have to figure that piece out.”

The Bulldogs lead the nation with 133 home runs, but the team is hitting .286 collectively -- down from .303 last year with Golden Spikes winner Charlie Condon leading the way with an eye-popping .433 average.

Georgia has had time to work on it, as the team practiced through the weekend after getting eliminated from the SEC baseball tournament last Wednesday.

The team will meet to watch the selection show on Monday.